My cost of living per month in Singapore. I’m from Japan, so I compared each cost to my country’s broken down into housing, utility, food, transportation, phone&internet, and recreation.
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00:00 Cost of Living in Singapore
01:28 Housing Cost in Singapore
03:43 Utility Cost in Singapore
04:19 Cost of Food in Singapore
06:41 Transportation Cost in Singapore
07:39 Phone/Internet Cost in Singapore
07:59 Recreation Cost in Singapore
09:38 Miscellaneous Cost
09:59 Total Cost of Living per Month in Singapore
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family of 3, an 8 yr old.
avg mthly spend $2.3-2.4k
include insurance
Don’t drink at all, your wife’s not wrong though😂😂😂😅😅😅
I felt Singapore cost of living is manageable comparing to its median salary. Malaysia is more expensive. The only advantage Malaysia can offer is car and rent.
Cost in terms of money, time, emotional toil etc. Why is this surprising. It is easier to maintain the ecological balance in a large fish tank than a very small one.
The food prices have gone up.
Many Singaporeans who are not any richer than you and also live in HDB spend thousands on luxury goods like LV, Chanel etc to "flex" LOL.
7K a month in all, plus all our insurances, mortages,car loan,groceries,utilities,HP/Internet,……..
Once you get used to living in a country, it will naturally become cheap for you. I moved to Australia and was stressing about the conversion rate from Malaysian Ringgit to Aussie Dollar. The first one and a half years I was searching high and low for ways to cut down on basic expenses just so I could guarantee to have next month's rent ready. After a couple of years there, it became natural like breathing. I was paying rent 6 to 12 months in advance, I was buying a box full of vegetables (potatoes, carrots, capsicum) for $1 dollar at the market, I was walking to work because there was no point taking a car so close, I was buying fancy business suits and silk vests for $5 dollars at little hidden stores, I was buying 3 pairs of snakeskin shoes for less than $100, I was easily living and THRIVING on less than $500 per month. Then I moved back home to Malaysia again and was scared & frustrated about how I'm going to afford anything with the value of the ringgit so low compared to Aussie Dollar… Now I can easily live a comfortable life on RM5000 a year and that is with luxuries. I can push it down to RM3500 if I really want the bare essentials only. I save 80% of my paycheck every month to invest and no matter what I do there's still always over RM1000 leftover at the end of the month. It's not a challenge anymore to live on annual salary of RM30k. Heck, I was investing over RM18,000 last year and still had money leftover for emergency and doctor visits etc.
2-4K, depends on how often I go out/ buying stuff online o.o
If you have to drink, just drink. Life is tough enough and if drinking helps you unwind, it's not a bad thing. But still everything in balance
Yup, eat cheap, dun drink ,smoke, fall sick , eat out at restaurant, go for holidays, buy stuff and always take public transport , u will be alright 😅
Well done Ghib on a great video that concerns cost of living for Singapore couple living in Singapore. When you start having kids in Singapore, you will find the astronomical costs of raising kids in Singapore. I look forward to your video then.
You live like a king in KL. If you earns 4-8K USD/SD a month.
Ojisan…what about insurance/s ?😂
Misleading video 🥲, who pays 3$ for chicken rice now and 1000$ for home?
Living in Singapore is afforable to most people. Affording a desired lifestyle is not easy especially with all the hype that Singapore is one of the richest cities in the world leading people to think that living here means having all the luxuries you can think of. There are plenty of options to keep the cost of living low, but the question is whether or not that suits one's lifestyle?
heehee adorable cat on the sofa 😂
“You don’t drink at all”
Ghib: “and I took that personally”
Ghib asked viewers to share our expenses but most people just comment but never share 🤣🤣🤣
I think now I spend about 2.5-3k per month for all bills, food, transport and entertainment excluding hdb mortgage. Most of them falls under food I guess. I don't really go to fancy restaurant but I can potentially spend $50-100 on food a day as I don't put a cap on spending. I probably should try to control my spending to save more but sometimes I just feel it's troublesome and treat it as a way to reward myself as thankfully I still have savings every month…
Vegas on an island. 6 years, p.r .
Great full for ferries to nirwana . Can't afford membership to various clubs(Japan, hollandaise, American) don't want to be on orchard road or geylang? Good luck. Sold my hdb and moved to Korea.
Mrt worked beautifully though 🤣
Sg tax is so low tho..
maybe if you get a proper job instead of depending on Youtube Ad revenue as your primary source of income, you could probably survive in the 'high cost' of living in Singapore.
I spend about $500 a month. All by myself, sometimes less. Mostly credit card bills to buy children's breakfast and my bus fees deducted from the card. Sometimes, I buy snacks and titbits too. I eat at my workplace canteen. One meal around $3. I pay $700 to my dad and mum. $160 on life insurance and manage to save $6k into my own account every month. I never have to pay for any family bills. My hubby settles everything. He pays for the children 's expenses too. Our mortgage loan settled by rentals we are collecting so life is quite comfortable. We have no car but a maid. My hubby manages to save a few thousand dollars too after all the bills. We keep these money as savings and to pay off the mortgage loan when rates go too high. Still have 2 yrs fixed at 1.12%.
There's one more expense to add, "allowances for parents" which most Singaporeans actually do. I give my parents a combined $850 to thank them for bringing me up. But considering us going to my parents place atleast 3-4 times a week for dinner, plus the help i receive from them to look after my baby boy twice a week, the money really pales in comparison because my parents are doing so much more. Hence, when would also regularly bring our parents out to restaurants, help pay a bit of their travelling expenses as well. Singaporean parents are assets to the family!
600 per month