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Americans retiring to Vietnam
Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:52 pm
LA Times
My guess is that all those decades of 'Retire Cheap in Latin America' may not be going so well these days.
Thoughts?
My guess is that all those decades of 'Retire Cheap in Latin America' may not be going so well these days.
Thoughts?
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Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:54 pm to Zach
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Thoughts?
Sucky sucky long time
Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:54 pm to Zach
Yellow fever
Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:55 pm to Zach
It’s cheap and tropical and has a much lower crime rate, it’s a no brainer to me
Posted on 12/26/19 at 1:58 pm to Zach
Vietnam was still a shithole when I went there.
I went there a few times between 1995 and 98. People still shite in the street and poverty was overwhelming
I went there a few times between 1995 and 98. People still shite in the street and poverty was overwhelming
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:03 pm to Zach
Tons of asian girls that have white fever there. They go nuts over getting a white dude's attention. It's an epidemic.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:09 pm to Zach
I work with guy and he is retiring to the Philippines
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:09 pm to Zach
Looks like we're gonna win the Vietnam War by an immigration invasion like Mexico is going to win the Mexican-American War.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:14 pm to Zach
My wife is Chinese but was born and raised in Indonesia. She's been in the states for 16 years (we just got married a month ago) now but kept her house in Indo. She wanted to sell it but I told her to hold onto it because we may retire there. It's a nice place in a prominent are and she has a maid that has lived there taking care of it for the past 16 years. We are visiting it soon to decide if it is a possibility.
I can live like a king in a beautiful country for next to nothing.
I can live like a king in a beautiful country for next to nothing.
This post was edited on 12/26/19 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:14 pm to Zach
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The family lives in a 20th-floor condominium overlooking the Saigon River and the sprawling city beyond. They bought the four-bedroom, 3½-bathroom unit, measuring about 1,840 square feet along with a separate veranda, for about $250,000 in 2011.
While cheap compared to California that's not exactly out of the norm for some cheaper residential markets in the U.S.
You could probably get a similar deal here where I live.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:14 pm to Zach
Bone spur surgery is a lot cheaper in Vietnam than it is in the US nowadays.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:19 pm to Zach
That sure not in my future. I have had requests from other Nam vets to go back and visit the areas we were deployed back in 68-69. These are not your normal tourist areas and are somewhat remote. I wavered once but didn't go through with it...too many bad thoughts and demons involved. After all, why would I want to go back to a country were I lost some of the greatest guys you would ever want to be around? I certainly wouldn't ever want to live there!
Posted on 12/26/19 at 2:22 pm to Zach
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Thoughts
Ironic
Posted on 12/26/19 at 3:41 pm to Zach
Australian's beat them to it. Know a retired FedEx Capt who made a pit stop there. Saigon was too crowded, crappy infrastructure. He moved on to Pattaya.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 3:55 pm to Zach
"Monthly expenses here rarely exceed $2,000, even to live in a large unit like Rockhold’s, including the help of a cook and a cleaner."
That's not too bad.
That's not too bad.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 4:16 pm to Zach
Boomers and Asian women, a pairing as old as time
Posted on 12/26/19 at 4:58 pm to Zach
It is very hot there.
There are insects they don’t have names for yet.
There are insects they don’t have names for yet.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 5:28 pm to Zach
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Thoughts
I enjoy my weapons to much.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 6:06 pm to Zach
One of my co-workers was born in Vietnam and came here to the US at a very young age.
She goes back every 3 years for a couple of weeks, in the summer. She went back this summer so I got to hear all about it.
She said the big cities are very nice, not very expensive, and there is a ton of insane poverty in the rural areas. She said the only time they had a/c was in the hotel they stayed in, near the airport, the day they arrived and the night before they left. But, the people there are used to the tropical heat.
I'm not sure what to make of the retireees who take their pensions and social security dollars and spend them overseas. It's not helping our economy, but they earned the money, and if they think they can have a better standard of living there... then maybe we have something wrong here.
She goes back every 3 years for a couple of weeks, in the summer. She went back this summer so I got to hear all about it.
She said the big cities are very nice, not very expensive, and there is a ton of insane poverty in the rural areas. She said the only time they had a/c was in the hotel they stayed in, near the airport, the day they arrived and the night before they left. But, the people there are used to the tropical heat.
I'm not sure what to make of the retireees who take their pensions and social security dollars and spend them overseas. It's not helping our economy, but they earned the money, and if they think they can have a better standard of living there... then maybe we have something wrong here.
Posted on 12/26/19 at 6:22 pm to Zach
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My guess is that all those decades of 'Retire Cheap in Latin America' may not be going so well these days.
Yeah about two months ago my wife and I talked to a nurse at an assisted living facility. She said she loved her job but was going to retire soon in Vietnam. Without saying too much about it, it seems the affordable retirement option for her. Talk about getting away from the rat race!
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