The City of Love: Uncovering April's Dipolog City Romance

Whether you are the balikbayan coming home to a forgotten promise, the traveler looking for a temporary escape that becomes permanent, or the student saying goodbye to a childhood love—Dipolog in April offers you a narrative arc.

April is graduation month. Dipolog is home to Jose Rizal Memorial State University and several colleges. Every April, thousands of fresh graduates face the "Dipolog Crossroads"—stay in the laid-back city of cocoa and vinegar production, or leave for Cebu or Manila? This creates the most heartbreaking relationship trope: The April Goodbye .

High school seniors in Dipolog City know that by June, they will be scattered across Ipil, Zamboanga, or Manila for college.