On the same subject, Jon Myers wrote a great blog post a number of years ago about living and working in Saigon that opened up many remote worker's eyes to the city:

https://medium.com/digital-nomad-stories/bootstrapping-in-sa...

And because I'm getting nostalgic, here's a great post on the incredible food there:

http://www.legalnomads.com/2014/06/saigon-street-food.html