ComradeNam
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May not entire true but not entire false. There is no personalFor westerners Pho is quite different and unusual and we are not used to rice noodles, it really taste different than any western food.
I eat the local version that is typical of central Vietnam (Mi Quang) everyday and I never get tired of it, usually with snake head fish (ca loc).
Yes, I don't know how they do it, but they do it.
I can also say that there is quite a bit of people in Vietnam with a lot of money and quite a growing middle class in the main cities. This may not be easy to understand for people that are not used to Vietnam, but its true.
What @ComradeNam said about a lot of people running a cash economy that is not reported is true.
yup fly in vietnam is Less cost and more conveniene than train. In vietnam air route is more devloped than train. Consider many airports and air carier in vietnam. Something only vietnamese living in vietnam know. The ticket movie in is 150k to 300k vnd in vietnam about 8 to 15 usd. A starbuck coffee about the same price in U.S.I just want to comment on 1 point.
Its true that housing in Saigon (and Hanoi) its as expensive as Tokyo. For me, its a horror story that makes no sense, but its very real. There is a big distortion of land prices in Vietnam, its probably related to the government policy of how they manage land since all land belongs to the state, but I'm not sure.
When I was visiting Hanoi I was shown houses (they were not big deal) and they were million dollar houses; In Bangkok those would be $50.000.
Where I live, in Danang, a land plot of 20 x 5 meters within a few blocks of the beach is $150,000 just land. I have no idea how vietnamese people can afford to buy a house in those cities these days.
No, trains are just very expensive in Vietnam, any train, even that the quality is very bad.
State owned and managed of course.
Flying within Vietnam is very cheap, much cheaper than in China.
Yet the people live in city can afford that. If we use the person income a vietnamese $1000 how can they live? You can only find cheap stuffs in rural and suburban.