Best place in VN to live as an expat.

Hi Chief !

In HCMC (Saigon), you will find the District 2 (Thao Dien part) that will be the closest to your experience.
A lot of small shops, small roads, a lot of foreigners and like in a village, everyone knows everyone. (Well...similar).

D7 in HCMC is quite comfortable otherwise (large roads, large footpath, good infra, etc...) but you loose the proximity.

Hi there,

Most expats live in District 7 or 2. I am in District 7, and this is much more open and less noisy and crowded than other districts that I have seen. I pay less than $600 /PCM for a 2 bedroom 95sm apartment, we have a lovely swimming pool and a decent gym here on site. HAGL do good apartments. WIth $2000 you can get a top class apartment. Most motorbikes here are Honda scooters, 125cc. If you have these, they cost about $1800 new, you will not have problems with stealing, bikes are everywhere. Most apartment blocks have underground garages that are pretty safe. If you rent a house, most people put their bikes inside a ground floor room.

And I do know some pretty good agents if you need to take a good look at these (Pictures, ect...).

Cheers
Jeremy

@ pearl64   hum lets see if your meet the qualification to sell real estate in Vietnam:

Do you have a cell phone?
Do you have a laptop?
Is your mode of Transportation a 50cc moped or above?
Did you get above the 4th grade in school?

If the answers to all the above is yes then you meet the extraordinary  qualification to be a agent, but why did you post this after agreeing to the terms of agreement and code of conduct for this site. A little forgetful? Here let me refresh you on the subject:

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Hello mate, If you need help to find your property feel free to contact me in private. I know many people working in real estate now.


Cheers.

@Characteral
Hi Jeremy, yeah that'd be great cheers, or maybe I can come out to D7 for a beer n pick your brains a bit if you have time? Am in a hotel in D1 now, just arrived the other day n to be honest really not feeling it in this part of town to be honest. am books in here for 3 weeks so will use it as a base for the time being but really looking at somewhere that feels more homely if ya know what I mean. Also do you know we're I can hire a bike and is it standard that they want your passport while the bike is on hire? As not that comfortable with that to be honest. Any tips?
Cheers in advance.
Mark

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