Monthly Cost Of Living In Saigon, Vietnam 🇻🇳 (2024)

You could even spend under half of your total amount and still live comfortably, Vietnam is great 🇻🇳🙏

I am staying in District 2 for the last 3 months, covering everything from food, transportation, housing, utilities and daily trip to bars for 2-3 beers, sometimes a bottle of whiskey. Pay about 2500 USD a month. I don't pay for gym membership since the place I stay in has a gym on the second floor. The food I normally eat is from a normal restaurant to high-end and sometimes buffet. My place is a 2 bedroom, about 100m2, fully furnished, had the owner converted one of the room into an office space. I also use Grab but only pick cars since I am a big dude and most motorbike Grab will have issues driving me around. Had to sign a 1 year lease for my condo, paying 1200 USD a month for it. I pay for health insurance which is around 40 USD a month, covers, everything including hospital stays in private international hospitals. I am paying on the high end but it's more of a western living standard but seen people with no issues budgeting about 2000 USD a month for a smaller housing accommodation..

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I can’t wait to come back!!! I’ll be roaming around Saigon in a few weeks time. I miss it so much. Watching you walk around is making me feel like it can’t come soon enough. Cheers David! Safe travels brother.

Glad to see you back in Vietnam, David.

Love this 😊

You should get the 5 yr visa exempt so you only have to do visa run every 6 months. It's very cheap comparing to getting a bunch of 1 or 3 month visas. Only thing to keep in mind is, if you only have 3 year left on your passport, they will only give you a 3 year visa exempt so you will need to apply for another visa exempt once you get your new passport.

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I have been to Bo Ne Ba Nui 2 to 3 times and it's within walking distance from Cho Ben Thanh. I highly recommend it. Thanks for doing this David. Godspeed!!

hope you are there when i go next year to vietnam. all the best dave

In my opinon, It is depends on your budget. ( rent is included) 100$ skimp 200$ barely 500$ budget friendly 1000$ middle classes 3000$ and up luxurious. Countryside and suburbs will be much cheaper ( 30-50%)

New sub here, I really enjoy watching all your travel videos especially Japan, Thailand and Vietnam. Thanks to your videos, I'm planning my 1st trip to Vietnam. Love your videos mate 👍

Nice video. I lived in Nha Be for a few years. It was very good.

For people who are earning income from other countries , or the foreign investors or businessmen, Vietnam is very affordable, but not for the majority of the locals . Same goes to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and many other developing countries, foreigners expatriates think these countries are heaven as long as they are earning income from elsewhere.

I just love watching u eating the Vietnamese beef noodles.Makes me hungry😋

Wow, HCM is a lot more expensive than Da Nang. We have a similar place in Da Nang for $15/day ($450/month) + electricity. It includes water, internet and 1x/wk housecleaning. Great video as always! Thank you for your time.

I'm thinking of retiring in Vietnam. I love the food. Oh my God. The food is heaven.

wait for this clip for a longgggg time

so nice!

David, from that summary of monthly $, probably safe to say it'd be average slightly lower scale of comfort living at $700/mo usd to higher end of $1200-$1500/mo depending mostly on rent that's spent - sure you can have a 2-3br in a high-rise luxury place in a prime location for double/triple that, like the place you were 'in' initially, but normal comfortable total could be as low as $1000 to $1300/mo with all western amenities and expenses, not including any vehicle purchase/insurance/licensing and taxes, medical insurance/travel fees to-from other side trips or day vacations or walkabouts you take, plus the entertainment fees of tourist-type or even historic sites you visit, and normal fees to enter parks, special events, show, alcohol and bar-type places you go, or boat/jet-ski/bicycle/horse/elephant/amusement park type rides either. So non-splurging total probably a minimum of $1350-$1500/mo lower middle end actual cost being practical and real. Still way cheaper than the cost of Aussie/USA/Europe living expense, and a heck of a lot more fun seeing it in a much different culture's less stressful healthier light rather than our western-styled gluttonous-needy-equal or outdo the neighbor type unhealthy lifestyle many of us have and live. Many will disagree with me, but this just is my jaded opinion.