Love these little propaganda videos challenging people’s views on a country, this time #Vietnam
Fact is, both elements are true - sometimes on the same street. Modernity mixed with backwards squalor is everywhere.
I have a smart home, with a pool, better Internet than I had in Aus and better mobile, a cleaner, pool cleaner, in home massage for <$10, my life is qualitatively better here than home for 1/4 the price.
Also - a cow randomly walked past and turned off my water main a few months ago, end of my street there is a huge smelly garbage pile, and until a week ago the view out my front door was overgrown abandoned portapotties
The place is chaotic and alive, very very different to the sterility and staleness of Melbourne which whilst much cleaner, feels dead.
Personally I enjoy this much more. Sure there’s lots I don’t enjoy, but being amongst a culture not living for the weekend where every day seems like a possibility, and things don’t feel like they were all planned 100 years ago and everyone’s just hanging on to that because they’ve got no better ideas, feels more invigorating.
Fact is, both elements are true - sometimes on the same street. Modernity mixed with backwards squalor is everywhere.
I have a smart home, with a pool, better Internet than I had in Aus and better mobile, a cleaner, pool cleaner, in home massage for <$10, my life is qualitatively better here than home for 1/4 the price.
Also - a cow randomly walked past and turned off my water main a few months ago, end of my street there is a huge smelly garbage pile, and until a week ago the view out my front door was overgrown abandoned portapotties
The place is chaotic and alive, very very different to the sterility and staleness of Melbourne which whilst much cleaner, feels dead.
Personally I enjoy this much more. Sure there’s lots I don’t enjoy, but being amongst a culture not living for the weekend where every day seems like a possibility, and things don’t feel like they were all planned 100 years ago and everyone’s just hanging on to that because they’ve got no better ideas, feels more invigorating.