Why are you still in Thailand, not in Vietnam?

[JoseThailand]

Vietnam is getting a lot of hype now, 40% cheaper than Thailand, easy immigration rules, no problem with border runs or "staying too much", friendly and helpful locals, no fake smiles like in Thailand when they only want your money. Tourists are flocking to Vietnam and can't stop raving about how much they like it. So the question is: why are YOU still in Thailand, and not in Vietnam?

[cjinchiangrai]

My wife doesn't like the food.

[hovercraft]

If Vietnam is more welcoming to long stay tourists then I might have to go there. The Thai government treats the foreign population living here like trash.

 

I actually prefer the vietnamese food, I could eat banh mi every day.

[Maxbkkcm]

Vietnam is hell on earth.

 

Noisy, overpopulated, scams all over.

 

Groomy place, truly a hopeless place.

 

i wonder why people are praising it. Very strange and misleading.

[ukrules]

I'm in Cambodia at the moment. No visa issues here at all.

 

Lets not forget what Vietnam did in 2017 to 2018 - relatively recently - they altered the visa rules to make it very hard for foreigners to live there unless married to a local, etc. Many left as they couldn't renew visas.

 

Effectively they kicked everyone out - just before COVID hit - their timing was perfect.

Now they want people back.

They did it once and recently, why should we even consider this place due to its obvious hatred of the foreigner?

There's been no change in government, so what gives? When will they do it again? Next week, next year? Who knows?

 

[baansgr]

90 day limit ..who wants to do a border run every 3 months, not to mention the cost...people moan about 90 day reporting ...even can do on line, what they gonna be like there....nah..have to get a decent retirement visa befor anyone takes that commie country seriously 

[baansgr]

3 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

Vietnam is getting a lot of hype now, 40% cheaper than Thailand, easy immigration rules, no problem with border runs or "staying too much", friendly and helpful locals, no fake smiles like in Thailand when they only want your money. Tourists are flocking to Vietnam and can't stop raving about how much they like it. So the question is: why are YOU still in Thailand, and not in Vietnam?

Doing online 90 day reporting is bad enough...couldn't cope with all that travelling and expense doing border runs every 90 days