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Vietnam named one of the friendliest places on Earth for expats
Vietnam named one of the friendliest places on Earth for expats
29/3/18
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| Ranking of the most welcoming countries for expats in 2018 |
More than 80 percent of expats describe the Vietnamese as welcoming, and 16 percent plan to stay forever.
Vietnam has been named among
the top 10 destinations for expats in a new ranking aimed at guiding the
world’s rising number of modern nomads.
The country was placed ninth on the InterNations’ 2018
Expat Insider survey, climbing three spots from last year.
More than four in five expats, or 81 percent, described
the Vietnamese people as welcoming, and 73 percent said it was easy to settle
down in the country, the survey found.
Of the expats questioned, 56 percent said they had found
it easy to make friends with locals, and 16 percent said they planned to stay
forever.
More than half of the expats said they planned to stay in
the country for up to five years, which was well above the global average of 35
percent.
“I love the friendly vibe in the city,” said an expat from
South Korea who lives in Saigon, as cited in an InterNations press release on
Tuesday. “People are mostly nice and gentle.”
InterNations, the largest network for people who live and
work abroad, this year ranked 65 economies by looking at comments from nearly
13,000 expats from 188 countries and territories.
Portugal was named the place
with the happiest expats, followed by Taiwan,
where most expats said they felt at home, and Mexico, where many said it was easy
to settle down and acclimatize to the local culture.
Cambodia, Bahrain, Costa
Rica, Oman,
Colombia and Canada were
other destinations named in the top 10.
The United States was ranked 36th, while the least
friendly countries were Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria and
Kuwait, the survey found.
There are around 82,000 foreigners living and working in Vietnam.
The new ranking is uplifting in wake of an HSBC survey in
September 2017 that found many expats were not happy with life in the country,
with only 28 percent of expats agreeing that they enjoyed a better overall
quality of life than in their home countries.
According to HSBC, the average income for expats in Vietnam dropped
by 14.5 percent from the previous year to $88,096 in 2017, which is lower than
the global average. Vietnamese workers earned $2,200 on average last year.
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All comments [ 9 ]
The locals showed us so much about their amazing culture, and welcomed us with open arms,
The people are happy, genuine, accommodating, and the nicest I have ever seen
People are mostly nice and gentle
This should come as no surprise, given the country bases its overall health on the happiness of its people.
nowhere is more welcoming than Vietnam
the people are wonderful. Couldn't be friendlier
locals are very lovely, charming, and exceptionally friendly.
Their friendliness was first-rate compared to any other country I'd visited,
Everyone in Vietnam is friendly
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