Our total cost for the month was for the month was 'blah blah blah''
Did I mention there's a swimming pool?
Hey guys I'm Ross and Bek is behind the camera doing all the amazing work
Now, for those of you that are new here
we travel full-time. We quit our jobs
in Australia and put everything we own into a storage container
and we travel the world
We work online doing freelance work
and that pays our way
We love food so we want to share that with all of you guys and travel tips too
So as we go everywhere
we'll always do a cost of living video and every week
we're going to drop one or two videos
that are either food or travel tip related so keep your
eyes peeled for those
All right Malaysia
So we've spent over a month now
We're actually on our last day and I'm pretty sad because I love this place
I've actually fallen in love with it and Bek has to
So to cover off our cost of living in Malaysia
we've got seven categories that we think are important and two
additional categories that I hope will help all of you on your travels as well
so hang out for those at the end
Now before we start guys this is what it
costs us. So yes, some people spend a lot less and some people will want to spend
a lot more - but we've lived really comfortably in Malaysia
we've also lived really comfortable in Bali and in Vietnam so far so if you
haven't seen those videos check them out and you can see what it really does cost
now we travel for one month blocks at a time. We always go to a city and stay for
one month. It helps us with our work but also you get a massive discount when you
book for more than 28 days. Now we've been pretty spoiled in Kuala Lumpur we
have a swimming pool, a sauna that's amazing, a gym, two bedrooms, two bathrooms
a kitchen and a view of half of the city that's just mind-bending and being here
at Chinese New Year we've just seen fireworks and things popping off
everywhere the whole city just comes to life and you get to see that every night
is really really cool
Our total cost for accommodation was
3040 RM
Breakfast and lunch
We would go to the supermarket and just top-up for the week
and make sure that we've got lots of breakfast stuff and lunch stuff all in
the fridge ready to go. So that's been really easy. It's such a hot city KL
that you know in the middle of the day you just want to be working get your
work done, eat some food and just be ready to go
for the evening so that's what we've been doing anyway!
So our total cost was 604 RM
Dinners, all right a bit different here we would head out most
nights we were spoilt for choice there's so many spots everywhere and I'll talk
about transport in a minute but we would just catch a grab to
wherever we want to go and we would review lots of blogs and different spots
that are highly recommended
So, getting around
Bit different to Bali and Vietnam.
No scooters happening here
The roads very hectic. A lot of cars
Everyone would drive around in a car or they're catching taxis or grabs
you can catch public transport but you really have to be lucky and stay right near
one of the train stations.
And if you're not near there it's just too hard to organize
So we catch grabs and to get into the city we're out in the suburbs a little bit
maybe 10 minutes out from the city the cost to get in there is around 10 RM per
trip so we will be heading out almost every day
our total cost for the month was 722 RM
all right so water get yourself one of these these are six litres and they're
in a lot of the 7-elevens and other versions of 7-eleven in Malaysia the
good thing with these is for a six liter bottle you're talking 10 RM so we would
get one of these each maybe every second day and our total cost for the month was
440 RM
Fun n beers it's actually not that expensive Malaysia has a reputation
for being pretty expensive for alcohol and yeah we didn't really go out too
much on the on the gas if you like our total cost was 295 RM for the month so
around $100 for the month
So we always drink coffee. It's just one of those
In Malaysia you can get good coffee in the city where we're staying
is not really that many sort of cafe options so we just went to the
supermarket and I think each time spent ten eleven dollars 30 RM each time and
just loaded up the best coffee mix that you could get and that worked that
worked fine so our total cost was 61 our
so guys two additional categories travel insurance we've got a really good one
covering all of our equipment and other things that we we need so we have to
specify a lot of things travel insurance. The travel insurer was really good.
For Netflix we always have Netflix
wherever we go watch on our laptops phones on the TV got a little chromecast
we plug in we always get a SIM card wherever we go in Malaysia
it was 39 RM for a sim.
So our total for those additional type things there the
little bills and other things that we pay is 600 RM
So finally last category
is optional for those that want to stay clean and look good and all these things
Haircuts Shampoo, Tooth Paste. All the household
things that you might need.
Some of it was already in the air B&B that we we
stayed in but topping up on all these things going out getting a haircut
and all that stuff our total cost was a 100 RM
Now total cost for the month
was 6,050 RM now that was a 31-day period
Alright as always guys hope you enjoyed it
we hope that you found this useful in some way if
you're coming to Malaysia
We're gonna do this wherever we go we're
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