Living WELL on $1000/month in World's CHEAPEST Country (Da Nang, Vietnam)

Da Nang, Vietnam. It's a really special city. I've never seen a place where you can have such an amazing lifestyle with such a small budget. And in this video I will show you exactly how everything costs here and how you can get your dream lifestyle here for under $1,000 per month which is incredible. And I will also show some even cheaper options if you are in a tighter budget. Today I came for morning coffee here to Maya which is really awesome like Tulum style beach. Bar they have here now. It's really close where I stay. I show you next my place. It's also really awesome and this area is really beautiful and it's incredible. Like this kind of beach bar there's no minimum spend, there's no anything and the coffee ice latte costs $2. So you can of course get coffee also for like 50 cents or something in many of the local places. But even in nice cafes where you can go work there and it's beautiful and everything it's $2 for ice latte and of course black coffee even cheaper. So that goes to show you like how cheap it can be in Danang and still having incredible lifestyle. And yeah the beach also here like it's just really beautiful. You can swim here, you can surf here, you can do anything here. It's just a really amazing place. I don't drink coffee every day though so for me I really just spend like 10 to 20 dollars per month for coffee which is really awesome. You can still enjoy all these amazing places and try different coffees. Yeah I think one of the main things why people love Danang so much nowadays that it's just everything is so easy here. Like everything is so cheap and affordable. You don't need to worry about money and also for example visa when you're coming here. Most countries have 30 to 45 days visa exemption for free and you can also get e-visa up to 90 days for just $50. Super easily online and when you arrive you can get grabbed from the airport to your hotel in the beach area for under four dollars. So everything is just everything is so easy, simple, quick and cheap. And the city is so nice. You can get many free things here like on the beach there's many spots you can go easily. There's shade and it's for free. You can just chill in many different areas and there's also some other free things I will show later. But yeah also surfing is really nice here especially for beginners in the springtime. The waves are quite gentle so it's good place to learn and the surfing costs like six dollars for a surfboard rental and also if you like bodyboarding sometimes it's really fun and it's just a couple of bucks so yeah it's really nice. But yeah I will drive back to my Airbnb now and show you where I live. It's the most incredible value for money I've ever seen in my life. And I'm at home like two minutes later. I really love staying in this area. I recommend this Muan area. It's the best in my opinion. It's the best vibe, the best cafes and best beach and best everything. And yeah definitely if you feel comfortable I recommend having a scooter. It's just so easy to get around and so nice and it's not too expensive. But also if you don't want to drive the traffic is also kind of crazy sometimes here in the beach area. It's not too bad but in the city it's quite hectic. Vietnamese style and they have these funny helmets. I actually bought my own helmet also. It's way more comfortable to drive a little bit further away. This is okay for the beach but yeah I recommend if you're staying longer to get a proper helmet. But yeah the grab cars and scooters are also very affordable here. So if you stay in a good area you can easily get grabs also when you sometimes go a little bit further away and otherwise just walk to the beach, walk to the cafes close by. For the scooter myself I paid 128 dollars for a month which is a little bit more than usual here in Da Nang. But yeah I really like this. It's the same than I had last year. It just works so well and it's really comfortable and nice. I just rented the same one but you can definitely get a decent scooter for like 30 to 50 dollars per month if you get a little bit older or a little bit not the nicest model or whatever. For the gas what you can expect to pay here it's not much. It's like full tank for this is like three dollars and it lasts for like 10 days for me even if I drive a little further away almost every day and all the time. So yeah it's very affordable. But yeah this is my apartment building. I will give the whole tour and what's included and everything. Now first thing that is included is this parking lot which is actually pretty awesome here. It's nice to have shade for the scooter and it's secure place to park. I'm starting the tour here at the rooftop. It's really amazing. You can basically see whole city from here and what I use this most is not swim in the pool. I never use it but it's really nice in the mornings to come here. You can see the sunlight and everything is really healthy for your sleep schedule and everything. So that's good you can come easily here and do that every morning and also you can see the sunset from here which is really amazing in Da Nang because you can't really see the sunset from the beach in most places. So it's easy at home to come every evening to watch the sunset from here. That's a big benefit of having this kind of building with this kind of view. But yeah the apartment itself is my favorite thing about this Airbnb so let's check it out. I will give you a full tour now and what's included in the price and I'm so happy I found this place. I really love it but there's also so many other options for like even $200 to $600 per month in Da Nang which is really amazing that you don't really need to worry about finding accommodation that is comfortable but also a good price because there's just so many options in the city. I really love the design of this apartment. It really has also everything you would ever need with a good price and also it's super spacious and this glass wall just makes it feel more like one bedroom apartment instead of just a studio. So yeah the kitchen itself I don't really use much because I don't cook. I will show more about eating out next. That's one of the best things in Da Nang and the bed here is really comfortable. It has been really good to sleep here. It's super comfortable and working table which is quite important. It's okay, it's quite comfortable and also the Wi-Fi is working good enough. I also have a balcony which is pretty decent view. There's also a lot of closet space here which is nice for a longer stay. It really has so many spots there and here and in the kitchen also. And this is the bathroom. It's also really nice design, everything works well. They really did a good job with the decoration even here, super nice. And what I paid for this place was $484 straight from Airbnb which is amazing price. It's the best apartment I ever had and it's still very affordable. The area is also really nice and they have cleaning included anytime. And there's reception where's always someone there and it feels super safe here and Da Nang generally feels super safe anywhere but this place just feels super high-end and there's also filtered water you can get from the reception. I also got a gallon just to make it more easy. It's so nice in Da Nang when it comes to food there's just so many good options when it comes to Vietnamese food that is so tasty and healthy and for example here you can get with three dollars like a really big soup that is so good. There's so much protein, so many different things. It's just so good value for money. So even if you want to save money you still don't need to cook yourself if you don't want to because there's so many options. And what I love about Da Nang that is not only affordable Vietnamese food that is really good but also there's a lot of affordable tasty healthy options when it comes to western food. There's many cafes that you can get like a huge salad bowl for like four dollars and it's just there's so many good options. There's of course so many options for restaurants. It's a big city which is nice here but there's some of my favorites I really love like chickpea eatery. You can get so good authentic local fruit from the grandparents cooking in the kitchen and it's just so good and still affordable. And from here I often order this soup because it's just so good and so good value for money. And generally like half or even more of my meals I do order here in Da Nang because crab works very well which is also really nice. It's so affordable. There's always discounts so basically sometimes most of the time we even save money a little bit by ordering it home instead of going out to eat. So what I spend in a month for food is like 400-450 dollars but that's without really trying to eat cheaply. It's just me living my life and eating whatever I feel like eating. It's really affordable here even like that but if you eat in more like local places you can definitely get it under like 200 dollars per month. But anyway if you're getting value out of this video please like the video and also subscribe to not miss the next videos from Da Nang. And for exercise here in Da Nang you don't necessarily need a gym membership because it's really active city. There's so many events, there's people playing volleyball every afternoon on the beach in many spots, there's many places with pull-up bars and everything so you can easily do beach workouts also. It's really popular here, many people do it so you also have this kind of community feel in these kind of parks where you have all these activities you can do. And it's completely free of course but yeah I have a gym membership because for me it's really important to do also ice bath. I really love it and it just makes my life so much better so I was finally able to find a place that has an ice bath here in Da Nang. There's only one option that me or anybody else have been able to find and that's Elite Fitness. It's a little bit further away and it's a little more expensive. It's kind of like high-end experience with rooftop pool and everything so 100 dollars for one month and if you have longer term membership it can be way cheaper also. But it sounds like it's kind of worth it because they have yoga, they have good big gym with a lot of things, they have even coaches for boxing, they have ice pad, sauna, steam sauna and big lap pool. But my experience hasn't been really perfect because it's a little bit further away, it's 15 minutes drive through all the traffic to go to the city so that's one negative and also they always cover the view at the rooftop pool so it's not like that nice and the sauna is infrared sauna, it's not too hot sometimes, it's not the best. The ice bath is really nice, it's super cold and yeah I love that part and the gym is not too busy usually and new equipment so it's pretty good, it's pretty nice but in Vietnam 100 dollars I would expect a little bit better maybe but it's still really good option if you want to do sauna and ice pad also in the city. But yeah there's also of course cheaper options for the gym but then they just don't have the sauna, ice bath part, only the gym and maybe yoga and of course running is also really awesome here in Da Nang. The beach boulevard is super nice, it's just really nice. You can also go of course run on the beach so it's a long beach so it's pretty perfect for running, I do that a lot here. I can watch sunset close to dragon bridge in a local sunset bar, the coconut is two dollars, beer is the same price. There's of course many like really fancy rooftop bars also in the city but it's pretty chill in this kind of spot. There's not too many people, it's affordable and still nice view and nice sunset. And some other prices I have every month is for example massage. I like to go to a spa like once a week, this really helps not feeling so stiff and just feeling more relaxed and in the more nice and clean spas here usually it's like 10 to 15 dollars for 60 minutes massage so not too cheap, not too expensive, pretty good. The massages are not as good here as in Bali and Thailand and Philippines but still pretty good. I found this one place that has been the best so far so it's still worth it for a couple times in a month and also for working I usually work home and in cafes because there's many cafes here with good wi-fi and comfortable place to work and good food, affordable food, so I don't really go to co-working spaces but there are some. I will show one in the next video but it's like five dollars per day pass and when you arrive you can get a local sim card easily on the airport and it's like ten dollars for unlimited data for a month but yeah mine stopped working after two weeks I'm not sure why so I bought Olafly eSIM for the rest of the time so it was a bit extra cost from that and laundry has been like three dollars for one big bag of laundry so that has been quick and easy and groceries of course are not much because I don't cook home but it's just Gatorades and apples and stuff like that so some extra cost from that but it's quite affordable to shop in the big supermarkets here also and one thing I also wanted to mention here is that if you need to buy any expensive electronics like MacBooks or Apple products or DJ products or stuff like that usually all that kind of stuff is a little bit cheaper here than anywhere else but that's all my monthly cost here and it's definitely you can do it very cheaply you can do it for five hundred dollars quite easily here if you really want to be in a budget but under one thousand dollars is you can really live really amazing lifestyle here and yeah if you spend a little bit more of course you can be live like a king basically so it's just really affordable place still and that's one of the reasons why I love to stay here so much but of course it's otherwise also just amazing place so it's not just about being affordable but it really is and you can watch my other Da Nang videos here like and subscribe and see you next week