I was living in Vietnam for 5 years on an average of $5 USD per day and I was always saving money and planning ahead and it was great. Everybody told me that I had to spend all of my money because they had no money and everybody is in debt and that is normalized and is required and expected and people think I am insane if I told them and whenever I told people I had around one to two thousand dollars in savings while in Vietnam and they would always get mad at me and they were jealous and I would sometimes ask for help and advice and they did not understand why i was trying to save even more money. Many Vietnamese say they spend all of their money and then borrow from relatives.