bluekite2000

Congrats on the launch. Is there an email I can contact you for private questions?

You missed out on Saigon by picking Hanoi though :)

I doubt it (even though I run a dev shop w/ Vietnam based engineers). US companies will continue hiring US based engineers. And when Covid is over people will go to the office again.

Also wanted to add in developed countries (and by corollary, big cities) it is very hard to make friends once you are an adult. When I lived in Vietnam it is 10x easier to date/make friends/get involved in the local community (vs NYC,LA or SF)

East/West can work well as well. I have a team in Vietnam with USA clients and we just do 1h overlap per day. Too many meetings may not be a good thing.

I am here in Vietnam (and was in California a few months ago) and the difference is day and night. Lockdown is super strict here. Everyone wears mask (even when it is only a few cases out of millions). It is a 21 day mandatory quarantine (if you get approved to get in). The results speak for itself.

Wait till Asia's borders open. The fanout will go transpacific. Especially in Southeast Asia.

It depends on how you manage the workload I think. I am based in California (and so is my client) and we have a team in Hanoi, Vietnam. We get a lot done as many tasks are done asynchronously. Plus we can deploy when the users in US are sleeping :)

A few years ago I had to commute from Orange county to Manhattan Beach. It takes 1 hour to get to the office (leaving at 5:15am in the morning) and 1.5 hour to get home (leaving at 4pm). By the time I got home I felt dead. It was a 30 mile trip. So to me the long commute is what makes WFH convincing.

>Trust in the government is at an all time high. Just to clarify you mean trust in the government to handle the pandemic right?

Do you use a service for bookkeeping?

What do you mean set up correctly? And how does 112K turn into 40K taxable?

Any tech dev/company in Bay Area want to set up shop in Vietnam? And live a more balanced life (in terms of dating, traveling, eating good food, etc)? I can help be your local point of contact.

I am in LA and a friend tells me he can't hire good in house engineers locally. When I suggest Vietnam/etc he indeed mentioned tradeoffs regarding timeshift/culture. I guess you can't have it both ways.

I would replace Nhatrang with Danang. Danang is the next big coastal tech hub now.