Everyone is an Entrepreneur in Vietnam

All the homes in Vietnam look like this one. Most families live all generations in one home, each generation on one of the floors. The first floor is built with a wide open front so that the owner may open it up as a place to sell products or services. Everyone in Vietnam is an entrepreneur, and usually works more than one job, and all family members bring home income to be shared by the family. There is very little debt, and like China the savings rate is very high among individuals. Dury our (very hot) tour of the city, we saw the old quarter where street after street was filled with small shops and street vendors selling everything from shoes to paint, to picture frames, to furniture. I would describe it as a horizontal Macy's. We would drive up "shoe street", then turn down "plumbing street", then a left on "electrical wire street". The "please haggle" policy was in effect. Offer one tenth or one twentieth the price and go from there. We saw many important landmarks in Hanoi, including the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the One Pillar Pagoda and the Hanoi Opera House.