My friend told me that when she was there everything was so cheap that you could live well of off $100 a month!! I am actually really interested in moving out of the US and looking for a place in the Asian continent. Best answer, will be chosen and awarded. All other rated based upon the answer. Thanks in advanced to everyone!
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yes it is true it is very cheap there, but it depends on the type of person you are. its not as nice and industrialized as the US. there is like 1 or 2 big cities that you might be able to notice similarities with cities in the US. the rest is all farmy like. yeah you definitely can live off 100$ a month. back in the summer me and my brother visited my dad who lives there. and he would take us out to lunch everyday and the 3 of us came to about like 25000 riel which is like 5$! lol. so imagine it was you but you are going solo. pitchers of beer is like 2$ although i think its water down. you probably will need transportation and could get a motocycle for like 100$. i seen all the white foreigners riding around dirt bikes lol. they are all taller than the other bikes. entertainment and stuff. i dont know much really but they are up and coming and trying to be more westernized so there are spots you can go to. they have a tourist spot in the capital city which is very nice. dont know anything about finding a place out there though. well phnom pehn is up and coming now. a lot of investors especially from korea are building all this stuff and i saw they are in the process of building like a private community with a lot of houses and shopping centers and a few skyscrapers. it seemed like the who area was gated in. saw some of the prices for the houses were like 100k to 200k. this does not seem like it will be finished soon though. so theres my input lol. well i thought i might add that my input makes it sound cheap but there are stuff that is normal price. like they have some western fast foods there or well really all they have is KFC which is just about the same price as in the states, maybe just a little cheaper. they have other fast foods i never heard of there and pizza places that around the same price here. they do a lot of bargaining too but obviously you dont bargain at kfc or a restaurant.
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I'm not sure about the Cambodian laws. I know that you can visit Cambodia no problem, but you just can't live in a Southeast Asian country without having an appropriate visa. Probably the biggest thing you have to consider is this: Once you get there, what will you do to earn money? The only job that you might be qualified for is an English teacher, and that doesn't pay very well. I have personally met guys that moved to Thailand to teach English. Sure, they have a great time partying and meeting women and such. The problem is, they don't save any money, they make just barely enough to live on, and when they eventually move back to their home country, they literally have to start from scratch (some of them are well into their 30's when they do this). My advice? Save up all the money you can, and spend a couple of months travelling through SE Asia. Forget about living there for now, it's a dream that many of us have (I still have it), but the reality is a lot different. You will NOT be able to live on just $100 a month. If you want to have any kind of fun, your looking at spending at least $300+, and that's a conservative estimate.
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Cambodia are not bad but they used daily with USD they do have their own currency Lira. Nice I like Cambodia but I will love my country Malaysia.
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