Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019)
&quot;The government won’t say precisely how many American retirees live in Vietnam. Interviews with about a dozen such retirees suggest that some are here on one-year tourist visas; others are here just for a season or two; and still others have qualified for long residence by marrying Vietnamese citizens, as Rockhold did.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s always odd to read stories like this. There&#x27;s some kind of implication from the headline, or maybe even that the story was ever written, that there&#x27;s a significant number of people doing this thing that&#x27;s highlighted in the story. And then the story invariably will say that the actual number of people doing this thing is not really known, or is pretty low. Seems like you could write this story about so many different groups of people doing a thing. Maybe that&#x27;s just the point, find a person doing something that&#x27;s worth writing about and make it a more interesting story? Not really anything wrong with any of it I suppose, it&#x27;s just usually obvious from the headline that the actual number of Americans retiring to Vietnam is pretty low.<p>Maybe indication of some kind of new trend, especially after people read this it brings more people over?