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The city guide
your family needs

Written for families arriving on international assignment. Every school, neighbourhood, clinic and restaurant in it has been checked by a person — and nothing in it can be bought.

Ho Chi Minh City · First edition Free to read Seven languages Works offline
You are relocating

Everything you need, before you land.

Choose a school. Choose a neighbourhood. Find a doctor, a gym, and somewhere to eat on your first Friday night — in your own language, without a search engine guessing at what you meant.

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A settled family stays.

Mobility teams, international schools and relocation partners use the guide to shorten the settling-in curve — and to reach families at the moment the assignment is offered, not the week they arrive.

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850+
Listings verified
for this city
143
Original articles
in the guide
17
Curated categories
7
Languages
at launch
5
Cities in build
Monthly
Re-verification cycle,
by design
01

Five things decide whether an assignment works.

A family can get four of them right and have the fifth sink the posting. The whole guide is built around them, in the order they actually happen.

1

Prepare

The groundwork before departure — the country, the paperwork, and the decisions far easier made early than late.

2

Choose the right school

For a family with children, the highest-consequence decision of the move, and the hardest to reverse mid-year.

3

Choose the right neighbourhood

Where daily life actually happens. A mismatch here is a leading preventable cause of an unhappy assignment.

4

Create community

Purpose and belonging in a new city — especially for the accompanying partner, who arrives without the structure of a job.

5

Have a great time

The experiences that are the reward of the posting, and the proof that the move was worth making.

02

Three promises, and we hold all of them.

Not marketing positions. These are the rules the guide is built under, and the reason relocation partners and HR teams are willing to hand it to their people.

Advertising never touches the content

An advertiser cannot buy its way into the guide, up the order, or out of a fair description. Listings are ordered by an objective rule, and every venue clears the same verification bar whether it pays us or not.

A person checked it

Every listing is verified against the venue's own current source rather than an aggregator — and re-checked on a monthly cycle, because a guide that was right last year is not a guide.

We are not a relocation company

We do not move you, lease for you, or manage your assignment, and we never will. That limit is permanent — it is what lets us be genuinely useful to the companies who do.

03

Three sections, in the order the move happens.

Section one

Preparations

The pre-arrival phase. Understanding the country before you commit to it, and getting the consequential decisions made while they are still cheap to change.

Carries Prepare · Choose the right school

Section two

Soft Landing

Arrival and the first months. Neighbourhoods, healthcare, banking and schooling in practice — and the harder work of building a life rather than just a household.

Carries Create community · Choose the right neighbourhood

Section three

Living the Life

The settled, experiential phase — where to eat, drink, train, shop, worship, and take the children on a wet Sunday. The part that makes people glad they came.

Carries Have a great time

04

The guide we weren't allowed to make the first time.

In 2009 we built a relocation guide for a single international school. It was good, and it worked, and it was not objective — it existed to sell one school.

The relocation companies who handed it to arriving families gave us the same verdict, independently and repeatedly: it needed a genuinely objective education section to be worth anything to the people receiving it.

The market asked for objectivity. It was never a position we imposed on it.

Building the neutral, multi-school guide that first product was not allowed to be is the reason this company exists. Everything downstream — the verification discipline, the firewall between advertising and content, the refusal to enter the logistics business — follows from that one correction.

05

Ho Chi Minh City first.

Each city is built to the same template and the same standard. The order is set by where families are actually being sent.

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