LONG-DISTANCE WAIT: Lifting the ban on travel...

LONG-DISTANCE WAIT: Lifting the ban on travel to Vietnam has prompted many local immigrants to visit the homeland they fled in the 1970s. They want to see relatives, but--for some--economics can be a factor also (D7). . . . “Many of them have lost their jobs; they’d rather give up their expensive apartments to return to Vietnam and live with relatives to wait out the recession,” at least for a while, says Linh C. Tran, assistant manager of Travel World. “Naturally, it’s cheaper to live in Vietnam than anywhere in the U.S.”