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[rpulayya]

Hello everyone! My fianc� and I will be moving to Vietnam in late August. We are currently teaching English in Vietnam. We will be new to the scene of moving to a country without having a job secured before. We are both American citizens who will have one year of teaching experience at middle schools with our TESOL certificate. We would like to live in the Saigon area and we don't know where to start. We have been sending out emails to different schools but never get any replies. Everyone we talk to says that you must be in Vietnam in order to get a teaching job. Any advice, suggestions, comments would be extremely helpful.

How do we deal with the VISA process? Will we have to make visa runs?
How hard is it to find a job?

Is Saigon the best area to teach? Or does it make sense to teach outside of the city

Where can you make the most money?

Are their jobs outside of teaching that foreigners can get? (I have over 3 years of sales experience, worked for HSBC)

What district is the best to live in? We would like to live around some foreigners.What apartments? What are the prices?

How much money do you think on average one can make with our experience per month? (In Korea we make about 1800USD per month)

I would really like to thank everyone in advance for your help. This will be very exciting and we are looking to make some good friends in Vietnam.

Thanks,

Randy Pulayya
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www.ourkoreanteapot.com