Transportation

I went home this week to attend my cousin wedding. I flew to Saigon first then took the bus back to Nha Trang that night. It was my first time taking a sleeping bus which was quite comfortable. Each one get our own bed and there are tv and restroom installed on the bus. I slept comfortably until we arrived to Cam Ranh. This type of transportation and service were not available while I was living in Vietnam before 2000. Now it is so simple to travel all around Vietnam. It seems like now more and more people can afford a flight ticket to travel from Northern Vietnam to Southern Vietnam. New airports are opening up to accommodate the demands. There are more busses that travel all around. There are taxi everywhere and offices that sell bus tickets all over the place. Travel have become more convenient and affordable. Development provides access to many thing but one important one is transportation. It allows people to migrate and move about elsewhere that they can have better opportunity to work and live. It allows goods to be transport all over the world. Not only that, banks are another thing I noticed that is developing. There will be probably about 3-5 banks that I can spot within a 2-3 kilometers. Bank is also a form of transportation, money transportation. Bank is a symbol of development in which development is about economically blooming. People now actually uses the services that bank provides and have money to put into bank accounts. In my hometown a bank have just opened across from my house. Before people will have to travel out of my town to a bigger city to go to the bank, but now it is across the street! Living in America, a "developed" country, we can easily gain access to a lot of things. Same thing is happening in Vietnam that I am spotting every time I look around while chilling on the motobike. More and more things are becoming available in Vietnam that have never before. However, all of this also comes with changes in lifestyle and needs. Development is like a long ass domino chain, once you knock down one domino, the whole chain will be effected. Once development creates or introduces all of these new things, there will be other things accompany of these new creations.