Actual cost of living KL - Members examples

Hi all,

I often see now and again posts called "Cost of living in KL" and have a tendency reading them. As often as they are informative they are misleading as everyone has a different perspective of what is a reasonable cost of living. Some say RM 3500 for a 2 adult 2 child family is more than enough while others argue RM 15000 will leave you eating breadcrumbs. Having a monthly RM 10000 shopping spree at Isetan I don't see as a necessity and I believe should be left out of the equation.

That said, I think it would be interesting and very instructive if the people already living in KL where willing to share their actual living costs. As a German reader looking for information surely will be more interested in what a fellow European has to say in comparison to what a person from the Middle East has... and vice verse of course, I think a short introduction will be helpful to future readers in narrowing down their search for information.

Ok, I'll go first then. Me and my wife are 33 and 34 and have a soon 6 year old son. We are all Swedish nationals.

Fixed monthly costs:

RM 2800 - 3 bed 2 bath at Laman Baiduri
RM 920 - 2013 Proton Saga FLX on a yearly lease
RM 1500 - Middle class international school
RM 200 - Electric
RM 100 - Astro
RM 130 - Time Internet
RM 300 - Grade A insurance from Pacific Insurance
RM 300 - Junior golf school
RM 100 - Junior swim school

This roughly ads up to RM 6400.

On top of this we as a family spend RM 3500 or less on the remaining variable monthly costs which include, gas, eating out, leisure activities and so on.

I hope this will help someone in the future and I am eager for fellow members in sharing their personal cost table.

Best Regards

Kent