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We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Hanoi has roughly six million motorbikes for about eight million people, and the sidewalks have been annexed as private parking. Pedestrians walk in the road, wade into traffic like a baptism, and pray. The city's council voted to ban motorbikes from the inner city, and everyone shrugged and revved their engines.
Hanoi is famous for the constant buzzing and honking, and for a public transport plan that has been about to start for twenty years. The big BRT bus experiment carved a dedicated lane out of the middle of the road and made the traffic worse. Hanoians don't have a transit system, they have a very loud, very confident lack of one.
Hanoians will tell you with a straight face that Saigon is a polluted den of thieves, while cracking sunflower seeds in a cafe and spitting the shells on the floor. Visitors describe the north as reserved, colder, and less friendly, which Hanoi hears as a compliment. You call yourself the country's heart, and Saigon calls itself the engine that pays for it.
Hanoi FC didn't exist until 2006, so the club bought its credibility with expensive foreign contracts. Its rivalry with Song Lam Nghe An pits a newcomer with a checkbook against a club with decades of history, and guess which side is which. Your capital's biggest club is a startup with a checkbook, while the fans in yellow from Nghe An show up and turn your stadium into their home game.
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