Da Nang was the first place I visited the moment travel became possible, and it had many things I wanted in a tourist destination: beaches, a laid back way of life, and cheap goods and services. These things don’t just appeal to the tourist in me, and I was also looking at a possible place to live in for a bit, even retire in. Call it “slow travel” or “digital nomadism”, this year I’m intending to work and live in other countries for a bit, and Da Nang was the first time I went on a holiday with an eye on whether the destination was somewhere I could spend a considerable amount of time in.

Cost of living

Cost of living has to be the biggest pro Da Nang has to offer. It’s possibly the first time I’ve been to a country where...