I use saigon in casual conversation and ho chi minh city in all formal communications or during interviews or while speaking to someone in office. On envelopes it's tp. hcm which is. Official subreddit dedicated to the city of saigon, vietnam and the little saigon's located all over the world. In saigon, people answered the name is saigon, but most of them also accept hcmc. A few locals answered, the only name is saigon, and hcmc is the name given by the north.
Old people tend to used saigon to talk about a specific location in ho chi minh city, like where it used to be saigon before city and districts expand. Ho chi minh city used to be smaller. Official subreddit dedicated to the city of saigon, vietnam and the little saigon's located all over the world. As a foreigner living in canada, every vietnamese person i talk to here says saigon. But when i consume media from vietnamese people on youtube they use hcmc and saigon both, but.
