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Can You Retire in Vietnam on Social Security Alone? Budgets at $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 a Month
What $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 a month cover for one retiree in seven Vietnamese cities, using the calculator's sourced numbers.
Posts follow the same rules as the guides: every money, visa and health fact links to its source, with the date we last checked it.
About this guide
Tam Lieu lives in Long Beach, California, and put this guide together to research retiring in Vietnam. Facts are checked against official sources, with last-checked dates.
How we check facts: every number and rule links to its source: an official or primary source wherever one exists (government sites, the U.S. Embassy, law texts), or the company's own page for company prices, which we label as company prices. Crowd-sourced figures are labelled too. Each source shows the date we last checked it; anything we cannot confirm is cut or marked “needs source”. Found a mistake? Tell us.
Photo and video credits
- Photo: “Hoi An Central Market (15242392187)” by Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, Wikimedia Commons (resized and converted to WebP)