honestly when we first got here we didn't think so
it takes a little while to sort of find your feet
uh
hi guys welcome back to another video i'm mandy and that's lloyd and we're digital nomads that
currently live in bali indonesia so if you like this video please hit the like button
and subscribe to our channel so we've had uh quite a few people messaging us about what's the
best place to live in bali so we've pretty much been everywhere in bali since we've been here
about four months and um we settled on changu we think it's the best place to live in bali we're
going to take you with us for a regular day here in chengu i've just been to jiu jitsu at bali mma
mandy's been to yoga yeah we've got to leave the room because the clean is going to come and do his
twice weekly clean yeah which is pretty amazing uh we really like chengu because it seems like
everyone has their activity that they do in the morning whatever if it's surfing yoga you
know martial arts whatever it is that you're into there's a spot that you can do literally anything
even horseback riding there's somewhere here you can do that as well yeah it feels like everyone
sort of does that in the morning and then in the afternoons everyone sort of goes migrates to the
beach which is really cool and it's really busy down there and a really cool vibe in the afternoon
so we'll show you guys that as well and uh yeah just walk you through what it's like living here
we're actually just gonna go check out a podcast recording studio we just finished doing our first
ever episode which we filmed in here it wasn't too bad but the sound quality could be better
yeah yeah we want to keep improving upon it but we will link our first podcast episode down below
if you're interested in listening to a bit more of our back stories and yeah
there
yeah it does there's a skateboard in here
music school where are we
doesn't feel like we're in bali anymore
it's really cool
so is it always like this or is it
and music studio with podcast studio the price for craft beer in bali is insane i don't even think
i would pay that back i don't know
95 000 for a year that's like
with tax it's gonna be over ten dollars aussie for the cooking when i drink craft beer
pretty good we just don't know what the setup is going to look like yeah i'm going to come back
because somebody was using it but it seems pretty good
a quick haircut in between seeing podcast studios yeah we had to kill half an hour yeah
great
worries
so this is changu's version of times square i'd say the busiest intersection in changu
if you want to go from one side to the other you have to use the shortcut
which is why also a good place to stop and have a beer
11 am every day and they're 50k it's pretty good
this place is currently in the regular rotation we haven't been here
in a few days it's so loud but um it's so good we always sit outside on the noisy road
when i die bury me and zombies
so beautiful
most important part
and a really cheap place on facebook marketplace for us to stay next month we messaged the guy
and we went and looked at it but he didn't come and meet us we actually had to knock on
the door and the staff showed us through it's really good we're going to take it but when we
told him we're going to take it he just sent me an invoice to pay up front which i was a little
bit hesitant about because he wasn't even there and we didn't meet him and now he wants us to
pay all this money up front so i got him down to paying just half as a deposit to secure it for
next month i'm still a little bit unsure whether or not we should do it so we're going to drive up
and we're going to show the invoice to the staff there and just make sure that this isn't some scam
not that i don't like trust him or anything but i don't even know never met him and i feel like
this could be one of those things where you hand over money and then realize you got scammed and
put it up on the facebook group and everyone says well you shouldn't have handed over money
come okay so after a little bit of translating they told me yes that's a legit invoice if we
pay that that preserves the room um it was a bit tricky because i didn't i was asking if i'm
gonna get scammed and i don't know what scam means obviously but um just with using google translate
um we figured out yes that the person who invoiced us and messaged us does work for this guest house
so we're gonna book it just keep that in mind like if you're not actually meeting somebody
and they send you an invoice like i have seen a lot of people on facebook groups getting
like tricked out of money by doing that reserving a property
paying up front and then the person just disappears so just double check
so the place that we're moving into next month is about 400 us dollars a month
um whereas this one's about 700 that we're in at the moment which is pretty nice but
the difference isn't that big no it's pretty nice this place um this new place and it's a
little bit further from the beach but like it's a probably two minute scooter ride anyway yeah
that's definitely something that we would say is one of the best parts about changu
is the different types of accommodation you can get here for very cheap as you can see
from today like there's lots of co-working spaces the podcast studio lots of creative spaces for
people who work online yeah and just the balance the the work-life balance is so good yeah and
having like cleaning and laundry being affordable to have it done for you it just frees up a lot of
time to focus on whatever you want to focus on so for us it's been like really good for that went
to the beauty salon before as well and things like that like getting your eyebrows or eyelashes that
sort of stuff is also really affordable which is really nice yep you can get a massage for you know
eight dollars us for a 60 minute massage very good um and also i think one of the best parts about
changu in particular is there's lots of young people here young people who are into their health
into creating different types of income online but you know if you're somebody who wants to
party there's that here as well yeah for sure as far as if changu's worth the hype i think
it is but honestly when we first got here we didn't think so no because it was our
first introduction to bali and as you might have seen in one of our previous videos we got dengue
fever within the first week yeah and that put us off a little bit because when you get really
sick somewhere it kind of just taints the spot a little bit yeah it did inflict a little bit of
fear going anywhere because we were scared we were going to get it again but um it was also
really dead compared to how it is now the vibe of changu in the past three months has changed
so drastically it takes a little while to sort of find your feet here because you need to understand
like how everything works and where to go to find like really good cheap food like we were going to
really expensive restaurants because we didn't know where to go yeah so we thought oh changu is
really expensive but it's not no no you just have to know the right places to go so i do recommend
if you're wanting to come here and move give it a few months to get your feet and find where you're
you know where you're meant to be because it took us a while to figure it all out and honestly
everyone says that like it takes your even your body a couple of months to get accustomed to like
the hard water um the different food changing diet the humidity everything yeah but we have
a bit of work to do so we're going to finish off today do it with a work day and tomorrow's
the day off so we're going to take you guys around and show you a little bit more of changu
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