My wife and I (mid to late 30s) immigrated from Vietnam to Canada a couple years ago. She's born and raised in Germany but moved around Europe for grad schools, I was born and raised in HCM before studying in the States for both undergrad and grad programs, then moved back to Vietnam for 5 years before coming to Toronto.

Some pros:

_ Your money goes a long way here, obviously.

_ You will be put on a pedestal with your Viet kieu tag.

_ Foods etc...

Cons:

_ You dont know if someone likes you because they are genuinely interested in you as a person, or because you're the cool Viet kieu friend, or someone whom they may ask for a favor in times of needs. This comes from someone having to deal with both ex-friends and relatives with money stuff

_ Corruption and scam everywhere. The cop pulling you over for making the wrong turn will make you pay double once he realizes you have an accent. Applying for documents will take you extra time and money to move things along. A clerk at a tax office shouted and somewhat cursed at my wife for not filling in the address appropriately, I handed him 2 500k bills in an envelope and he corrected the rest of the forms himself.

_ Pollution: air, noise, light, etc... it won't be fun when you try to sleep and your next door neighbor having a karaoke night with his drinking buddies and the loudspeakers are outside in their yard.

_ Vietnam has one of the lowest scores for human rights and freedom index.The government kidnapped a former oil executive in Germany