As my parents approach their retirement, I started to wonder where best they can settle down. Like many Vietnamese living overseas, my parents want to be near Vietnamese people, Vietnamese grocery stores, Vietnamese restaurants, and definitely Vietnamese churches and temples.
Orange County is no doubt a natural choice for my parents and maybe yours too. San Jose may also come at a close second. Chances are, your parents already live in one of these cities because 40 percent of Vietnamese Americans actually reside in California. But if they’re tired of sunny California, here are some alternatives they may not already know about.
The largest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans are in states California, Texas, Washington and Virginia. Almost half of the Vietnamese American population lives in the top five metropolitan areas, and 3 quarters are in the top 25 areas. To no surprise, Orange County is the largest settlement of Vietnamese living outside of Vietnam.
According to the 2000 US Census, Vietnamese Americans make up the fourth largest Asian ethnic group in the US with an estimated 1.12 million people. This figure nearly doubled from 593 thousand as recorded by the 1990 US Census. This growth may actually be an understatement because community leaders believe that the 2000 census count was short by 25 to 50 percent. With the 2010 US Census picking up steam, I wonder how much the Vietnamese American community has grown in the 21st century.
If your parents are tired of the US altogether, spending their retirement next to the Eifell Tower or the outback of Australia may not be bad choices. Below are some popular destinations with high concentrations of Vietnamese people. You can find a more comprehensive list of countries with Vietnamese living overseas here.
Vietnamese people are spread across at least 30 countries. But our community is highly concentrated in major metropolitan areas around the world. In my limited travels across Western Europe, I recall running into Vietnamese people and Vietnamese establishments in the most unexpected places – from a quaint Pho restaurant in Fribourg, Switzerland to a group of enthusiastic, Vietnamese-speaking Vietnamese Norwegians teenagers in Cologne, Germany. No matter where Vietnamese people are in the world, there’s always an unforgettable connection we share – our Vietnamese heritage. I look forward to the day that we can connect to Vietnamese people worlds apart at a click of a button. OneVietnam Network is one step closer to that dream. Stay tuned for our upcoming launch.
very nice article. :]
There's no place like the homeland Vietnam. My parents always wish they could someday retire in the hometown where our family is raised in. Many of us consider this is our second home… but truly in our heart there's nothing like home home.
@Phuong Vu. I agree with you. The best place for our parent, including me, is our native mother land. Eventhough America is the best place to live, clean, less dust, less noise, I still want to retire where I was born, grown up, cause so many of my childhood memories are here.
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I am looking for a Vietnamese personal care home, assisted living facility, or retirement community for my aging father. We live in Houston, Texas. Can you send some resources? Thanks.
I am a 44 years old married women,I have a son. He will be 18 in January and graduate high school in 6/20013. He is from my first married in VN. I remarried an American man and we came here to live with him for 6 years and 4 months. I live on the Island in Washing State where there is with out Vietnamese. My son doesn’t speak VNS with me even I speak VNS with him. I think my E is improving very slowly beacause they do not speak and understand my language to correct my E. I have acent so people here is hard to understand me. I fell so lonely. I want to have some one who can talk good both languages to help me but I can not find any one
I work as a caregiver( Taking care of elderly and disable people) for 4 years and some other chore job.I am a manicurist also,so please find me a job in your place then I will move there and help your father.
I came across this while I was trying to look for a Vietnamese based retirement home for my grandparents. Were you able to find a place for your parents? I am in desperate need to get to a retirement home but it truly needs to be a community of Vietnamese. I have called the only Westminster and Garden Grove retirement home but it is all majority caucasion. All the elderly Vietnamese are living with their children and grandchildren in a 2 bedroom home. Let me know if you have found a good place nearby.
Hi everyone. I’m an American Vietnamese who came back to Vietnam to work for the last 13 years. I’m looking at setting up a retirement community for overseas Vietnamese here in Vietnam. If anyone is interested in learning about this, feel free to contact me. Thuy
I do can you give me more info about rhis my email is cu_99@yahoo.com
Hi Thuy, are you a retirement community developer? If you are, can you please give more information about your set up in Vietnam? Thanks, RPM
nursing home for vietkieu in VN…. yeah what ever!!! whos gonna pay for it … the fuken vietnamese gov…. dream on !!!! vn dont have no welfare system what so ever because it is still a fuken third world economy… VN is still poor as hell …… just because they have one fuken high end brand store GUCCI alike in HCMC with the fuken nobody piece of shit going there… they think they are fuken rich or something…… SHIEETTT while america has dozens of them … thousands to be exact….. and people dont die of starvation like faken VN …… because of the dumb azz Vietnamese Government…… shiieeetttt !!!!
Does anyone know the phone number of the vietnamese community nursing home please help? My neighbor 85yrs old needs help… Recenty the Evil (new landlord) increased her rent $400 more per month, she can’t afford it so she is looking for the place to move. But i think nursing home is the better place for her since she will have dr/nurses and ppl around to help her when needed.
Please help.
Thank you
J
This is good article and can be a dream come true for alot of seniors if someone know wells about this service. I would like to know such community/service for vietnamese retirement. Please email me at ngavanc@yahoo.com
Going to VN to live with the fuken VC’s you guys are faken crazy !!!!! akakakakaaaa
right now VN is like a waste land…… citizens are dying of starvation !!!! because of the stupidity of the vietnamese government….. fuken VC’s akakaakak 10 years from now vietnam will be nothing but dog shits !!!!!!