Having lived and worked in Vietnam going on a half dozen years now there has been some dramatic changes in my short time here, talking with some 'old timers' here some whom have been since the opening up of the country i can relate to some of the previous posts but the current Vietnam is a lot different.
I bet it is, I wasn't having a go at Vietnam or anyone there, we enjoyed our time there, but it was odd in lots of ways.
A bit off topic, SORRY Mods, but how different is it now, suppose you have things like Maccas even now? Nothing like that when we were there, partly because of the American embargo that was still on.
Prices were unbelievably low (for us) some of the people working with us at Vietnam Airlines had a monthly salary about the same as our daily expense allowance, and they were among the highest paid workers in Vietnam.