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stretch56 wrote:

No hassles being a single straight white middle aged semi retiree in vietnam ??

You might be quite popular with the girls.

johnross23 wrote:

5) relaxed visa regulations

How many threads are there on this very forum about visas?聽 There are constant complaints and questions on the never ending visa runs to Cambodia, the hassles at immigration from officials seeking bribes and the whole industry of travel agents whose primary purpose is not to sell tickets but visas, some of which even turn out to be complete forgeries.

Many who wrote here did so from the perspective of having Vietnamese spouses or relatives which affords them relatively long term legal residence.聽 For unemployed single males it could be another story.聽 Working in ESL part time might not even afford you a Work Permit and Temporary Residence card as employers would be unwilling to make the expenditures for a part-timer.聽 Even if you teach full time, i.e. about 25 face to face hours, what happens when you want to really retire and you lose the work permit?聽 As suggested by Gobot, you might want to check out Thailand and the Philippines.聽 Both have so-called retirement visas although I read that they both require some type of financial bond or locked bank account.聽 The Philippines has the added advantage that a very high portion of the population speaks English, so maybe no teaching work but an easier time getting around.

Pretzeldog wrote:

Lose weight????

Actually this is not an inaccurate prognosis.聽 As long as you don't spend your time seeking out western foods like Pizza Hut and McDonald's and knocking down Tiger beer you may lose weight.聽 Comparing notes with an Australian friend, we both noted that we had lost about 10-15 pounds in our first six months.聽 In my case, I was married.聽 He was single (at that time) but was eating Vietnamese food exclusively.

I think there are two factors.聽 One is more vegetables and less meat.聽 Most Vietnamese have meat with every meal, except on certain Buddhist holidays, but the portion size is smaller.聽 The other reason may be a difference in the stomach "bugs."聽 I don't mean illness but maybe a difference in certain beneficial bacteria.聽

I gained 10 lbs on return to Hawaii because my wife said that the pork was so cheap.聽 Imagine if we lived in Iowa.聽 As I have said before, her brain can instantly convert $/lb to VND/kg while I need a calculator.

stretch56 wrote:

No not just to lose weight but live and enjoy what is on offfer food culture and country wise

I didn't say it was a goal.聽 I just said it might happen.

THIGV wrote:

Pretzeldog wrote:

Lose weight????

Actually this is not an inaccurate prognosis.聽 As long as you don't spend your time seeking out western foods like Pizza Hut and McDonald's and knocking down Tiger beer you may lose weight.聽 Comparing notes with an Australian friend, we both noted that we had lost about 10-15 pounds in our first six months.聽 In my case, I was married.聽 He was single (at that time) but was eating Vietnamese food exclusively.

I think there are two factors.聽 One is more vegetables and less meat.聽 Most Vietnamese have meat with every meal, except on certain Buddhist holidays, but the portion size is smaller.聽 The other reason may be a difference in the stomach "bugs."聽 I don't mean illness but maybe a difference in certain beneficial bacteria.聽

I gained 10 lbs on return to Hawaii because my wife said that the pork was so cheap.聽 Imagine if we lived in Iowa.聽 As I have said before, her brain can instantly convert $/lb to VND/kg while I need a calculator.

I too lost weight after I came to live in Vietnam and I think that THIGV is right. The portions are smaller - and there is less fat attached. The Vietnamese do like a bit of fat on their pork but not overmuch and I never see any fat on the local beef here. We buy beef from MM supermarket (used to be Metro) either Australian or US and always cut the fat off before cooking it. In UK I would just shove it on the barbie, fat and all.

To compensate for the smaller meat portions I eat a lot more veg and fruit than I used to and most of it is fresh picked that morning from local farms or markets. In the UK the fruit and veg might have been days in transit from Holland, France or Germany and then a couple of days on the shelf, so that sugars in the fruit and veg start turning into starch.

I don't drink anything like as much beer as I did in the UK, mainly because I think that the local canned and bottled brews are mundane - and I'm buggered if I'm going to pay the price of a pint in the beer craft places, so I have a bottle of red wine a week and a couple of beers (Saigon red) after shopping.

One big thing is that I don't eat rice and apart from banh mi, which I sometimes have for Sunday breakfast, I have cut down massively on carbohydrates. Chips (fries) are something I eat once a week and I usually buy a loaf of bread from An Phu supermarket once every couple weeks.

In fact my diet has changed radically from what it was when I lived in Europe and i have lost 20 kg since coming here.