HANOI — Two years ago, former Google engineer Minh Hoang told his wife he was considering moving back to Vietnam, where both were born, after 10 years living in the U.S. She burst into tears.
The family of five had just moved house, enjoying a good lifestyle afforded by well-paying jobs the couple had in the world’s most advanced technology industry, the 40-year-old Hanoi native told Nikkei Asia. His wife, a data engineer at TikTok, was against relocating the family across the Pacific Ocean.
