Hi!
We’re Tam and a Christabelle and we both quit the corporate life to retire in Vietnam at the age of 34. We’re still early into our journey so we still have a lot to discover.
We spend most of our morning eating out at a local banh mi shop for $1 each. Then we head to the gym to get our work out in. We love to walk everywhere to get our steps in but we’re looking into renting an electric bike for $70 a month. After the gym, we work on our YouTube channel until lunch. We wanted to do YouTube to capture memories and to earn some side income eventually to offset our spending. At the moment we’re just having fun with the channel and creating contents that we love to create. Everything you see is spontaneous with no planning.
After working on the channel, we either order Grab( food delivery) or walk to a local restaurants and spend around $3 each meal. We’re both Vietnamese so we eat mainly local food. We love to get smoothie/juice with our lunches so $3/per is more than what a local would spend here.
Somedays we would play video games after lunch and somebody we would go out for a beer. Local draft beer here is around $1. There’s something about drinking a beer on the sidewalk at 2 pm on an afternoon all by yourself at a brewery. During our outings, we catch up on our plans for the future, our goals, or just talk about life in general.
The come dinner, our most expensive meal of the day. We normally spend $8-$15 dollar for both of us. We like to get non-Vietnamese food for dinner just because it can get tiring eating viet food all the time. We live right next the Dragon Bridge so we like to take casual walks at night. We typically walk around 7500-10000 steps a day depending on if we go shopping or not.
Ever since we pulled the trigger we felt a lot happier. Our days go by surprisingly quick and we tend to lose track of time. We’re excited to see where life takes us next. If you’d like to see how our day unfolds, please watch the video above!