@mattyw2

I am currently living in da nang and I need to get some us dollars. Can I use my American debit card at a bank here to get us dollars? Or do i have to open a bank account here and transfer money from my American bank. I would rather not have ... Read More

You can withdraw them from an ATM if you have a card with fee free international transfers. I have one issued by Citibank but it's from Citibank Australia not USA. Read More

... for the record, I believe my children will get a far better education in the public school system in Vietnam than in Australia. It's partly a cultural thing but also a government priority thing. The Vietnamese give education a much higher ... Read More

I can see the results, my wife and neighbour both went to the local school here in the suburbs of Da Nang and are both excelling. Same with the neighbours' kids. No shock here. Read More

Great thank-you and for the record, I believe my children will get a far better education in the public school system in Vietnam than in Australia. It's partly a cultural thing but also a government priority thing. The Vietnamese give ... Read More

Doesn't change the fact you had a privileged upbringing that is privileged in any society. Read More

I speak English with many older people educated under the old system. And their English is not up to the standard of most young people here. Read More

So your training from your father and brother was something not available to the masses as the masses were busy growing your food, building your roads and serving you in various other ways. They didn't have the skills. You had your family ... Read More

No way, it was the super well off who had cars like that in Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. The school he was VP of was one of the top schools not just any of the normal government schools open to the masses. Read More

Reality check - your family was elite. Your father was running the top education apparatus of the state and you had cars when people in the west couldn't even afford them. Very few people in South East Asia had cars in the 50s, 60s or 70s. Read More

Just the restaurants. Red Sky, The Fish and Chips shop, Limoncello and a few bars. I only goto the restaurants and see the odd expat. Read More

So now it sounds like similar hard work as today for your father, even though he had a top job. Today people in that kind of role are very well off. Usually with a modern air conditioned car. Air conditioned 3-4 story house. So I can't see ... Read More

Ciambella you weren't middle class. You were in an elite educated and most likely connected political class. Your father had a top position at a top school. Of course Vietnam was run down and has had a long hard road to rebuild. The US had ... Read More

They would have developed regardless of America coming in bombing them to development. The vietnamese were never doing fantastically under the colonial rule. And the Southern government was always a puppet government. You need to get yourself ... Read More

I think the country got pretty destroyed when more ordinance was dropped on it by the Americans than was used in both the eastern and western fronts in WW2. Vietnam has problems as does everywhere. 50% of them could be fixed by not dropping rubbish ... Read More