I survived on $6 in Vietnam 🇻🇳 minimum wage VS. top executive salary

[@TomfromTX]

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[@Bababooey799]

Hey Tom, does nastya have a KZbin channel if so what’s it called

[@BushcraftQuebec]

Why are you even here

[@rogerward9492]

Hi Tom & Nastya, respect from 🇬🇧

[@hi_lol1912]

Eeeeeeeeeeeee

[@Worztder1.6]

Avarage salary vs foreigner spending. What a good video. I live in Hanoi for my whole life and I can guarantee that people can live good in Hanoi just using $500 to $1000.

[@ardianpratama5143]

Same here in indonesia, 1000 dollar its like very decent

[@hi_lol1912]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@soku3889]

That's just the minimum wage of a job, most Vietnamese people do 2 or 3 jobs. And they have a home, cook at home, that's more economical. Although Vietnam's spending is very cheap, with 6 dollars, you can't live a full day like that. But I have to admit one thing that Vietnamese people live in happiness. I always see them active and smiling even though they are not rich.

[@Minh-oi2ux]

actually majority of people in Vietnam dont make much but the price is very cheap there. So its like with monthly income of 4000$, you can run a normal family in Ha Noi, while it will take much more in other countries.

[@kiemtienairdrop24h]

90% of the population in my country has a house without paying housing tax. the reason there are no homeless people is because they get money from donors for rice , food and the state every month .

[@kiemtienairdrop24h]

In addition, the poor and people living in remote and isolated areas are provided with free medical examination and treatment.

[@nguyenkhoi9068]

“Although they are not rich” 😂😂😂 because you haven’t met the rich ones 😂😂😂

[@mfamily3301]

The first time Amazing race show compete Vietnam (almost 20 years ago). One of two brothers team surprise that their life seem to be so hard, but some how they smile all the time.

[@Robox986]

I was from Vietnam and born Vietnam but thanks for visit My home country 🇻🇳🤝🏻🇺🇸

[@nguyenthanhbinh434]

Welcome to Vietnam. Please make more videos about Vietnamese people, culture, and landscapes so that people can better understand Vietnam. I hope you will come back to Vietnam!

[@longhairedphreak]

As a Vietnamese (born in North America), that Google translate segment was brilliant & priceless!!!!! 😂😂😂Keep up the great content! 🤗

[@leonardpearlman4017]

That was unexpected and funny. People look at translating stuff as if it's magic, but we can see some difficulties. On the other hand, if you've watched a lot of stuff about Vietnamese markets I think 120,000 Dong, you wouldn't starve! Especially if you're buying groceries and not only cooked food. It should but is of course not being observed that persons on Minimum Wage here in Murica aren't going far!

[@nguyenquang2416]

Hmm top executive salary is nowhere near $116 a day, that's for middle manager levels, top C-levels earn about $600-$900 per day.

[@TimesFM4532]

In vitnam

[@DungVo-cj1vq]

Are you referring to managers or executive directors of international corporations operating in Vietnam? That does not represent a local business.

[@baobaolovely]

Depending on how large and how much the company made, otherwise they may bankrupt paying the executives upto$900/day. May be saigon beer. They made big profit every year.

[@nguyenquang2416]

@@DungVo-cj1vq I know some top local big corps pay $25k-$40k/month to top C-levels, here in Hanoi

[@nguyenquang2416]

@@baobaolovely Vingroup and subsidiaries, Masan, TCB, VPB...pay top management that amount

[@lstavatr7675]

You guys are fun couples! I like your YTchannel and videos that makes all the adventurings to watch! 💯🙃✌️

[@xdgs567z]

i like how you make your videos into games and make it fun while educational👍😊

[@TomfromTX]

Somebody who gets it

[@thomashelm6931]

I was in Vietnam during a difficult time. Always wanted to go back and see the north. Always liked the culture.

[@binhboonggamer2445]

love u and your energy when u come to Vietnam.🇻🇳

[@tonycallme3667]

I live in Vietnam but more at the countryside, i never really like being in the city due to how overpopulated it was and seeing foreigners is hilarious

[@locbui5388]

Tom had a good experience in Vietnam 😁

[@hoangnguyenminh9594]

Hi Tom, I discovered your channel and your wife's one just recently and I definitely love your work. However, 6USD / day in a city like Hanoi is quite impossible to be survivable, maybe in the outskirt or countryside like Nam Dinh that will do just fine. But that makes your video quite interesting for even a local like me. And for clarification, you were in Vietnam in April, which has many interesting event, some of them are just national holiday like Reunification Day April 30th - International Workers' Day May 1st, so it is quite normal to see kids participating in afterschool memorial activities because it is our core tradition to honor the heroes.

[@ozinvesting6517]

Great vlog!

[@ngocduong7281]

You can buy bread have an egg and a sausages with lot of topping with 1$

[@finlockheart8763]

A lot of Asians also live with their family so housing wouldnt be such a big cost factor like that

[@Lugi515]

i know exactly one vietnamese person and that via discord, he lives in a shed on the roof of an apartment bloc but he is one of the funniest persons ever

[@professorsnape2170]

that hammer and sickle gave me legit soviet vibes.

[@SovietChickenNoodle]

hee hee hee haw

[@cliffordnewell2445]

Nastya is a bargain at any price.

[@user-lz8ys5dq4x]

nice video ❤😊

[@nike121989]

inspired by the TV show "орел и решка" (heads and tails)

[@anthonysferruzzi]

Really enjoying these videos and sorry Tom but it’s actually entertaining when you get the minimal wage and Nastya beats you 😂

[@tuantran-de5bi]

Love this vlog....thanks for sharing

[@phiba4467]

Good content

[@THCSVănPhú-z2v]

cảm ơn các bạn làm về VN

[@cristianoo2]

The lady that teaches English, not only she makes 2,400 USD, she spends almost nothing! And while so, enjoy living in a different culture for a while. What a fantastic combination!!

[@Cowboy4630]

Im sure if you put you both on minimum wage it would be doable because if you notice there all with friends or family that they can bunk with splitting costs

[@hungdam1811]

I'm a newly graduated student and I can easily earn $50 per day just with casual office work (no OT). By no chance, Top Executives earn just more than one hundred per day. That kind of figure I think is more suitable for a senior employee or junior-level manager. The C-level managers here (Vietnamese laborers working for a Vietnamese start-up/enterprise) earn a minimum 300$ per day and can be up to $600 or more. For foreigners working here, the number could be 50% higher to double the amount. I love your videos but I think you should conduct better research before saying something online to a broad users based. Keep up the good work!

[@nguyenminhquan7975]

Bro 50 Dollars per day is 1500 per Month. Which is 35 mil vnd. Newly grads with casual Office work do not get paid 35 mil a month

[@StudioDreamOn-l1k]

I'm Vietnamese, this guy lied. Only 1% can do what he said.

[@basedpatriotLT]

Obviously it is false. The salaries you quoted would be higher than in many european union countries. And those countries average salaries are multiple times higher than average virtnameese salaries.

[@20luzer52]

Honestly, I thought Nastya's first attempt was pretty good.

[@hunterkuon6828]

Welcome to vietnam 👏👏👏

[@dsfsdfdsfsdf9806]

Loved this style of vlogging, but I want more Nastya and a little less Tom for obvious reasons

[@thaihoangvan6707]

thanks you

[@abrahamanand5739]

I love Vietnam!! Its a country where the vietnamese women are way more beautiful than a western woman 😅

[@DSL_OFFICIAL]

Nice

[@rgarewal100]

Love this channel! Is impossible to expat with a dog in tow?

[@S1lverarrow]

many live with dogs, but not every landlord stand pets.

[@rgarewal100]

Thanks! @@S1lverarrow

[@morgankovarik3649]

You can do it on $6 day. But I was in Ho Chi Minh.

[@delvsional672]

at the beginning i feel like they’re pronounced the words as if they were chinese characters

[@JameS-zm9mp]

That flag coat >20% of the bike

[@SimpleX84]

Do you get nap time for lunch being a teacher in Vietnam ?

[@ZoeMai-b7t]

I am a Vietnamese and watching you guys suffer to speak my language is so inter tainting

[@beograanin5855]

Come to Serbia) I'll be your guide

[@borushiki9601]

you guys should go Mongolia

[@arsend2870]

Это же просто пародия на орла и решку) парень и девушка к тому же оба русские, просто хорошо знают язык

[@matthewyabsley]

Just buy her some flowers for 6 dollars and get it over with. Save us all a lot of bother.

[@gtccold]

should skip the scooter

[@T0mat0_S0up]

3:01 Actually I don’t think a lot of Vietnamese really take pride in their communist roots as they don’t really care much about politics. That’s pretty much my experience with them as they don’t really talk much about politics in general.

[@fatalmokrane]

There is nothing wrong with communism.

[@35Colorado]

I gave you a thumbs down just for the grossly irresponsible and ignorant support of communism.

[@blueskyalchemist623]

And I give u a thumb down for being a bozo

[@markjordan9791]

whats your height bro

[@JameS-zm9mp]

$17 for a durian

[@Harry._.Thompson]

His pfp looks like the Ukraine flag 🇺🇦

[@temjenimchen7925]

The Communist has Confucian principles which makes people live in discipline, good values and morals.

[@lilacghoste8366]

Well it was started by farmers

[@MrIceLP]

Так вы расстались или нет, или опять сошлись?)

[@TomfromTX]

No lol 😂

[@i0x_x0i]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@noivongxoang235]

OMG f. propaganda, what a S. flag which is actually the flag of a Chinese's province called Phúc kiến

[@丁日光]

Source: trust me bro. Another mindless twerp who thinks saying "the flag of Vietnam🇻🇳 belongs to Fujian" is cool, fun and game. You must learned history at Pizza Hut and KFC.

[@Granin-uu6me]

You mean Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Somalia 🇸🇴 are Fuji flag 😂

[@xristinaxristina766]

Nastya has such a sweet and relaxing voice.. She was born for KZbin

[@djococ1]

Born for KZbin?! And you was born without brain ...

[@widayantosetio]

I believe thomas will be on minimum budget forever in the next videos, and i completely support that 😂🎉

[@baccamau80]

I love you guys for traveling and share culture Vietnam ❤🇻🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺 .Hello from vietnam👋

[@spookyengie735]

A few thing i like to mention, a large portion of the vietnamese population own their house with a smaller set of either worker and student living in rental places, since most vietnamese living in multi-generation household it common for most of us to own a home. Removing rent out of the picture, electricity,water and internet is fairly cheap so it only take up at best 10-12% of your budget. With 6$ to spare a day you can cook a pretty lavish meal for yourself for really cheap, even eating out doesn't cost much. Cost of living here is generally survivable and leave some room for saving, however it still too low for people to live comfortably if they don't already own a home, housing cost here is pretty insane especially in the city, maybe not new york or london insane but still far out of the budget of a average vietnamese.

[@hoangnguyenminh9594]

I couldnt agree more. Most people could work up to 2-3k USD a month but they have to rent a house instead of buying one if they had no family support. Even the government considered that problem was very abnormal and tried to change things but I think it doesnt go anywhere soon. But as a home country, I'm proud to be a citizen of it. We had a long history of being invaded and worked hard to defend ourself (mostly from China, US and France were more recent) and socialist-style market economic model just works almost flawlessly so people just enjoy the life and are happy about it.

[@rosemangofairy]

As someone from Southeast Asia, I just wanna say thank you for not promoting being a "begpacker" 😅. I've definitely seen few instances where overseas tourists beg for money on the streets. Most people in SE Asia probably earn like a tenth of their income, and poverty and socioeconomic inequality is still probably deeper here than the tourist's origin country. Of course, living costs here are cheaper. But begging money while the locals are probably poorer than you is just in really bad taste in my opinion 🙏🏻

[@CARL_093]

nice place bro i m adding Vietnam to my travel list

[@naninani3493]

Awwww thank you from Vietnam 🇻🇳❤🇷🇺❤🇺🇸

[@zakharbondarev7814]

Я так понял она ходила с тобой целый день ,снимая тебя?

[@matthiasfrank9115]

I’m already about 20 seconds into the challenge (2:07) and I just realized that there’s a camera person. Isn’t that cheating?

[@JameS-zm9mp]

Bro that 1.50 pho is bigger and more meat than $13 pho where I live

[@iChief803]

I really enjoy these short insights but would LOVE a longer "in-between" the scenes videos as well!

[@АлександрПетров-у6й8б]

You have very good channel! You are the first American blogger, whom I have subscribed😊

[@macongmuoi6787]

Welcome to Vietnam ❤

[@JameS-zm9mp]

If only the Vietnamese restaurant is cheap. Minimum $14 a dish

[@20luzer52]

?!?!?

[@thecookierat]

$17 USD for a Durian? wtf haha

[@TheV3tt]

Im suprised by how cheap everything is in vietam if you look in the right places lol

[@tomdiesen4767]

Haha 6 dollars, well done.

[@DaiCaThanh71]

Underrated video❤

[@tuka1751]

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[@oigioioivn]

The thing about Vietnam is in a house hold, both parents work. and in big cities most people make more than the minimum wage. So 2 people working can earn around 800-1200USD per month. Thats enough to raise 2 kids and have a kind of decent life.

[@tribemayamex]

no kidding i always write this kind of comments about mexico's 5 dollar a day minimum salary. big difference in wealth between 12 dollars an hour even now in a Walmart here in utah usa versus poor countries. not necessarily money but social benefits some times not available.

[@FlowerCrownOfPoppy]

Ну вы настолько откровенно у Орла и Решки слизали... Не то, что это прямо плохо - просто забавно.

[@naranbaz]

u guys did a good job of doing ur own version of Oryol i Reshka.

[@binhboonggamer2445]

omg and i dont know why this video dont have more views 😢 So interesting and educated

[@vulang2349]

Just saw your video, lol what's more Texas than "Tom from Texas" man? hahahha

[@traveling_future]

Vietnam is expensive as f 200$ monthly income trash turkey is way cheaper flights not expensive hotels etc way better

[@81Earthangel]

Top executives make waaaaaaaayyyyy more than 116 USD per day. With a Russian GF you should understand that their official salary is only a tiny fraction of their total income.

[@S1lverarrow]

common thing even for US TOP-executives.

[@tuantranvan5328]

người việt chúng tôi còn ngèo khó nhưng nữ cười luôn nở trên môi

[@Savetheplanet802]

Did she lived in US before meeting him , her English is way too perfect with American accent.

[@dankenk]

Such a lovely couple

[@AsusROGmaximusXIIIextreme]

New realizing that his Russian wife is holding a communist flag

[@outsider7986]

I Love You Two. Brilliant content.

[@Afternoongamer]

Just wanted to say nastya ur beautiful and Tom i hope ur both doing good

[@scifijunky1979]

I’m curious, who’s holding the camera ?

[@PhanHai-vlog]

6 usd chỉ đủ ăn trong 2 ngày trong trường hợp bạn tự nấu ăn

[@rubiconwhiskey7135]

Ok young man…she is pretty and needs more money.

[@tshavfengvang7831]

How did Nastya speak English so good??🤔

[@mattstewart996]

Good video guys. Normally just see the shorts but your long format videos a really good :)

[@mandograssable]

Gosh, she is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

[@keithsweet8840]

What's her body count...

[@gianglai5412]

~ Hello.👋👋.Thank you. Tom. ~ I.Lo ve you. Việt Nam.👍👍 ❤💜❤💜❤💑👫👫👬👬👭

[@Clyde.artwork]

Their juxtapositions were hilarious

[@SailingAwayNZ]

I travelled Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand last year, I really liked Vietnam I felt safe and people seamed like they wanted to work unlike the people in the west, I didn't like Cambodia but Angkor wat is well worth seeing, Thailand was wonderful everyone was friendly and were happy to talk English to me

[@redpillmila]

Why do you rent a scooter with only having 6$. No sense

[@Sarah-db7du]

Me in Vietnam rn we have been traveling around south Vietnam with 18 people in total thanks to my family