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My Vacation in Vietnam ***PICS***

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i applaud you for posting so many personal pics on a public forum

your relatives seem well off, too. my vietnamese friends have shown me their "back home" pics and they are a lot different. hell, a single family dwelling and a bmw is a lot better than what most of this forum has.
 
I'm surprised with such high tariffs, kit cars which are tariff exempt, are not more popular in Vietnam. So basically, you ship the parts over and they are assembled locally.

I love the metal door concept for the house and garage. You don't see that too often over here in the states due to fire codes.

The theme song for this thread should be "You Got Beef" by Chuckie Akenz.
 
fustercluck said:
Thanks. I guess that's what people do when they put 100% tax on cars...everyone gets motorcycles 😀 - Or do they tax those pretty high too? I guess they'd just be easier to get around on?
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No they just tax a lot on cars only.
 
caspur said:
I'm surprised with such high tariffs, kit cars which are tariff exempt, are not more popular in Vietnam. So basically, you ship the parts over and they are assembled locally.

I love the metal door concept for the house and garage. You don't see that too often over here in the states due to fire codes.

The theme song for this thread should be "You Got Beef" by Chuckie Akenz.
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I don't think there are any building codes over there. But I guess the metal doors can be open manually. My family is really lucky to be well off now. We were really poor before
 
moshquerade said:
Very nice pics. Nice glimpse into a place I've never been, but is this the norm? It seems your relatives are well off.
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No, this is absolutely not the norm. Not even close. His relatives are very well off. In Vietnam, if you're a member of the Party or you bribe/do business with the Party, you live well.

My mom recently asked me to donate some money to a charity to help out the poor in Vietnam. The pictures she showed me were heart-breaking. A family of 5 crammed into a little straw hut. For $700, we were able to get them material to build a little shack out of some concrete-like material (I don't know what it is; I don't know much about construction material). The new shack isn't great but at least it's clean and the people don't have to lie on straw on the mud floor.
 
Your family is loaded by Vietnamese standards.

Kroze said:
There's no way around the car prices, i've asked. Even if you buy a $1k car and ship it there, they'll charge you the going rate of how much the car would go for and tax you on that.
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I don't think that's entirely true. There are certainly no legal ways around it, but the law is pretty flexible in Vietnam. I wouldn't be surprised if you could bribe your way out of it. Also, I've been told that smuggling cars is very lucrative. No idea how you smuggle something as big as a car, though.
 
I've always wanted to visit SE asia (I'm Korean).

Beautiful beautiful pics. I love these non-touristy everyday-life pictures.
 
Kroze said:
Lots of street vendors, they're poor peoples.


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This is how most people live in Vietnam. The OP's family is not representative of the population.
 
blinky8225 said:
Your family is loaded by Vietnamese standards.



I don't think that's entirely true. There are certainly no legal ways around it, but the law is pretty flexible in Vietnam. I wouldn't be surprised if you could bribe your way out of it. Also, I've been told that smuggling cars is very lucrative. No idea how you smuggle something as big as a car, though.
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Why smuggle when you can simply bribe an official 25% of the tax? That's already what, $20K USD? That's a fucking fortune in Vietnam.
 
blinky8225 said:
Your family is loaded by Vietnamese standards.



I don't think that's entirely true. There are certainly no legal ways around it, but the law is pretty flexible in Vietnam. I wouldn't be surprised if you could bribe your way out of it. Also, I've been told that smuggling cars is very lucrative. No idea how you smuggle something as big as a car, though.
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plus i'd guess it would depend on how corrupt and sh*t your local officials were. hardly transparent/just government there, i'm sure they could wreck your life over this or that if they wanted to. trump up some charges about trying to undermine the government and make u disappear😛 not worth it for a car.
 
I know a U.S born citizen who is currently living and working in VN for a big multinational company. He makes around $90K and is living the good life. One of the great things he says is he has 3 servants who are at his beck and call for 12 hours a day and he only has to pay them each $50 a month. He is thinking of even retiring there.
 
WizKid408 said:
I know a U.S born citizen who is currently living and working in VN for a big multinational company. He makes around $90K and is living the good life. One of the great things he says is he has 3 servants who are at his beck and call for 12 hours a day and he only has to pay them each $50 a month. He is thinking of even retiring there.
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I'd pay them $100 just cause I could.
 
WizKid408 said:
I know a U.S born citizen who is currently living and working in VN for a big multinational company. He makes around $90K and is living the good life. One of the great things he says is he has 3 servants who are at his beck and call for 12 hours a day and he only has to pay them each $50 a month. He is thinking of even retiring there.
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Beck and call is one thing, but I wonder how much it costs to have those servants at his beckoned call? 😉
 
I couldn't live like that knowing the people around me are living in shanties or on the street. To each his own I guess...
 
Is it wrong that I thought your family was role-playing as Viet Cong in the "Family & Old Relatives" picture...

Honestly, I thought those manequins were real in the first pic.
 
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