One of my primary objectives as far as staying over here is concerned has been, for years, avoiding moving back to the United States. I mean no offense to the people who share the type of passport that I have, but there are just so many cost-oriented problems associated with that country and the leadership just kind of dances around the problem rather than actually doing anything about it. Over here, if things get too expensive, the people start demanding answers immediately and are actually voting people out that created the problems in the first place. Well probably not Vietnam so much as Thailand because in Vietnam we just have varying degrees of communism parties. Let's just say that it is so little of an issue for me that I don't even bother looking into the politics so much over here.

Rent is kept really cheap here but that doesn't change the fact that the liklihood of you getting hired for anything other than a teaching job is extremely low. They have their own people for that and then they also don't have to deal with the language divide. I think that many people are probably better-versed to just stay in their home country and perhaps try to spend less in their day-to-day lives. Save up and go on a long vacation if your job allows for it. That is a much better route than trying to go through the expensive method of relocating to another part of the world, failing, then spending a ton of money to move back.