mekongeye – By Nhung Nguyen
28 November 2022 at 7:00 (Updated on 28 November 2022 at 15:02)
Vietnamese farmers flee the Delta for city jobs as climate change, droughts and creeping saltwater take a toll.

Tu Day, 58, and her husband, 63, in their small rented room in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The couple moved to the city in 2016 after environmental changes left their fish farm in the Mekong Delta unprofitable. PHOTO: Thanh Nguyen
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM – At 63, Nguyen Thi Ngoc landed her first full-time ‘company’ job as a security guard in Ho Chi Minh City. She had never been to a city before taking the job in early 2021, but the former farmer from the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam was indifferent to the urban bustle of the country’s largest city.
“I came here to work, make some money, not to play around,” she said, while sitting outside the semi-abandoned housing complex she guarded. “In the past six months, the only place I have visited is the market.”
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