🇬🇧 LONDON
🏠 1/2 bed apartment: £8,500
🍳 Food: £3,000/m if I cook, £6,000/m if I use Deliveroo
🧺 Laundry: £450/m
💧 Bottled water: £1,200/m
🚗 Car: £4,000/m
🅿️ Parking the car: £3,500/m
🚇 Public transport: £1,800/m to stand in someone’s armpit
🏋️ Gym: £600/m + £200 joining fee
☕ Coffee: £1,500/m
📱 Phone/WIFI: £350/m
🧾 Council tax: £2,700/m
💰 Total: £34,599 a month
London feels fast, connected and full of opportunity.
Cleaning not included.
The cleaner can’t afford London, she moved to Vietnam.
もっと見る
My cost of living: Vietnam vs Thailand vs Bali
🇻🇳 VIETNAM
🏠 Apartment: $400/m
🍳 Food: ~$600/m if I cook, ~$800/m with delivery
🧺 Laundry: ~$19/m
🧹 Cleaning: included
🛵 Motorbike: $80/m
🏋️ Gym: free outside, or ~$120/m
☕ Cafés/coworking: ~$60/m
📱 Mobile internet: ~$9/m
💰 Total: ~$1,170–1,490/month
Life here feels slower, calmer and more spacious.
🇹🇭 THAILAND / BANGKOK
🏠 Apartment: $700/m
🍳 Food: ~$800/m if I cook
🧹 Cleaning: I do it myself
🛵 Motorbike: ~$150/m
🚕 Taxis: ~$50/m
🏋️ Gym: ~$80/m
☕ Cafés/coworking: ~$70/m
💰 Total: ~$1,850/month + laundry/mobile
Bangkok feels much more connected to money, people and opportunities.
More meetings, partnerships, networking and things happening around you.
🇮🇩 BALI / UBUD
🏠 Apartment: ~$300/m
🍳 Food: ~$800/m if I cook
🍜 Eating out/delivery: roughly 2x Vietnam
🧹 Cleaning: included
🛵 Motorbike: ~$100/m
🚕 Taxis: ~$50/m
🏋️ Gym: ~$60/m
☕ Cafés/coworking: ~$60/m
💰 Total: ~$1,370/month + laundry/mobile if cooking
Bali is harder to explain.
It just feels like home somehow.
もっと見る