Ok, ok... most of Vietnam is hotter than Hades with high humidity. However, there is one city in the mountains that fits your stated desires... Dalat or Da Lat. Dalat enjoys springlike weather year-round and has high-speed internet. When I was there two years ago (2006), a new, very secure, two-bedroom apartment could be rented for $100 a month. At that time, you could have lived a reasonable lifestyle for $500 (not including car, but transportation is readily available or you could buy a motorcycle for $1000).

Here is an article that I wrote while in Dalat:
internationalliving dot com/countries/other_countries__1/asia/vietnam/country_archive/07_18_06 ... Big White Buddha
I also wrote several other stores that were never published plus one story that was published in the Internation Living print edition. If you contact me outside this forum, I would be happy to share as long as you agree not to post them.

As a hobby, I have been researching "Eternal Spring Living" types of locations worldwide... I have over 200 such cities in my database. There are two types of places that have "Eternal Spring" type climates, mountains in the tropics and sub-tropic beach/island locations with cold off-shore water. Dalat is an example of a tropical mountain paradise and San Diego or Sydney are examples of beach locations with near perfect weather. Again, if you contact me outside this forum, I would be happy to share as long as you agree not to post the data.

My plan is to move in a couple of years to a "Cheap location with spring-like weather and high-speed internet"... and I also make my living online. So, we have some common interests.

Ron