» Riding Out the Recession in Vietnam
Karin Esterhammer pens a letter from Ho Chi Minh City, where the demand for English teachers is steady and life is cheap and beautiful.
So many aspects of Vietnamese life are healthy: family bonds, neighborliness, tolerance of each other’s off-key karaoke singing late into the night. They don’t get mad about the frequent, sometimes daylong power outages. They just use them as a chance to throw open their doors, visit, play, nap. People cross back and forth in the alley, sharing food, playing mah-jongg. There is no chance to become lonely or forgotten.Count me in.
