American Air Force vet’s 2-bedroom apartment in Vietnam
In 2019, 36 -year -old Markeiz Ryan made a journey to Vietnam before leaving the US Air Force, and this experience changed the course of his life.
“It just looked so much fun, and really lived all Hype, Ryan says Ryan CNBC Make It. “I finally had the best time of my life and this depression [just] gone.”
Ryan says he doesn’t want to leave this feeling from the first visit to Vietnam and how happy he was there. He began to plan his return to the country.
The veteran returned to his life in the United States and the Air Force, where he completed his service at his military base in Wyoming before he was discharged in an honorable way in 2019.
Ryan’s favorite part of the apartment is his view.
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Shortly after leaving the Air Force, Ryan moved to Vietnam, where he lived about $ 4,000 per month, according to the documents reviewed by CNBC. Monthly income, va disability, master’s degree has been due to various sources such as GI invoice and English teaching. Ryan also takes strange things like voice actor from time to time and is an enthusiastic fan of daily trade.
Ryan has suffered from spine arthritis, respiratory problems, auditory pain and mental health difficulties since the time in the army.
“This may not come too much in America, but trust me, this is more than enough to be above the middle or middle class in Vietnam,” he says.
When Ryan first came, he has long worked with a friend and real estate agent to find his first apartment. Due to all noise pollution, it moved a lot at first. He also wanted to take advantage of low rental prices during the Covid-19 pandemia.
“Too much Honing, street vendor and sometimes karaoke really loud, so if you’re very tolerant of noise, this may not be a place for you,” he says.
Ryan says he has no plan to leave this apartment.
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In 2023, Ryan moved to the apartment with a two -bedroom, two -bedrooms, where he was currently residing in Ho Chi Minh City. In one of the highest housing towers in the country. Ryan says that what he loves the most is the landscape.
“The landscape is very good here. I can’t pass for everything. I will never resign unless I get out of me, or he says.
Public services, electricity, water and cleaning, including approximately $ 130 rolling.
This is the fourth office of Ryan since he moved to Vietnam in 2019.
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Ryan has no plan to leave the apartment or Vietnam in this field for two years.
“If I leave, Vietnam told me to go. I didn’t feel very motivated in America. No matter how hard you work, you are still in poverty. You are chasing a standard that you can’t achieve constantly.”
“Here, in Vietnam, it takes a lot of money pressure. You are focusing on what makes you happy, who you want to be, and how to get there.”
Ryan lives in one of the highest housing towers in the country in Ho Chi Minh.
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This experience says how his life is in the USA
“Not things I need to do every day, I wake up with a long list of things I want to do, and this is a completely different lifestyle. Even if you work here for 40 hours a week, you do it as an investment in your future.
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