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How does Vietnamese with $2000 monthly income live

Mr. Hoang Manh Su house’s

• Age: 25

• House type: Private Apartment

• Job: Sales Manager

• Family composition: only

young married couple

• Income (individual): 1000$ ~

2000$

• Income (family): 2000$ ~

3000$

• Address: District 2, HCMC

Apartment he live

• This is the new apartment building in district 2

• Around this apartment is some others apartment

• This is the new one apartment building, it’s just release in 2013

• In this house they have 2 young married couple

• They bought this house from the end of last year

Average Spending per month

Item Cost (VND) Cost (USD) Comment

House rent / loan 1,200,000,000 57,000 They bought it

Food 8,000,000 380 Almost eat outisde

Utilities 1,500,000 71 Stuff in house, electronic,

internet bill

Communications 1,000,000 47 Company pay for this bill

Transportation 2,000,000 95 They using motorbike

Entertainment 3,000,000 142 Cinema, music, bar

Clothing 2,000,000 95 For one month

Send back to home No sharing

Travel 5,000,000 476 For each times, 2 month/

times

Cosmetic 2,000,000 95

Total 24,500,000 1,306

$1=21,000VND

How They Live

• Weekdays activities:

– Usually after work they just go home, take a rest and watching TV or movie.

– They do not cook at home, except for cook instant noodle or have friend come to house for visit

• Weekend activities:

– The husband often go to playing football on Saturday night with his friend. After play game, they will go to drink together in local restaurant.

– On Sunday, sometimes husband will take his wife to shopping cloth and cosmetic in district 1 and 3

– They wake up very late at weekend.

– On Sunday night they just want to go to somewhere with soft relaxing like coffee, cinema

How They Live

• In his apartment, they have 1 bedroom, 1 wc, 1 kitchen and 1 living

room

• They do not cook at home, almost eating outside

• Their floor is 15

How they live

How they live