How we lived on $20/day in Bali: Cost of Living in Canggu

Bali is a beautiful place that can be done on a budget. For even $20/day we hung out in the trendy area of Canggu. Here we dive into what it costs to eat, live, and work abroad while hanging out in the Canggu area of Bali.

Bali Daily Budget

Fin:                                      00:25 Hey. Want to join me for lunch? Welcome to Sika our favorite lunch spot over the past two months that we've been to every single day, except for maybe three or four days. You go point and choose what you want from the precooked food, and then you can go over here and grab a drink out of the fridge and then there's a bunch of little snacks you can grab too. My favorite are the rice crackers, which are about 1000 rupiah, which is equivalent to about $0.07 USD.

After you choose all your food, they quote you your price, and this is kind of funny because it is, I always get the same thing every single day, but it's a different price every single time, which is fine. It varies about $0.30 USD Each time. One of our plates is 14, one of our plates is 15,000 and that equates currently to the U S dollar as about $1.15 USD. The drink will be about 8,000 which is probably like 40 cents. And like I said, my crackers are about 7 cents. So not a bad meal for under $2.

Tim:                                     01:34 If you're going to be posted up for a month or two abroad, in a place like Bali you can still run to like a western food restaurant. A meal like this is only going to run you $5.00. But we eat at Sika all the time, all the time cause it's really cheap.

Tim:                                     01:59 If you can book by the month, you can land a sweet villa like this for about $25 to $30 a night. Of course you can stay everywhere from a single room with mosquito net to luxury Villa and next to the water and the price you pay is obviously going to reflect that. We've got links below to the places we ended up at. No matter where you stay, nightly visits from lizards are guaranteed. What's not guaranteed? 24/7 internet, water, or power.

Fin:                                      02:26 We are having fun and listening to music, but not right now because when we're recording we can't put music that you listen to on YouTube. So we've just turned it off. So just cue copyright free music here

Fin:                                      02:55 Hi the power's out. Oh, now the runs out. Well this dish is soapy. Let's see, what else was I doing? I'm boiling some edamame over here so that we'll be able to eat. Fortunately Tim cooked us a steak, so we'll be able to eat that. And then I think there's like a package of Oreos that we can eat. So that'd be a great, great old dinner.

Fin:                                      03:40 We have no internet at our apartment, we pay $150 a month, a person to be at this coworking space that is under construction 24 hours a day and thus we're stuck and trapped in this noisy environment trying to change our lives in 30 days before we go home.

Tim:                                     04:11 So, Oh, nice. So part of any reentry plan, when you're looking for jobs back home, you're going to need a place to work and here in Canggu, you can go to a coworking space or you can go to Canggu club. Cause for not too much more than the coworking space. You get access to the pool and gym and an awesome waterpark.