I mean.. isn’t it normal and logical that a house should be build that way.

@@weeewenye3160 Do you live in Vietnam? Yes it's normal here.

These houses are called townhouses in European countries and similar to those in Amsterdam or Copenhagen. However, inadequate development caused a messy appearance of the city because there’re modern and tall houses but still old and rundown buildings next to them. Wish they all have similar facade and height

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Yes

I agree.

House are probably made of cement/brick so the fire will have a hard time spreading but if the house is really messy on the outside or there is an explosion then yes it is still dangerous.

Definitely.

@@Yen-jw1ls yes. Building materials make a huge difference.

Sia Yen Chia yeah these houses are all made of cement and stone top to bottom. It's very uncommon to have wooden flooring.

Haha yes we hear things from next door neighbors sometimes but the thing is that everyone knows each other so that would be...

@@touche995 awkward! 😂

Moaning in pain kind?

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Pretty sure they use brick walls unlike the USA

That's really interesting, I hadn't heard of those before.

This is how most tube houses near the main road in VN are, 1st floor is a shop, and the rest are living space.

South east asian brothers

yea in Vietnam some families also take advantage of the 1st floor to open their own business, to sell something or for lease

Agree

Here in Indonesia most house have the length only about 2-3 times of its wide... but looks like house in Hanoi have length more than 10 times of its wide... i wonder how it feel if your private room is in the 5th floor... 😁

@@iwinlee it would make you exhausted everyday because you have all those narrow stairs to climb. Trust me, I am a heavy set wester woman (not a petite asian woman) and lived on the 5th floor for six months. My weight dropped 5kg but I nearly had a heart attack trying to get to my room daily. It was even worse when I had to do my food shopping and bring it back home.

@@iwinlee when I am staying with my husbands parents on the 4th floor it is hard to use the toilet everyday because I have to climb a ladder to get tonthe room to use the toilet and the bathroom. There is no space to build a toilet on every floor of these 4 metre wide houses in skinny winding alleys. Enough for one motorbike to fit through. Each floor is a open space for bedroom/dining room/loungeroom combined. Not enough room for a separate enclosed room.

@@veenaga71 this sounds like a great way to force people having exercise on daily basis... 5 kg in 6 months without specific diet plan 😆 i also have experience visiting my aunt's house for 2 weeks, and the only empty room is in 4th floor, so i can imagine your struggle... but fortunately, my aunt house have toilet & bathroom in every floor...

But if you get used to the stairs. you don't need to go to the Gym. I live in a 5-floor tube house and can't count how many times I run up and down the stairs. Not to mention my absent-mindedness LOL

Saigon does, too.

They're very common all over Vietnam. Even in the countryside villages you'll see loads of them.

I agree. It is not French but Chinese. Look at my comment. Today on this channel.

The french leave one thing though, the latinization of vietnamese. Vietnamese was once written in the alphabet same as the Chinese or Korean.

Too far away

lots of Vietnamese words are borrowed from French. Food-wise they left more than just baguettes

No, many French language and cultural influences are still left in Vietnam’s language (also known as loan words). A few examples can be “Pho mat” = fromage (cheese), “Va Li”= Valise (suitcase), “ca phe”= cafe (coffee), “ca rem”= creme (cream), and so much more.

@@estrogenoverdose no, the Vietnamese Latin alphabet was created in the 1650s by the Portuguese. That's 200 years before France started invading Vietnam. You're giving the French too much credit.

Same. Can you imagine the food

@@oldschool8432 is that sarcasm? I hope so, the food is trash lol

Please do. But plan your trip well. It is not like Thailand or Philippines or Hong Kong where there are enough English language signs or English speaking people to help get you by.

@@oldschool8432 don't mind the helicopter guy, I could eat only Vietnamese food for the rest of my life.

@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns I am sure their food is delicious. I would honestly love to travel there

You got it wrong with Spain they only colonized one Nation in Asia and the architecture is the same only in that nation (go figure out that nation if you would like)

@@amazingstar9522 what r u talking about. SA is south America.

@@amazingstar9522 Philippines

@@diegoaespitia i thought your talking about South east Asia cause this video is in Vietnam which part of South East Asia (SA) is also used for south east asia and south asia sorry about that then

@@fatimafaris3544 correct

But those American houses are the dream of Vietnamese here... *I guess people just love to be in a strange place for whatever reasons😅😅*

so true, both of you I have to agree. American houses took so much land

Yep

Actually they always have different wall. It is hard to share wall when one side want to innovate their house. So the house always has its own walls

@@minhvo4739 but then how do you keep gaps between the walls?

@@gazpachopolice7211 there is very small gap between 2 houses. In front and on roof top will be sealed with cements and designed the drain system to make sure no water go through the gap

@@minhvo4739 thanks.that was interesting to know.

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This is true. There are always trade-offs.

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You jump over to your neighbour

It happened frequently, trust me.

Well be prepare then.

Nope , what made them special is each house have it own design and colour , if you made rule and same colour then it become boring

Nah thats one of the flavours of Vietnam, the only thing I would codify is the price and requred green place, but the latter could be solved in many places with narrower streets and public transport

Actually, personally my neighborhood keep their gates/doors open for fresh air and close them when it's really late. But since the houses are usually made of cement it would keep the house cool.

Many houses have skylight

The houses are most commonly made from cement top to bottom (mostly because it keeps the house cool from the hot temperature), wooden flooring is really uncommon so houses catching on fire wouldn't be much of a worry. But wooden objects catching on fire? Don't really know about that.

We tried this, but being an export focus nation, the need for containers make it unaffordable.

What is SCMP videos.?

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Because it's culture thing and economic thing not land nor government thing. There are many regular premium houses you are familiar with are here in my neighborhood in Hanoi, but many of those are abandoned for years even 10 years now. The problem is not because they expensive, they are sold $100,000 for 6x8m2 the same price for a 3x10m2 tube house also cost the same or even 2x to 10x times more. The problem is that gor premium house, all you can do with it is live in it while in Tube house you can do much more with it. You can open a restaurant, extra class, a kindergarten, a clothes shop, turn it into a hotel or any business you want with it, you don't have to pay more for rent for business and if this business doesn't go well, you can just easily switch it to another different business on the same post. Many of thesd tube house have a very high value in city center for it's economically.

Golden Triangle probably

Who thinks that these days? Yes, there are drugs in Vietnam, but there are drugs everywhere. As the comment above mentions, maybe it's more the Golden Triangle border area between Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Or maybe this stereotype is referring to the war period. But much has changed since then. Yes, there are drugs and drug operations but there are drugs and drug operations everywhere, whether rich nation or poor nation, Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, North America, South America, the Middle East or Europe.

I just don't get it where did they got that. Yes there are drugs, but they are less common here than even compared to North America.

Dont do drugs in vietnam or south east asian, you probably get death sentence by doing it, carry a 0.01 milligrams of cocanium is death sentence.

Really? Anyone own 500g of drug will get dead penalty. And not same here, in Western, using drug is just your personal thing and most people don’t care. In Vietnam, drug user will be look down and discriminated by all people around. I’m not sure where you get this idea

I found foreigners often overemphasize the influences of the Chinese and French on the Vietnamese way of life.

Because maybe your mother lived on the countryside not metropolis. Hanoi is a metropolis capital with 8 millions population.

Your mother may live in a country side or some where else. This Ha Noi capital, not every place in Vietnam has this kind of tube houses. It's common but not every where and always pack.

I think most of them do have fairly compact cities.

That’s because these were the equivalent of Public housing in the French colonial period

They are similar to terrace houses here in Sydney, Australia which were once considered poor but are now considered very beautiful and sought after to live in.

It is not uncivilized. Its the condition that makes it look like that. You guys have to maintain it and keep it clean.

@@williamppl3624 I mean, you still have to take into account that many of these homes are also way older as well. Most the ones they showed looked maybe even pre-Vietnam war.

@@williamppl3624 Vietnam has a humid and tropical climate. Thus, there might be more maintenance for the houses. Also, not everyone in Vietnam can afford regular cleaning and maintenance of them. When I said "uncivilized", I meant the more society progresses, the more we have to be conscious about the community and the environment. So, it is in my opinion that the spontaneous tube houses in Vietnam do not meet my standard of civilized living.

You doesn't live in Vietnam. Overseas Vietnamese doesn't counted as a Vietnamese. You are a disgrace to your race.

Every floor has toilet and you can use the first floor as a garage

Looks better than alot of apartments, condos in SoCal unless you can afford at least $3K or more a month for rent. And you usually only get 1 spot for parking and sometimes it gets stolen when you're away for work.

Đó là do bạn chưa biết cách thiết kế cho phù hợp với nhu cầu sử dụng của bạn thôi, chúng tôi vẫn có thể thiết kế để được cả oto, xe máy và trồng được cả vườn cây trên sân thượng nữa mà.

*Death sentence nonetheless*

Does drug trade exist in vietnam too?

One of the drug gateways that's what I know

@@k-studio8112 most of them come from Golden Triangle

Why many people keep saying this? No we don't do drugs here. Drugs in Vietnam is not even as common as US because of the stricted laws against drugs here in Vietnam.