Tuan Khanh (VietFact) - Translated by VNCH-Ngoc Truong - On the long road to the Hungtington Beach, Orange County, there are beautiful houses owned by Vietnamese. They are very young, or ordinary families but live close to themselves. My friend, a resident of the neighborhood, belonged to the first Vietnamese generation who came to the US after April 1975 (the fall of South Vietnam), saying those houses are "Viet Cong" settlement.
These homes have been bought real quick in the past few years - from $ 450,000 to more than $ 1 million, suggesting a huge source of foreign currency to move out of Vietnam, to build the American dream distinctly far away from Vietnam.
Most of these people speak the northern dialect. They have a very arrogant way of expressing themselves. A a local real estate agent and also a friend of mine, recounts the conversation with such a customer, and is told that the house was bought in cash, which the customer pronounced "fresh cash!".
Not only that place, recently has the Vietnamese community in Texas often said that the Bellaire neighborhood is growing with more and more presence of people who legally fled Vietnam. Not only do they spend money real fast to buy a house - this class of people possessed tons of money - they also buy commercial establishments. From nail salons for tens of thousands to supermarkets priced at over ten million dollars, a different generation of mindsets and way of thinking are wading into the anti-communist Vietnamese communities to look for habitation and survival. The community in the US with language and culture of Vietnamese people who are against communist government in Vietnam, Trầm Tử Thiêng, a musician once called "a Vietnam outside of Vietnam".
Thus, the billboards of immigration lawyers are growing as well as on radio and TV commercials, there are also invitations to get advice to get a green card to stay in the US permanently.
Sardonically to look back. Although the US is considered losing the Vietnam war as Vietnam propaganda, the target of destination of many Vietnamese officials is still America, not China's the so-called number one ally. Even the current red-cap(italists) officials in Vietnam spend a great deal of money hiding themselves and their children in the “hostile” country USA.