I imagine many people will be leaving the UK in the next decade. I think God willing, I will be one of them too.

I've been in KL for nearly 4 years, and I'm impressed how quickly you've caught up. Agree with most of it, but my utilities and food for 4 people are half versus your calculation. I was just in UK for 1 week, and by the time I landed back in KL, my love for Malaysia had grown multifold.

Avoid european/US brand cars cuz the maintenance and spare parts gonna cost u a lot. Stick to malaysian cars or japanese car like toyota, honda.

My family spending every months 1. Electricity= MYR 40 2. Water =MYR 40 3. GROCERIES= MYR450-600 4. INTERNET= MYR 108 5. Telephone bill for 4 person = MYR220 6. Fuel= MYR150 7.Family Insurance= 0 8. School= 300 Total=MYR 1458 PER MONTH.

My family has had the same maid for over 20 years now Alhamdulillah. She is awesome, like my own mother. We cover everything from flight tickets, medical, food, clothes, gifts literally everything and not one cent of her income need to be spent on herself. Never will we change and if she finally wants to stop working (we've asked many times), we won't be taking new maids. So many untrustworthy maids nowadays 🥲

From the list, as a local, you can cut a few things on the list. Rent, a two storrey terrace maybe a little off outside the city but still accessible to it around rm1500. Way cheaper in states other than KL Internet for home and phone (1 person) for about rm200. If just the phone ,rm60-80 per person. No need for maids if you can find a day to clean up once a week. Car, if you are looking for a B segment sedan, would be around rm700-1100. Less than rm500 for a compact car or segment A sedan. Go for local brands like proton and perodua, or japanese ones. Bills, electricity bills especially, if you don't mind spending more time under the fan, then you could do under rm200 per month. Groceries, it depends on how many things u need for your meals and house supplies. I'd say rm500 should be average if you have a family. Find a wet market or morning market for cheaper stuffs. Aeon is pretty expensive on some things.

I would like to suggest for foreigner who wants settle down in Malaysia, if you have enough cash please buy a house and a car in cash. Those costs will take up the top 2 utmost of the budget. The rest of the expenses will be bearable around rm5k maximum per month. This is my experience when i settled my house and car loans. It left me with an extra cash which i find it useful. Yes it is true if you want to buy a car choose of malaysian brand and japanese brand because the car maintanance is much much cheaper than the continental one. I used mercedes before and i opt for honda and toyota now and i save a lot.

Aeon is not a high end grocer. Price are quite reasonable. Unless they are imported items . Most Malaysians go to Aeon, Hero, NSK, Giant, Mydin & such for their groceries. The high end grocers in Malaysia are Jaya Grocer & Village Grocers. Jaya Grocer carries select product ranges from Coles in Australia & Sainsbury UK.

brilliant break down of expenses. I'm really really interested

With the rising tariffs and removal of energy subsidies, perhaps can consider installing solar panels to reduce electricity costs. I've paid RM38k for approximately 1300kwh monthly of power generation and it reduces my bill from RM650 to just RM30+/- per month. I shall get my ROI in the 6th year 😂

Commenting to help boost. Great break down, gives a much better sense of the true cost. Thank you!

11:30 bear in mind that there are talks that fuel subsidy rationalization is coming this year. So once they remove or reduce the subsidies further, it could cost more. Do budget for that eventuality.

This is now my favourite channel now, thank you for sharing so much useful info

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, 10k-ish per month for a certain lifestyle is actually spot on even for locals.

Thank you, very useful lesson. Go on !!

Thank you for everything that you do for us, appreciate it a lot. Will keep supporting you. Have a great day.

A good and informative video!

Very useful information. JazakhAllah Khayr

So pleased we have someone who has migrated to Malaysia from the UK and is able to give us sound and realistic breakdown of cost of living in Malaysia. My husband &I are thinking of migrating and have considered several countries including GCC, Arabia, Dubai, Pakistan and Malaysia. All are off the list except for Malaysia & Pakistan. Pakistan is tempting b/c of family but Malaysia i think offers better weather, serenity, healthy mixture of islamic and western norm rather than the extreme of one or the other. Your videos will help us to make the final decision - Jazak’Allah Khair for your open and transparent advice & information. All the best for the future.

Thank for these wonderful insights.❤

Very interesting to watch, thanks for sharing x

House loan : 2000 Car loan : 1500 Electric : 200 Water: 100 Internat : 200 Mobile phone : 100 Astro : 100 Fuel : 400 School : 2000/2person Food : 400 eat out Groceries/fish/chiken/vage: 1200 Water dispenser: 100 Total 8300

Earning pound & spending in Malaysia..we as Malaysians dreaming of that😊

Thank you for all your videos. I'm thinking of moving to Malaysia so these videos have been very helpful.

bcareful of taking a living maid...lots of cases..maid runaway with your stuff...it does happen lots even though the wages has goin up..my sister in law maid run in middle of the nite..with her money,gold, ..n other valueble stuff..even though she treat her like own family.. Edit : she paid her rm2200..bcoz she really like dat maid..but sadly..she run in the middle of the nite..following her new bangladeshi or pakistani boyfriend..coz my sister in law said 3 weeks bfore ..she happen to saw a man in front of her house looking like pakistani/bangladeshi man talking with dat maid in front of her house..b extra2 careful..dis kind of things really do hapoen a lots..with the indonesian maid

Your information is so useful 👌. Mashallah..

My spending every months (2 person and 3 cats😂 and i WFH) 1. Electricity= MYR 150-180 ( aircond maybe 18-20 hours per day) 2. Water =MYR 12 3. GROCERIES= MYR300-500 4. INTERNET= MYR 102 5. Telephone bill for 2 person = MYR 80 6. Fuel= MYR120 7. Family Insurance= 0 8. School=0 9. Car loan= 877 10. House rental=1400 Total=MYR 3051 PER MONTH.

Been waiting for a new video for what feels like FOREVER. so I think I'm addicted to your channel now! ❤Thank you for all this valuable info and I'm so looking forward to the schools review video. Thanks for all you do and see you on the next one (hopefully very soon ☺)

Just found your channel while looking for holiday in Malaysia Great content very well put together Much appreciated

Thanks for the information that really creating value to watch ...

Jazaki Allah kheer❤

If you work for the money in uk & spend it in msia, evrything here will be cheap. Conversion, conversion, conversion...

Thanks for sharing. Appreciate if you could do a breakdown of affordable international schools in the region in a new video.

15:00 A live-in non-english speaking maid from Indonesia will cost you RM1,500/m but you will need to pay the agent fee of between RM9,000 to RM15,000 for a two-year contract. The fee is to be paid upfront. For English-speaking maid e.g. from Philippines, will cost you more..

Great video, thank you

You can live with RM200 electricity for a family 4 and RM1000 grocery per month comfortably. AEON is expensive because some are imported products. So you still have more room to save and live modest living.

The one thing I do is to go to different markets for different things. When I was in the UK it was easier though, because a lot of cities are walkable. But here I go to Aeon for fresh produce and Lotus for water (I probably should get a water filter). Luckily where I live (Nilai) there are Aeon, Lotus and Giant all within 2-3km drive. There’s a Speedmart 99 as well, which price is actually unbeatable for certain household products (cleaning supplies mostly).

There's income tax (cukai pendapatan), assessment tax (cukai taksiran), quit rent (cukai tanah/petak) and IWK (Government owned sewerage maintenance service) payments too.

this is an useful insight for rough idea regarding cost of living in malaysia. tq!

Love your content ❤

You hav got it on the UK point of view...where £1~rm6. This is the monthly malaysian way of expense: I earn rm18,000/mth. My monthly expanse for a family of 5 is : Provisions = rm1500 Petrol =rm400 Electric bill / TNB = rm300 Water bill = rm50 Internet 100GB /ph bill= rm120 Misc Expences= rm500 Childrens education : subsidised by PTPTN for their degree courses fees. Total per month ~ rm 3500 to rm4000. rm18,000 - rm4000 = rm14,000 savings😊

Thank you very helpful information please do vlog on job prospects for men and women graduates thank you

Thanks for the info.

As a Malaysian, and I've been in Malacca for 9 years, I would say that, that living cost is definitely on the higher side. Definitely a comfortable, way above the median level malaysians living standard. 7k a month can get you through a lot especially in Malacca. Might also be good to add school fees and phone bills (Although phone is very cheap here). Another good thing to add, and somehow seems like a compulsory, is a drinking water filter dispenser machine. Amazing content by the way! Cheers! Assalamualaikum!

Thank you for the info …so helpful. I certainly wouldn’t keep a maid. So it’ll definitely work out cheaper for us 🙏🏼

Assalamualaikum. We used to have in Malaysia the following supermarkets 1. Jusco (Japan). Now rebranded as Aeon. 2. Carrefour. Now taken over by Aeon and renamed Aeon Big. 3. Tesco. Sold to Lotus, from Thailand. 4. Giant. For cars, all new cars will attract a minimum customs excise duties of minimum 75%. For imported cars from South East Asia, there are import tax which is max 5%. Imports from any other region would see heavier tax, if not mistaken minimum 120% up to 300%. EVs are tax free until 2025. There is also another type of cars popular in Malaysia which is known as recond (reconditioned) used imports from either UK or Japan. Mainly, the large boxy people carrier known as Toyota Alphard and Toyota Vellfire which is the preferred choice amongst businessmen, millionaires, politicians, ministers and pop stars more than Mercedes S class and BMW 7 series. Fords are never popular here (except for the mid range Ranger pick trucks lately). Same goes to Renault and Peugoet. Vauxhall is pretty much non-existent after British left Malaysia more than 50 years ago.

Should also factor in about 1000-2000 for your traveling and entertainment cost, depends on how much you plan to travel. Anyway, your outline is on the upside, but it made perfect sense as not to underestimate the cost of living in Malaysia. Certainly you can live with less.

*_Ideal country to retire. Cheaper than Dubai._*

Jazakallakhair

Dear Sister Saira, absolutely love your content! MashaAllah. We are thinking to leave UK for a while. You made us sure we need to do just that. If a could I would go today with passport in my pocket, that’s how bad it became. Keep up the good work. May Allah swt help you with everything.

The high electricity cost is usually due to 2 things, ie air conditioning and water heater.. easily 50% of your cost there. It can really shoot up if you have a water pump, especially if you have a koi pond or swimming pool..

Bye bye very informative video

Way to go Saira! I watch ur videos everyday?

Well said 👍

Good estimates. You missed the capital expenditures which include everything else such as shopping, fixing, maintenance, lazada, travel, etc.

I have been following you for sometimes now . The only thing is the community that we miss over there. Anyhow with time things will settle down .

My family groceries cost MYR 450-600 per month not week😂

Hi. Thank you so much for these videos, may Allah SWT reward you.🙏🏽 Might have missed something, but why did you cross out the expense for rent in your calculation? We’re a family of six, seriously considering looking at Malaysia as a possible option to relocate to. Is it best to do so based on getting a job offer or is it better to do it based on the MM2H visa? Also, how easy is it to find job openings in Malaysia for people from the UK, speaking of the communication/networking sector? Many thanks in advance.

For local singles: RM10-15k a month lifestyle - middle class RM15-25k - upper mid class >RM30k - upper echelon (for people who usually take home around at least 50k net a month)

Good video. I will try and put up some clear graphics as I’ve got a bit lost with some of the costs and didn’t quite work out what it would cost to live there.

Thanks, great update. Can you look though the medical in more detail and schooling for kids please.

In Mont kiara Kuala Lumpur you can get around RM2500-RM3000 for 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom with 1 car park. Walking distance to shopping mall one Mont kiara and a few other shopping mall likes 163 Mont kiara, publika shopping mall, Solaris shopping mall.

Please tell more about Southwestern Malaysia floods as well. What's update on your area?

Water 15.00 Electricity 200.00 Indah water 100+×4 Unifi, net 129.00 Diesel 160.00 per 2 months Food 1000.00++ Monthly

Very helpful Could you do one about Thailand as I think it is cheaper and also visa regulation is not that strict

Hello Saira, My name is Ralph and my wife is Hazel and we are from the US here on vacation looking at properties in Malaysia. We have watched a number of your videos and really appreciate the info you provide. We were thinking of catching a Grab tomorrow from KL to hopefully look at a property in your development. We have an interest in Phase 6 Oak Hill and was wondering if you could help with a viewing with the developer. I’m very sorry this is last minute request but I hope you can help! Thanks Ralph and Hazel Horne.

U kept on reminding me of uk, though u've more time to count here..😉

I would say Aeon has 3 main hypermarket tier. Aeonbig being the most affordable one. Then there're Aeon and Aeon Max Value. I think for regular Malaysians, mostly we go to Lotus, Aeonbig, Checkers or NSK because it's cheaper there. I believe soon they will implement targeted subsidy for petrol. I calculated for myself, if that happens, my petrol cost will increase somewhere between RM20 to RM50 per week.

As for me living alone, I spent roughly Rm5000 to 6000 per month to live comfortably.

Honeymoon period. Everything nice and dandy.

What the speed of the internet and what options did you have for broadband speeds.

The place you are living seems miles from anywhere. I’ve seen these new developments springing up outside of KL, but they look a bit isolated and one wonders what there is to do in these places. It’s alright saying you can go for a walk or play golf, but that can get a bit boring after a while.

Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you so much for such an informative video. I have been looking into moving to malaysia for many years now and I feel finally it may be within reach. I have 4 kids under the age of 13 yrs so schooling costs is going to be my biggest expense. The research I have done here in the Uk led me to believe that school fèes for 1 child was £500 per month but your calculation covers that for 2 kids. Can you please advise the best approach to confirming school fees?

From what I have read, international schools are far more expensive than that in KL. Any info?

Thank you so very much for such a thorough breakdown! I'm an educational technology and course design specialist in higher education in the US with 25 years of experience. I also have experience with online business running my own Amazon business. I'm considering early retirement and relocating, and I'm wondering what work or investment opportunities are available for people with a background like mine in Malaysia!

Thank you for the video. The prices mentioned look great. However I take issue with the school fees mentioned. All the good international schools in KL charge more than 30,000 RM per year..some as high as 120,000 per year.

absolutely love your videos and extremely excited to sell everything we own to come live in Malaysia in september!

Are the comparrision figures on nembero incorrect 🤔

i just like your tiny jokes 😂 fan pushes the dirt away on the sides 😂😂😂😂😂

Thank you for the video. Quick Question: Insurance is considered Haram since it has interest element in it. So how you guys tackle this issue? Thanks

We also have Teslas here.

We used to live in Rumah Kampung....

Bear in mind, basically this breakdown, as saira’s said, she is being really generous. Which is yes, really2 generous. For locals’ that definitely a very comfortable life, more like for the upper class. So if lets say, if your budget is just half of saira’s budget, dont worry, you can still live comfortably. You just have to know where to cut the budgets a bit, where to buy things, and priorities things better.

Thank you for all the information. Can you please do a video on studying in Malaysia at university level. The fees, English tuition, accommodation & how to apply. How easy is it to get into university there. My daughter wants to study medicine. As you are aware UK is a nightmare to get a university place. I will really really appreciate all your help. Thank you 🌹

i would says that generous calculation of u doing around rm7100 per month for a single life there..i mean,thats the cost of being a foreigner in other's land,but least its realistic...after a month,2 maybe can tone down a bit but overall,as local,i believe as foreigner u need at least RM6-7k per monthly basis to pay around the bils ,and the earning should be around rm10,000 per month by the least if u wanted..

Malaysia is a blessed country

Kalau ada rm3 juta dah boleh hidup senang lenang anggaran 10,000 sebulan selama 25 tahun tak termasuk bayar zakat dan cukai

Salaam Saira, some of us are searching for a retirement destination. Malaysia offers sanctuaries for Muslim elderly who may wish to engage in educational activities, eg, Yayasan al Muhammadia in Kuala Selangor. Could you please explore this sector and enlighten us. JazakAllah khair.

2:40 if people are willing to live in condominiums, RM 3000 can get you a decent sized one in KL 👍🏽 I rent mine one out as well around that price 😁

Can you do another video stating according to not so luxurious lifestyl if one want to work hard in starting years

Could you post videos about tips on how to budget and build financial literacy? I’m a grad student planning to move abroad but I just don’t know where to start saving and investing 😭

Good information.....what about travel to other cities and resorts in Malaysia...I assume you will need to factor the air fare costs?

You should try Ben’s Independent Grocer (B.I.G.)

Thank you so much does the schools follow American or UK standards?

Hi saira love your vids also considering moving to klcc soon ..just wanted to ask..is that school fee per month or anum...

Sister, my question is about the residency program, MM2H and PVIP. With the three levels, can someone let's say starts with one level then opt into another level? I know this is not the appropriate video for that but before I forget the question. 😁😅😁

Thanks a lot for your great efforts. Pls how can we meet you face face in Malaysia?

That is a pretty high estimation. We're living comfortably on a lot less.

Wonder if it's plausible to do solar there, will save on costs and it's sunny all the time