Saigon was renamed to Ho Chi Minh City but a lot of people still refer to it as Saigon. The names are pretty interchangeable but HCMC is the official name. There are smaller towns and I will likely check them out in the not too distant future. Don't get me wrong, I still really like it here I think the population density is just a bit too much for my liking. Where I last lived we had a similar population number but it was over a much larger expanse of land. Here is just so crowded everywhere you go.