Positive: Russia, specifically the Russian Far East. I did not really know anything at all about Russia (especially the part I wound up living in) before I went there so all I really had in my head going in was image search results and Grupa Krovi by Viktor Tsoi. It was awesome. My work got canceled at one point due to a blizzard and I stood in the middle of the road downtown (nobody was driving) and ate a an ice cream cone I bought from a local convenience store as the wind blew snow sideways through the air in such quantity and force that I could not see more than 50 feet away in any direction. And, even when blizzards were not happening, it was an absolutely beautiful place and, since I was in a coastal city, it had beautiful sunsets. It was like a Russian version of what I imagine Alaska must be like. The friendliness of Russians and the lack of political correctness is also very endearing. Russian culture also prizes intellectualism and intelligence (the genuine kind, not the pseudo-intellectual postmodern obscurantism that is popular in the Anglosphere) so it is possible to actually make friends and form real relationship with people there.
Negative: Hanoi. Vietnam is a nice country with very nice people and it is generally a good place to live. I would recommend choosing a different city and not anchoring yourself to Hanoi though as, while there are a number of attractive women there, it is more polluted, less walkable, has less historical stuff, and generally has a lot less to do than I had anticipated. I stayed for a month but was bored within a couple of weeks which is not good for a city of Hanoi's size. To Hanoi's credit though, the cost-value ratio is great and you can live there on a budget pretty easily if you actually understand what things are supposed to cost and know how to haggle (this is not a foreigner thing but a deeply ingrained cultural tradition that everyone practices and people will think you are weird if you do not haggle). So Hanoi is not a total bust and certainly not the worst place I've ever been. I just went in with expectations that may have been unrealistically high so I was a bit underwhelmed.
Also, while the enforcement varies, it is technically illegal, as far as I understand, for foreigners to bring girls to their hotel rooms and/or said girl(s) will at least have to present their ID to the hotel staff which many girls don't like because it makes them feel like hookers (which is the intention). What this means is that you will have a harder time banging girls in your hotel than you would in another country and you might (though this is uncommon, it does happen) find your hotel room getting raided by the Peoples' Public Security Force (Communist police) at stupid o'clock in the morning or night to make sure that you don't have any hookers in there. To get around this, a lot of guys rent two rooms (one for themselves and one for the girl) so that the girl is not in their room but this obviously costs a lot more money and is a logistical hassle as you would typically have to reserve her room in advance, meaning you can't just pick her up and bring her back to your place, and, if you don't reserve in advance but just pick a girl up that day, you may get blocked by the hotel staff and/or authorities because the hotel already rented out all the rooms and they have no vacancy.
If you have an apartment, then you can bring girls there but this means you would need to be staying at least long enough to get an apartment. In general though, Vietnam gave me the impression that, while you can certainly have ONS there, it is more of a relationship country where you would go if you want a girlfriend or wife as opposed to a quick bang or two.
Negative: Hanoi. Vietnam is a nice country with very nice people and it is generally a good place to live. I would recommend choosing a different city and not anchoring yourself to Hanoi though as, while there are a number of attractive women there, it is more polluted, less walkable, has less historical stuff, and generally has a lot less to do than I had anticipated. I stayed for a month but was bored within a couple of weeks which is not good for a city of Hanoi's size. To Hanoi's credit though, the cost-value ratio is great and you can live there on a budget pretty easily if you actually understand what things are supposed to cost and know how to haggle (this is not a foreigner thing but a deeply ingrained cultural tradition that everyone practices and people will think you are weird if you do not haggle). So Hanoi is not a total bust and certainly not the worst place I've ever been. I just went in with expectations that may have been unrealistically high so I was a bit underwhelmed.
Also, while the enforcement varies, it is technically illegal, as far as I understand, for foreigners to bring girls to their hotel rooms and/or said girl(s) will at least have to present their ID to the hotel staff which many girls don't like because it makes them feel like hookers (which is the intention). What this means is that you will have a harder time banging girls in your hotel than you would in another country and you might (though this is uncommon, it does happen) find your hotel room getting raided by the Peoples' Public Security Force (Communist police) at stupid o'clock in the morning or night to make sure that you don't have any hookers in there. To get around this, a lot of guys rent two rooms (one for themselves and one for the girl) so that the girl is not in their room but this obviously costs a lot more money and is a logistical hassle as you would typically have to reserve her room in advance, meaning you can't just pick her up and bring her back to your place, and, if you don't reserve in advance but just pick a girl up that day, you may get blocked by the hotel staff and/or authorities because the hotel already rented out all the rooms and they have no vacancy.
If you have an apartment, then you can bring girls there but this means you would need to be staying at least long enough to get an apartment. In general though, Vietnam gave me the impression that, while you can certainly have ONS there, it is more of a relationship country where you would go if you want a girlfriend or wife as opposed to a quick bang or two.