Hometown (co dinh, luon co)

Where is your hometown? It's Bien Hoa, which is about thirty kilometres east of Ho Chi Minh City. Close enough that I go back most months. What do you like about it? The pace, mainly. It's a proper city but you can still cross it in twenty minutes, and I know the streets without thinking about it. Has it changed much in recent years? A lot, yes. There are two shopping centres that weren't there when I was at school, and the river area has been developed. Some of it I like, some of it I miss the old version. Would you like to live there in the future? Possibly, later. Not now — the work I do doesn't really exist there. But if I had children I'd think about it seriously.