Posted on 12/26/2019 10:47:33 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
VN, just like the Caribbean islands and Mexico are ok until the third-world dictator decides you are not welcome and kicks you out while keeping your bank account.
Yep.
1) In any country the top 20% have it good, while the bottom 80% struggle. It's normal to be in the 80% category and nothing to be ashamed about. Some retired people though can instantly jump into the top 20% simply by moving to the right country.
2) USA women. Many are seriously messed up in the head by years of leftist media in all its forms, TV, books, movies, news, porn, college indoctrination. Something like 25% of college women trade sex for money either while in college or after to pay off their subprime student loans. Yeah, fun for all, but these women are ruined and are no longer long term relationship material.
3) Expats can always come back.
A war-torn place to avoid in the 1960s, is now a retirement mecca for what could very well become a war-torn place in 2020.
I have read over the years the city being renamed Ho Chi Minh and that a person there had better remember/know that.
That for a native, saying Saigon would get that person sent back to the camps.
“The locals were always pleasant and if you knew a few words of Vietnamese you moved way up in the world.”
“If you want people to like you, you have only to spend a little money.” Ernest Hemingway
(In fairness to the Vietnamese E.H. was discussing the French.)
I suppose one could live in Cook county for a while to get used to living under a communist form of government. With the exception of the language, the transition from Chicago to Vietnam would be eased by the warmer climate and reduced level of street violence and crime.
I visited Vietnam last year myself with my husband and my son/ his wife who were living in Thailand for a few months. It had never been on my "bucket list" but I absolutely LOVED it. It is a beautiful country with fantastic food and very nice people. I couldn't get over how cheap it was. My son and his wife liked Hanoi so much they moved there for a month before returning to the states.
It’s a Long
Flight,
Ain’t Nobody
Got time
For That!
I don’t speak Vietnamese so can’t judge the power-relationships and politics between people easily. But I do hear “Saigon” used regularly among people I am with who are translating my words, or discussing a topic I am familiar.
I hope they’re Democrats.
Thanks for your comments.
I’m spending next month traveling Vietnam and Cambodia from North to South, visiting every major city. This is my first trip there.
I read that the expat population in Cheng Mai in Northern Thailand is 40,000 in a 200K population city.
I’d go and visit every food stall.
For $3K a month you can actually live fairly decently in the US, too.
Christians I know have had to leave Turkey.
Bye, bye anybody miss him?
Boocoo dinky dow. (Beaucoup din cai dau).
Merry Christmas.
5.56mm
I do not speak Vietnamese. Will that be a problem?
Many surprisingly powerful moments...almost all of them connected to the suffering so many of our guys experienced there.
I wouldn't live in Vietnam..or anywhere in SE Asia...if you paid me.
You really, really crazy! Ha,ha.
With the exception of the language,
Guessing? The English spoken in Vietnam today would be easier understood than the English/ebonics spoken in much of Chicago.
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