In article <1180352685.487353.12410@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
apairudin@gmail.com says...
> 1. Your Dollars, Pounds or Euros buy so much more in Malaysia!
> Cheap places to live, cheap food and drink means you can retire on
> less money or retire while you're still young enough to fully enjoy
> life. Depending on where you choose to live, your existing resources
> and foreign income (including internet income) can buy more (5 to 10
> times) the value for similar items and services in the USA, Canada or
> Europe. Property purchase, lease or rental, food, drink, domestic
> services such as cooking, housekeeping - even medical care can be
> incredibly cheap compared to what you're used to.
Unfortunately it's not a factor of 5-10, but less. Property in KL, I
mean good property with a quality level comparable to Western Europe or
the USA, is expensive, especially if you live not 20 km or more away
from KL. Maybe it's only a factor of 2 cheaper than in a developed
country.
Food is cheap, a lot cheaper than in a standard developed country.
Hotels are also cheap, but not as cheap as they were only a few years
ago.
If you then choose to maintain a living standard comparable to the one
you had in a developed country before, and for example continue buying
international level quality goods, you probably end up living on around
60-70% of what you used to live on in a developed country.
But you have the option of living a lot cheaper, if you chose to stay in
a small town or in a town other than KL, and don't insist on having a
high quality living standard as you enjoyed it before in your developed
country.
Medical care is of a good standard in Malaysia and costs way less than
in a typical developed country.
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Alfred Molon
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