Can get a 15m2 khmer apartment for 70$, and they not that bad actually. I know a place where you get a room for 40$ a month. Its not the best room. Wooden floor that moves when neighbours walk around, all electricity-cables on the inside of the wall without decent protection etc. But if you just want get of cheap you can. I would take the 70$ one. 120$ you get a western apartment with gate and surveilance.scobienz wrote:I'm not sure what living costs in SHV are and I'm sure others will chime in but your visa costs will be $180 or so for the first seven months taking into account the first month.
A crap room will cost $120 at least and assuming you won't have transport you will need at last $50 to get around,likely more. Forget women,forget booze, forget any degree of comfort. It will be a truly horrible existence.
Why a westerner would want to come to live in SHV like a local is beyond me. Forget this comparing local salary nonsense. It doesn't work like that. You are not local and you can never live like a local.
Sihanoukville is small. He can just buy a pushbike and go anywhere in notime. No problem. One time investment on a few tens of dollar.
I agree with you that it dosnt really work that way that we can come live on their sallary. However, if you dont have as much money as someone else you dont spend as much either. He would have to pay for all costs and then do the best of whats left. You dont have to sit in bars every night and eat overpriced poorly cooked western food either.
He could live on that money, no problem whatsoever. The problem is he would be bored as fuck. So he better have good hoobies that dont cost money.
What he could do is work a little for some bar for room food and drinks or some of those things. I would never want to live here on 200$ a month. Would say 600$ is the limit for me.