From the states of Texas & Florida....escaped USA 2013. Lived and operated a business in South America before moving to Asia.
I joined expat.com on 30 July 2015.
Love the coastal life. Vung Tau is nice.
Beautiful, livable city. Wonderful clean air, very little noise, strong breeze at least part of every day. You can survive in Vung Tau with ease and I like the vecinity to HCMC.
I like almost everything here.
Restaurant Owner.
Very traquil small town in the mountains with almost perfect weather. A very safe town that you can walk the streets day or night. Local produce and meat is avaiable daily and if you want fresh fruits, veggies and non-industrial beef then you will be very happy here. Food is very wholesome in Jerico though limited in variety of recipe. Very affordable place to live. Small town but still has a hospital, plenty of local law enforcement if needed[in two years I never had a conversation with a policeman though they walk by every day and the police station is just two three blocks from my house, police are non-instrusive in Colombia and don't interject themselves into peoples lives for attention and harrassment like in the USA] and very clean air and public water. If you have a partner or you young and interested in a local the nightlife can be a lot of fun in Jerico. Absolutely everything in the pueblo is within 15 minute walk from center of town. You can get a car or moto but it's not needed. 1 Bedroom apartment can be found for $110 a month and up.
Remote, limited selection in everything, no cinema, there are restaurants but most serve the same Colombian fare, absolutely no real international nor ethnic food choices. Local attempts at pizza and burgers are just as of 2015 finally becoming available that are desireable at one or two restaurants..the others...burgers are pretty bad by my standards and Colombian pizza is an true abomination. I haven't been everywhere but to date Colombians make the worst pizza of any country I have visited so far in my life....You would think that they would use the internet to learn what pizza should be like but true to Colombian ways they insist doing pizza their way and their way is horrible usually..why? because Colombians always use the absolutely cheapest priced ingredient and always refuse to use a better quality product! Living in Colombia you will be served beans so many days you will want to die and it's said because Colombia has many fresh ingredients for some better food and I'm not saying expensive but the locals have no experience in baking, etc. Colombian food is very wanting very limited in normal daily life. There is a heavy dependence on salt and sugar and absolutely NO and I mean NO USE OF PEPPER. Life without pepper is boring and I mean depressing after awhile being a guy form Texas. If you want to put pepper on your food you will have to carry around your own pepper shaker as the restaurants and homes refuse to stock any form of pepper or spicy with on local exception called Aji Picante which is a very spicy pepper relish made from crushed Scotch Bonnet peppers and is delicious but not very one has it.