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To me, I find spending in Vietnam is easier than SG. This reference to my stayed in Hanoi. :D SG is too ex.

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haha...if you live like what you described then yes, you are absolutely right...but I live frugally in sinkie...take mrt, eat home made sandwiches, skip lunch, drink kopi o....still i feel living in hcm is cheaper if i live the same lifestyle...:)

in sinkie i dun eat much in restaurant...but i do patronise restaurant in hcm...and still find the price to be at least 1/3 or 1/2 cheaper...also in sinkie I no longer buy beer which cost Sgd 3.00 per can....but i drink a few local bia per day in saigon still only less than sgd 3.00...haha....:)

movies - sinkie cost sgd10.00...saigon cost 80k VND around SGd 4.80...:)

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UPDATE -

bad news from ICA... next move is MP liao.
anyway i got this feel when i asked for interview during the appeal for LTVP in May.
the encik did mention about see MP... this is a hint.

:(

also today my friend update me on his appeal thru MP for his pinoy wife PR also kana rejected..

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I really don't understand why ICA and the government are trying to be so difficult. Our country is moving towards "Big America". But what is your wife's educational level and her ability to speak English? The monthly income issue?

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Saigon bia :o

Really tasteless la.... 1/3 the kick of Heniken, Carlsberg or Tiger...

But I see them drink rice wines... power sia... can get a big bottle from their "mamashops" (can't really remember the price, but the impression is dirt cheap) and the taste.... gone in 30 seconds.... :(

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Just curious, what is "moving towards Big America"? :confused:

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Saigon do my favourite!!!

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Have u tried other brands of local beer? There are a few others as mentioned by bro Hurricane. Cannot 一竹竿打翻整艘船.

yes the rice wine is more powderful, and they can come in favours if homemade remember my FIL did a chuoi favoured for my Wedding dinner. Nice.

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I had tried all kinds of local beer...FBI, Larue Blue and red, Saigon Red and Green, 333, Ben Thanh, etc...even Tiger and Heineken is only 5% alcohol in Vn...so in fact Vn brew is lower in alcohol...that was their tax limit...hope you guys understand why u down a few and still sober compared to Sinkie Tiger and Heineken has higher alcohol contents...:)

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don't worry ....

just have to write in and keep appealing until they don't know how to say No to you, then they will give you .... jia you :p

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see MP not enough. write letter to Minister of state for home affairs, Minister for Home Affairs. :)

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haha...your MP will write to MOS...:)

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Hmm.. they have lowered their fees. That's good news :D

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If you live like this, then VN is of course cheaper. :D

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Not sure if true, i was told some MPs have stopped helping Singaporeans with foreign spouse to write letters to ICA.