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Its gotten a bit lower from what i've been told, 600 to about 1000 is the range this is MOSTLY int eh captial though. Smaller towns, you're going to want to have some money already saved or coming in because the pay is going to be very low or almost zero if your on a volunteer level. For Laos the capital is the best bet hands down

Ah yeah, personally i avoided most the western areas, District 1, 2, 3, and 7. If i did have to move some where in these areas District 3 was my go too

That subway, ha ha That whole project is a massive joke i use with my gov friends. I came in start of 2015, and they were "Mid-done' 2 years later JPN realized money was being spent on yellow paint and new cars and pulled out...Meanwhile 10 years later "We just built our first 3 dead end underground entrances That subway is a lost cause

Best as in it was free or best as in AI injected it and i was on my way out to the gym and didn't review it first ha ha I does what i do :) :)

Upon review you were not dancing alone - I stand corrected - still a terrible yada yada song 😩

It's an amazing name i'd say :)

Is it? Man i've meet so many Scottish people in SE Asia cannot understand most, and when beer gets invovled game over But with that being said, some of the funnest people to be around when abroad hands down They are native though thats good to know,, some places around there are not i was told i never know though.

On a side note, still putting off my app development.. do you know Javascript by chance?

Hey nice !

Yeah, i used to teach Javascript and pascal at Uni in Saigon area long long ago

@@EndlessTravels DM'ed you

Ahh that was from you, I saw that email and was so confused. It sounded like we wer talking for some time on how it started. I finally on land and checking comments and now i get it, let me check it out and i'll get back to you in a day :)

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Very much so, and the deeper you get into the culture the inner family discrimination gets even deeper. Family rivalry is a real thing in the culture. Reminds me of a good friend, her uncle sends her son to Canada for international school, the man abuses everyone around him verbally and emtionally being family or not based on his self proclaimed status of his son..its crazy

Cambodia, outside of Saigon is the typical. If your in the north, most just goto Laos for a border run by bus. With Visas for Thailand check their website, Thailand makes it very easy to get things done online, you'll want to reach out to a lawyer or help if your doing a long term Investment or elite visa past that you can do it all online easily, same with Vietnam and Cambodia

This run, it was a full on visa run - I came back with a new 30 day one

Yeah for sure, places like Saigon have many western things you can buy IN Hanoi such things check out baby stores, i've seen a lot of these there If your moving out of these major cities, def stock up, your not going to easily find these things in places like Da Lat or sapa

The vibe is definitely different here People don't honk like dorks here like before - Maybe its a Dis 2 thang, ha But like it, glad i moved to Hanoi to focus on work i'd get nothing done here - way to much fun here to have

Oh man you’d love Thailand or japans store markets then they are full on street market status without the honking and dirty meat on the ground I mostly ate 711 while in Thailand for sure

@@EndlessTravels Sure, we went uber-tourist and stayed by Terminal 21 in Bangkok, but it was the daily 7-11 runs which a must. Well, Terminal 21 did offer cheap vegetarian food. Man, wish I was there now...

OHh Pattaya mall yeah with the airplane going though it? Man i haven't heard that name in so long. Yeah that is a good area. THat area is funny though with 7-11 there are 3 of them that are all 100m apart i did a photo of all 3 of them behind me in a post long ago The one farthest from 21 was the best, it had a massive court yard...yeah wish i was there now...Ohh wait 2 more days :) LFG!

check my link i have on in there you can do online tahts accepted here and you can do it online They'll also send you a physical copy as well as a digital one when you finish

Sure it will, the world will just need to learn Vietnamese and forget how to drive properly

OHH man you eat hot dogs your wildly crazy. There is this girl on youtube that has a short that shows how America makes them..it is BADDD..like real bad, now image how VN and CN do it ha ha Yeah the Dog meat is funny, my favorite part of it is pointing it out to locals watching them get wildly angery or blaming the opposide (It's the HCMC people OR its the HANOI people) than showing them pictures and they are like UMMMM....well thats rare Than i show them like 30 more on the same road....."A rare street or a rarity to NOT find one?" ha Yeah Panama is looking more safer lately and they also removing a lot of the Chinese CCP stuff as well i really thinking the Visa and long term stay is an ideal move that i really really really..errr really about to jump on ^ GLad you and yoru wife are still doing good out here

@@EndlessTravels Clean criminal record, proof of $1K monthly income, some other legal docs, and Panama is yours...

1k a month? Seriously? That is massivly lower than most of SE Asia's long term nomad visas and the DTV..Thats crazy....Hmmmm PH or Panama..you making this an easy decision minus that 24 hour flight ><

@@EndlessTravels I was referring to the Pensionado Visa(most likely entertained by mid age dudes like me). I do believe there is a Panama Digital Nomad Visa which requires $36K annual earnings.

Ahh yeah yeah i got ya on that. I was looking at a few options in there. The idea as Americans we get a long VOA is really nice. I still NOT sure about it there just yet but that long exemption idea gets me some time to figure it out... Thanks for the visa idea though i honestly never saw it as an option until i looked for it i was more NOMAD focused but i think that is a locke dmind set due to living in Asia so long, in South America we def have different and some what better options :)

Yeah the food getting boring is a HUGE one for me, you learn after about 3 or 4 months of traveling outside of tourist foods almost eveyrthing is the same 3 things minus the rarity things here and there and minority food I legit eat damn near vegan and eggs almost the entire time in VN at this point..if i ahve to eat might as well eat to build myself better because eveyrthing else kind of is lame or well poorly made

Yes, and when the pancreas can rest the Insulin is low to zero which is a MASSIVE health benefit. It was crazy to me how DEEP i had to research to find basic facts that modern medical, TV, and food companies hide. My biggest shock and fear with snacking well rather wake up call was when i found out about potato chips, did you konw a company with a D in it's name refines it's chips up to 16 times with bleach and other chemicals, but the Nut. facts only show whats in the bag of chips on the final refindment process, and this is some how LEGAL..CRAZY man...

@@EndlessTravels 😲

ha, pretty much for ever forward for sure

I find it depends on more of were you find her in ether spot. Personally i don't think one spot is better than another - Guys though be stuck in those tourist areas in major cities finding some hmmm not so good things. Country side depends, not all country girls are good...ha 2 years living in many country areas i started to hear and see a lot of wild sh** people would do for money

@@EndlessTravels thanks, I thought maybe saigon girls are to focus on money

It depends were you go. On a more personal look my longest most SERIOUS and good girl i dated was living in Saigon. She was great, no body count, hard working focused on family and understood balacne between us and VN family and culture. So it's def findable any were but def avoid tourist means of finding them such as tinder, bui vien, and tourist spots in country sides.

If your still around in VN let me know, i posted in the members section but always room for you regardless ^^ We planning on something in Saigon very soon ^^

@@EndlessTravels I'm stuck in canada rat race right now but I'll be in vietnam for january and february 2025. I'll be there permantly in june 2026 woohoo! I'm gonna get a bunch of those honk if you're horny t shirt from you when I get there. LOL

I think my blood, and related health issues to that have went down A LOT as in improved. It is overly noticable at this point. Even when i get a cut its healed up very fast. With Protein, i eat 8 to 12 eggs a day personally. I fry them using butter. I have NO idea how much im getting from the vegetables and meat i typically am doing meat AS OF NOW as i've updated everything again to 2 times a week were i'll get two large chicken breast and cook them up in fat based butter adn ohh yeah a LOT of chili flakes :)

I have noticed increase in vascularity myself which I suppose is related to an expansion of the overall veinous/arterial systems. I had some concerns initially but think it’s normal especially w reduction of that outer layer of body fat. I had noticed the veins in your arms and was wondering about that. I guess that I feel less social because of how I’m typically eating at home but what I do is eat in a public space outside somewhere. Scrambled eggs in butter? Yes!👍

still 10rm per person？

Yeah it is, the ONLY way i've found to avoid it are AirBNB Personally though airBNB seem to be the better way to stay a LOT of hostels and many hotels are rather "Ghetto" in Malaysia

@@EndlessTravels Thanks for your information. Airbnb sounds great! I heard that stay in a hostel(dorm room) is not a full 10 Ringgit but shared by the number of beds, seems acceptable to me if is true🙂

Yeah they are so hit and miss plus Malaysia doesn't have smoking laws or if they do no one cares. A lot of hostels smell so bad and the staff are smoking inside most the time and no shade towards Singapore people but they LOVE to smoke A LOT so when your near south Malaysia were Singapore people stay the smell is even more intensive AirBNB i've rarely had problems

There are always rain related things going on in the raining season. Lai chau for example has yearly mud slides, this year it happened again and killed i believe 9 people and even more Hmong people. It's a very poor quality if infrastructure and NOT putting in measures to prevent such things. Vietnam has the ability but don't for some reason. Lai Chau problems have been going on since 2016 THAT i have exp personally but i am sure its been a problem for decades

Alaska! Wow my mother lived there for 3 years doing a contract for the the gov airlines something. She was out in Ketchikan on some lake house thing for a year. Glad to have ya here any questions don't be shy

This COULD be part of it, this past year there has been a lot of VIetnamese abroad speaking out publicly and it has reached Vietnam's social media circles Free port i believe is the grand given to students was one that got gov. level attention. So removing English is a two fold of following China's recent move (As VN typically does) and also removing western influnces possibly without restricting the internet as it is in China or North Korea I will say though removal of English, the DEFENSE was "Students are to busy" I have been all over Asia, teaching in 9 different countries and also going to western school and 2 uni with 3 degrees Vietnam education is one of the laziest and less restrictive education systems globally..40% of the school year is spent playing games, break time, and sleeping (THis is not a joke, its a truth) While the other 60% is mostly copying the board and remember answers for the test they were already given I feel like you state English is being removed for another reason, AI, IT, micro processors, future jobs, automation ALL are English based...removing English limits Vietnamese from this world which is becoming the ONLY world we live in as people What are your thoughts? Am I crazy or we rolling on something here

@@EndlessTravels Yea its hard to say exactly what the reasoning is, but it would align with the general shift asia is taking away from the west, particularly China. I cant say its all bad considering all the negative cultural influences that have come from the west, and spread like wildfire since the advent of smaetphones/social media. Obviously, a political power like China/Vietnam have would seek to prevent that to maintain control. While that will certainly further slow their progress in developing, one must admit that the path of "progress" every other nation has followed is leading towards population collapse, and Vietnam is already hitting it as well.... So perhaps slowing down their progress would avoid some other problems as well. Just a thought.

Yeah....Imma be honest, i have to censor things in my videos because people i know watch my videos and comments i put i am not sure. I have good friends that have my best interst but some things being said can lead to some serious problems. With China though they removed English mostly as censorship of their people and control, and that has lead China down a dark road of isolation that is starting to show a MASSIVE problem, with Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Nike, and most clothing companies leaving this past 3 months and now local Chinese firms crashing its not good. With VIetnam though i cannot speak much on "Why", i am fully aware WHY and as you said political reasoning this is why i cannot fully answer you If you are ever in Vietnam thoguh we can sit down grab a coffee and with phones off can have fun talks about many things. But i can say China is big brother to Vietnam and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree for say. Your conclusion is up to you, but your standing pretty damn close to the tree with your "Thinking"

You Called immigration? You just might be one of the few to ever get someone on a phone from there answering questions. Vietnam is testing the idea of reducing visa running. You can keep doing them, the decision really comes down to the border staff. It is not abnormal to hear someone gets rejected and has to wait or just flat out refused. Vietnam current is the ONLY country in SE Asia that allows longer than 6 month stays on a tourist visa, they are starting to change this slowly though. Immigration though, you talked to the Vietnamese head department in Saigon or you called a western counter part? You had me on that comment, i know people in Vietnam's immigration directly and the idea of calling "Immigration customer service" for say is not a thing, at least not on the Vietnamese side. If you are trying to stay longer, getting a some what part time job can get you on a TRC which will keep you in, no visa run required long term 12 months at min.

@@EndlessTravels Thank you so much for your input and rapid response. I spent 3 months traveling around Vietnam in 2006 - even went to Dien Bien Phu. I particularly fell in love with Hanoi. I loved and embraced to grit, bustle and character of that city. Yes, I changed my phone plan for international calls,( I’m in the US) and went on the Vietnamese immigration website. There was a number. I called it and someone answered! I was shocked. They told me there was no limit to 90 day tourist visa renewals but I still didn’t believe it. Seemed too good to be true. I HAVE indeed heard about what you mentioned regarding getting rejected at the border coming back from a visa run by land from Cambodia or Laos. That’s why I ask as many people as I can on who have TH-cam channels what they know and what they’ve heard. I did find out from a friend who lives in Vietnam that I can’t book a one way flight - must be round trip. Guess I’ll have to eat the cost and the cancellation fee. Unless I book the round trip back out of Vietnam to Bangkok? Anyway ….

Yeah thats odd, someone picked up hyou cannot even get a person calling American Express no more but immigration ha. I am sure that person you talked to was a general help person not an official or some one that cares much about the day to day changes until filnalized laws show up. This ISN'T a law its more of a discretionary thing at BEST. You do have some options though, if your older Cambodia offers a retirement, so its easy to back and forth there long term. Thailand JUST opened up a DTV which is a 5 years Tourist Visa you have to do a visa run on once every 365 days and that would allow you both sides And again some decide to marry into communist VN for a Residence TRC card that is 2 to 5 years with 10 year pending currently or you can work and get a 12 to 24 month Residence card What ever it is though you have 6 months, that is a LOT of time to figure things out and being in Vietnam you are in the middle of many countries, use that time to explore SE Asia :)

@@EndlessTravels ok ! Again, thank you so much! I’ve already rented out my condo so there is no turning back now. At least I’m familiar with Vietnam so it’s not like it’ll be my first time there. 🤷🏻‍♂️