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I do a lot of complaining about congestion of traffic, about noise and about how many of the streets are not big enough to accommodate all the people that are using them in regards…

Recently I have been talking to some of the Koreans that I hang out with and they live and work here in a sort of strange, everyone knows they are working illegally but nobody ever…

Lately I have found myself in a bit of a "food slump" and after a month or so of having too much in the way of burgers and pizza and also being dead tired of the usual Vietnamese o…

This is something that I am both pleased about and also a bit upset about but I try to keep my tone a bit neutral when I talk about it because not only am I not Vietnamese, but I a…

Da Nang is a wonderful place and I enjoy living here for the most part although there are certain things about it that are beyond my control that if I could change them I would. O…

Virtually everything in Da Nang, and almost the entirety of Vietnam is a rather boring, cement rectangle. I'm not judging the Vietnamese because what else are you supposed to do …

Here in My An, Da Nang, Vietnam, we have almost any sort of cuisine you can imagine but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is very good. This next restaurant caught me by sur…

We joke about this a lot here in the expat community. It wasn't that long ago that there was a single solitary Indian restaurant in our part of Da Nang, which is considered to be …

I've named it the art park. There is no official designation for it to be a tourist attraction but since the pieces are all pretty good and in highly visible areas it does seems a…

I'm a big fan of street art, especially spray and especially especially when the person who made it clearly had permission to do so. I don't know if they were taking a page out …

Vietnam is a tropical country, Da Nang is a city very near the beach in that tropical country. Because of this, we get rain storms that last for days on end and when it happens, I…

I am writing this because recently a friend of mine was leaving the country and he offered to sell his motorbike really cheap to anyone that was willing to pay 4 million VND for it…

This is not something that is being admitted by anyone in charge or by the companies that were charged with making it happen. That's now how things work here. I am basing this o…

Over the years of living in a tropical country coming from a non-tropical one, I was very affected by the heat and humidity that exists here in Vietnam. For almost all of the year…

Vietnam has been threatening to do this for weeks and I guess they finally got around to it because today when I was popping out a few messages to friends I noticed the little spin…

When the crews came by and tore down this eyesore of a building on the beach and there was just an open space there for a time, I was hopeful that perhaps there was sort of reclama…

There is a fine line between having enough buildings to accommodate the tourists near or on the beach, and then overcrowding with those same buildings. Da Nang has allowed what I…

I have been teaching English online for the past 5 years using a company based out of China. They will hire people anywhere in the world if you are a native English speaker and ev…

Neither one of these are spray, but the are also custom and are not decals. Recently I was in a Mexican restaurant and at first I was amazed at how good their custom art was until…

I start to feel like I am always complaining but that isn't because this particular thing affects my life, it doesn't, at all. I am just disappointed because there was a real oppo…