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I spent 2 years on a motorbike going all over VN/Cambodia/Laos... you go outside of the cities and it is village after village of people with very little infras
by latchkey 3y ago
I spent 2 years on a motorbike going all over VN/Cambodia/Laos... you go outside of the cities and it is village after village of people with very little infrastructure. Gia Lai isn't that rural. I drove AH17 and QL14c. I'm thinking more in the North. Ha Giang, Cao Bang, even out to Sapa.
ALL of the borders are porous. I literally drove over the northern border into China at some random point, and there was nobody there. It is super easy to go back and forth. I also drove a lot of the trade routes along the border cut into the forests. ID cards aren't going to stop anything.
You are definitely correct about competency. No argument there.
- alephnerd 3y ago> I'm thinking more in the North. Ha Giang, Cao Bang, even out to Sapa Ah, the only parts of Vietnam poorer than Gia Lai. Fair enough. > Gia Lai isn't that rural On QL14c and AH17 it isn't, but in between those two highways it definetly is (think dirt roads, wooden shanties like you'd see in neighboring Mondulkiri/Ratanakiri). > ID cards aren't going to stop anything. If you are distributing social assistant payments, you need identification. If you leave identification to local PD (who are paid too little to care about being competent), it's not that difficult to bribe them to either add or remove you from a registry, or create multiple ghost identities in order to siphon social assistance payments (probably at the behest of the local party official). The only true form of identification that is tamper-proof is biometric. > ALL of the borders are porous Agreed, but Laos and Cambodia are significantly more impoverished than Vietnam, especially the portions of Cambodia and Laos neighboring VN. It's hard for someone there to migrate to Thailand like how Cambodians in Siem Reap or Laotians around Vientiane do.