Every country in this series eventually reveals a single sentence that explains it. Thailand offers dependability without belonging. Vietnam offers presence without permanence. Malaysia offers a formalized temporariness that is honest about what it is. The Philippines, to my surprise, turned out to offer durable legal permission over a life whose dependability you have to build privately. Indonesia is the hardest of the group to reduce to a sentence, because it does something none of the others quite manage: it makes you feel at home almost immediately, and then, the more seriously you try to make that feeling permanent, the more expensive and structurally awkward the whole thing becomes.