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Travel, experience, go with the flow, keep an open mind.

Life is a journey not a destination.

Only me that is not problem,but I have kids together

Solo1 wrote:

Travel, experience, go with the flow, keep an open mind.

Life is a journey not a destination.

Nice...a bunch of Clichés that doesn't really help much.  I'll interpret for you.

What Solo1 means is you should probably travel to Vũng Tàu first for a few days visit to see how life is. 

Vũng Tàu province is one of the richest provinces in Việt Nam due to the oil industry.  It ranks 3rd (or 4th) in the country for GDP (behind Hồ Chí Minh City, Hà Nội).  The city itself is in the process of requesting the National Assembly (folks in the Capital) grant it federal city status, on par with the five existing:  Hà Nội,Hải Phòng, Đà Nẵng, Hồ Chí Minh City, and Cần Thơ.

There are alot of opportunities in the city, provided you have experience in the oil industry, speak Russian, or do something in the tourism industry. The cost of living in the city is expensive.  However, outside in the province, agriculture is still dominant.  There are vegetables and rice farming as well as fruit and rubber plantations.  The cost of living is less in the province. 

Alot of Northerners have arrived and are working as hired hands in the farm fields.  They bring their family with them too.  Last year, I visited about 5 families who live in straw huts/leaf houses; simple folks who came from Nam Định province.   

So again, you may want to scout out the area first to see if you can make a life for yourself and your kids here.  Good luck.

Yes, Vung Tau would be well worth investigating. You might also look at Ban Me Thuot, the coffee capital, which now has over 300,000 inhabitants. I ran into some people from Nam Dinh there about ten years ago, living along Highway 14, and having to move their rickety truck stop every few months as the police closed them down. Those days are over, it seems.

The South has been a land of opportunity for the Vietnamese ever since the Trinh-Nguyen split and the fall of China's Ming dynasty. It is far easier to try Vung Tau than going overseas. Going overseas requires a country willing to accept you. Given your command of English, the USA, Canada, and Australia seem obvious choices, but immigration policies in all are strict and there are long waiting lists.

If you are middle class and have relatives in any of those, you'd be better advised to save enough money to take a vacation there and see what life is really like. The seemingly rich relatives in Iowa or Michigan are often working six days a week to make ends meet and save money, and the winters are brutal. Florida, Texas, and California are the preferred destinations for U.S. Vietnamese, due to climate and the size of established Viet communities. Australia has Cabramatta outside of Sydney, but north of Sidney Vietnamese communities are much smaller. Even Cairns in the tropical north has a small Viet community within a larger Asian community.   

So Vung Tau or Ban Me Thuot are the best places to start.

Thanks ,Do you know any family in Vung tau need housemaid Vietnamese? I was a housemaid in Cyprus for 4 years,I like that work,

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

Solo1 wrote:

Travel, experience, go with the flow, keep an open mind.

Life is a journey not a destination.

Nice...a bunch of Clichés that doesn't really help much.  I'll interpret for you.

What Solo1 means is you should probably travel to Vũng Tàu first for a few days visit to see how life is. 

Vũng Tàu province is one of the richest provinces in Việt Nam due to the oil industry.  It ranks 3rd (or 4th) in the country for GDP (behind Hồ Chí Minh City, Hà Nội).  The city itself is in the process of requesting the National Assembly (folks in the Capital) grant it federal city status, on par with the five existing:  Hà Nội,Hải Phòng, Đà Nẵng, Hồ Chí Minh City, and Cần Thơ.

There are alot of opportunities in the city, provided you have experience in the oil industry, speak Russian, or do something in the tourism industry. The cost of living in the city is expensive.  However, outside in the province, agriculture is still dominant.  There are vegetables and rice farming as well as fruit and rubber plantations.  The cost of living is less in the province. 

Alot of Northerners have arrived and are working as hired hands in the farm fields.  They bring their family with them too.  Last year, I visited about 5 families who live in straw huts/leaf houses; simple folks who came from Nam Định province.   

So again, you may want to scout out the area first to see if you can make a life for yourself and your kids here.  Good luck.

Thanks for the unsolicited assistance. What would Expatblog do without you?

Not everyone is a research junky nor gives long winded adinfinitum  written advice associated with writing a legal brief. LOL

I have been in Vung tau city last month for 4 days ,the people is honest ,not same North Vietnam, there have market for poor people,and also have restaurant ,you pay only 2000 dong ,you will have food ,that is better for us ,But I want to find job first  after will move there,