Vietnam Life in The Countryside
Vietnam is still a highly agrarian society with eighty percent of the population living in rural villages scattered throughout the lowlands, mountainous areas and the coastal line. The countryside in the lowlands of Vietnam is filled with bamboo-hedged villages, beautiful patchworks of green paddies, hard-working farmers in their conical hats, and water buffaloes. South Vietnam travel tours
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With the habit of working in teams and being helpful to one another, villagers usually earn their living from farming, raising livestock and making handicrafts. They live in a small community with a temple or a communal cultural house where great events, such as festivals worshipping the village god and traditional games are organized. Villagers in the Southern usually live in houses lined up along central road and built on stilts to keep above flood waters. Along the coastal lines, fishermen depend on the sea as a means of livelihood. In the Central of Vietnam, a place suffering lots of natural disasters all the year round, citizens tend to be more studious and hard-working than those in regions with favorable conditions. People in the central highlands and the northern mountains lived by growing rice, rubber trees, coffee and tea as well as hunting. However, industrialization has created new types of work and different lifestyles in a country that used to depend mainly on agriculture. Instead of working in farms, many people choose to work in industrial zones or move to cities in search of a good job. Bai Tho Cruise Halong bay
Vietnam Life in the City
Unlike life in countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modern and complicated. People, from different regions, move to the cities in the hope of having a better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in city work as office secretaries, merchants, teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendor or construction workers. BASSAC CRUISE
The high cost of living requires city-dwellers, especially someone with low income to work harder or to take a part-time job. For some people, everyday start as usual by getting up in the early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a full day of working and studying, then immersing in crowed boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and returning home after a busy day. They usually live in large houses, great mansions, and high-rise apartment blocks or even in a small rental equipped with modern amenities like the internet, telephone, television, satellite communication facilities and so on. Industrialization and modernization as well as global integration have big impact on lifestyle in the cities. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The “Ao Dai”- Vietnamese traditional clothes are no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women daily life. Instead, jeans, T-shirt and fashionable clothes are widely preferred.
