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would you believe us if we told you that
bali indonesia is actually relatively
affordable
well stay tuned for the video and we'll
share our cost of living with you guys
and you can decide for yourselves
you're probably wondering whose cat this
is this is our guest house i'm a rich
barley guesthouse cat she's a stray cat
that just started coming here and
everyone at the house started feeding
her and two months ago she had five
kittens and we were there for the day of
the birth
and
then eventually she moved them away as
normal cats do and then
two or three days ago she brought them
back and they're like this big now we'll
try and oh yeah i've taken videos of
them we'll put the videos on the screen
they're so cute so we've got this cutie
patootie running around here and three
kittens
like this is not the best guest house
ever
speaking of the guesthouse that's where
we're currently staying now right now we
are paying 350 dollars for the month
here that includes all of our utilities
water electricity and internet and even
coffee sugar
creamer also drinking water is covered
yes house has got 12 rooms and a shared
swimming pool kitchen area there's two
fridges there's a little lounge area to
sit in there's these tables to eat
dinner at
and there's a stove
toaster there's even a blender which is
pretty cool
yeah and a whole bunch of plates and
everything is just included in that 350.
the staff also clean your rooms they
literally clean every day if that's what
you want we just ask them to come like
every third day they change your linen
they clean your room and yeah it's all
taken care of so that's all in the
for accommodation okay we've got a
couple of errands to run today and we're
going to do our cost of living while
taking you with us
these are the categories that we're
going to cover for the cost of living
we've just covered accommodation and
next up is transportation okay so
transportation this is our yamaha nmax
this is a sweet ride it's probably one
of the biggest bikes you can get here in
bali but it's great for road trips we
pay 900k a month for this bad boy we use
this company my bike rental for it
you can get smaller bikes
sometimes they are better because i
struggle to ride this is quite big for
me and heavy but yeah you can get
smaller bikes for around
650k a month petrol is ridiculously
cheap in bali we pay roughly around 60
to 100k a month maximum
so super super cheap and that's just
pretty much how we get around most of
the time i sometimes use a grab car if
it's going to rain or if i want to go a
long distance and i want to be air
conditioned because it's super hot in
bali
and the total of catching grabs and some
gojics is 250k so super cheap as well
super easy to use as well we use grab
and go jake those are the two main
transportation apps that you can use if
you don't want to ride your own bike so
the total for our transportation for the
month is 87
next on the list is cell phone plans we
use telcom sol when you land in bali
you'll get a sim card for around 200k
and that gives you sim card and like
four gigs data i think we pay around
100k per month for data for 30 gigs
well it's complicated but roughly gives
you 30 gigs of data that they do
separate it some is used for certain
applications but it lasts me the whole
month and i'm on instagram and tech talk
and youtube and all of that quite a lot
so the total for our phone bill for the
month is seven dollars super cheap all
right next on the list is gym and
protein so the gym's kind of a tricky
one if you want air conditioning gin
like this one right here it's about 650k
a month for your gym contracts if you're
okay with gyming out in the open
with like fans and stuff without air
conditioning you can go to a local gym
they range between 100k and 250 k for
the month or if you just want to do a
daily rate you can get access to the gym
for under two dollars a day
so it's super super cheap for the gym
here then protein is another thing that
we have it's about a million rdr for a
packet of protein and that lasts us two
months so we'd say 500k for the protein
so that brings our total for gym and
protein every month to 76
okay the next category on the list is
entertainment we usually play tennis i'd
say
at least twice a month so tennis is 329
000 for the both of us to play it's kind
of expensive but it's something we like
to do here
then we went to waterbomb which is like
a once off occasion we don't always do
that but that was 650k for the two of us
and then also claire's been having some
fun going to pottery lessons
uh that was 325k for the month so the
total is 93 for entertainment obviously
entertainment is so subjective it varies
everyone will have different things that
they enjoy doing if you enjoy going to
the brewery down the road you could
spend 93 at the brewery or surfing
lessons or atving there's a whole bunch
of things you can do so it really just
depends but 93 dollars is what we spent
the next category is quite an important
one and that is insurance both for our
personal effects when you're traveling
like our computers camera equipment all
of that is insured with our insurance
broker back home in south africa and
then we have travel insurance which
covers like our medical expenses on the
road any travel
hiccups that we might have like delayed
flights baggage getting lost that kind
of thing so our total for insurance is
167 a month if you don't have insurance
and you want to get traveling soon we
highly recommend checking out safety
wing especially traveling during these
days
with covert cover included we can really
recommend them we were put into
quarantine recently and they covered for
all of that they also covered our
flights home in 2020 when we needed to
rush back because of the pandemic so it
was a big big expense i think it came to
about two thousand four hundred dollars
for the flight straight direct from
singapore to south africa was a huge
expense which we were so lucky to get
back so very thankful to have safety
wing in our corner the next category is
utilities we don't have any utilities as
we discuss in the accommodation section
utilities at a guesthouse like this are
zero
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so there's obviously miscellaneous
things as well we just stopped at
guardian pharmacy it's a big chain of
pharmacies all over the island you can
get all your medication there shampoo
conditioner beauty things all stuff like
that woman's products yeah just like
over-the-counter medication as well like
headache tablets and stuff so we roughly
spend
about 500k there man another thing under
michelanious is laundry so let's go
fetch our laundry now
okay this is the laundry it's 10 000 per
kilogram we usually do about 10
kilograms in a month so that's about
100k for the month
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and then to finish off the miscellaneous
section i usually do a haircut which is
about 100k you can't get it for cheaper
it's usually about 100k so that brings
the michelinius to
49 a month
now for the category where we spend the
most amount of money and that is on food
we're gonna split it up into groceries
and eating out or
ordering in
groceries we spent about 70 usd for the
month and it's very low because we only
basically buy food for breakfast like
oats and cereals and that kind of stuff
and then we also buy fruits from the
local mart which is super cheap included
in that
just something to note if you do go
grocery shopping in bali the cow
products are pretty expensive that's
something we've noticed so like milk
cheese and beef is pretty expensive here
everything else is roughly cheap chicken
is cheap as well and vegetables as well
we don't buy that many groceries like
that because although we've got a shared
kitchen it's a bit difficult to cook in
it it lacks a couple of utensils so
that's why we order in quite a lot of a
grab and go jake
and that reflects in the price because
it comes in at a whopping
454 u.s dollars
a month
heavens that's
that's pretty bad
it's expensive though because we order
foods that are different cuisines from
all over the world obviously you can cut
that price down if you cook more for
yourself or if you order indonesian food
and finally when we are not ordering in
we dine out at the many many cafes and
restaurants that you can choose from in
bali i swear you can eat at a new
restaurant for every single meal
every single day and you won't even eat
at all the restaurants here there's so
many so many different cuisines to
choose from as well that comes in at a
total of 175 dollars so the whopping
total for food for the month is 699
usd for the month you can definitely
bring that price down if you cook for
yourselves or eat indonesian food but we
do not do that so
our food bill is quite expensive
we enjoy our food though and we like
trying different things from all over
the world we've got ourselves reflecting
on why that totes are so much and it is
because a lot of european food on the
island is like quite over i wouldn't say
overpriced but it's definitely western
prices like pastas pizzas and
beef burgers are really expensive here
you can't really find a decent beef
burger under like 90k just things like
that that's why it's expensive because
we kind of we're westerners we come from
south africa and we crave western food
so
we're always ordering that and that's
when the prices can start adding up
quickly so for late lunch i had a
chicken fried rice bowl from a japanese
restaurant here only 20k for the bowl
it's so delicious and affordable but
then tonight we're thinking of having
greek and greek food is like 85k a meal
so you know
these are the examples we can give you
you can order very cheap and you can
order very expensive food it's just
really up to you and your lifestyle
and the final expense for this body cost
of living video is of course visas
that's something you can't get away from
unfortunately we currently spend 850k
per person for the month so that brings
our total for visa to 118 dollars for
two people so that brings the total to
a whopping
hundred
and fifty dollars
all right that's not bad at all yeah i
really do it's plus minus we'll put the
actual total right over here because we
we're not 100 sure right now but the
total is on the screen that is what it
is it's around 1650 which is not bad
it's about 150 more than our cost of
living in ho chi minh city vietnam
and we're living a better life here i
think overall so and just tonight the
1650 does not include a couple of extra
curveballs that come at you
so for example
root canal treatment from the dentist
ent specialist visits
having to constantly get my hair fixed
after it turned green treating yourself
to a relatively expensive spa treatment
can be quite expensive here for our
anniversary yes justified and also like
a road trip for example or if you just
go away for a weekend you might pay
quite a bit more in accommodation to
stay at a nice hotel down in uluwatu or
up in ubud for example in reality
there's always something and it
generally always adds up to around extra
500 so keep that in mind but yolo don't
spare any expense when if it brings you
happiness like a spa treatment like
getting your hair done like eating good
food
just live life man you know
be happy
and bali is where it's at the happiness
oh the kittens are out maybe we can show
you
oh try from them
and one last thing obviously this is
when you are staying in bali you're
staying put you're not paying for any
travel expenses like pcr tests and
flights those are all excluded from this
equation so you have to factor that in
on top of it
comment down below the if you would like
to see a south african cost of living
because i feel like
it might be roughly the same in south
africa i think i mean it could be more
it could be more expensive it could be
cheaper comment down below if you would
like to see that because we're heading
home soon
excited for that and if you have any
other video ideas please comment them
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