Cheapest cities in Cambodia

Hello Bhavna.

Very hard to answer as cheap is so personal. What I find cheap another may find expensive.

And as you talk about expats it's not the low budget backpackers destination, but a permanent residence.

A few tips I could give to future low budget expats:

1. Share your accommodation. There are shared apartments or houses available, that lower your monthly rental costs.

2. Cook your own meals. Apart from $2 street food that you don't want to eat every day you can vary your meals by cooking yourself. Ingredients are nearly always affordable, certainly on markets.

3. Rent or buy a bicycle. The cheapest form of transport, together with walking.

These tips go well in whatever city, a cheap city is what you make of it.

Cheers.

Joe
Cambodia expert
Expat.com team

Yes I'm no longer a resident, but recently lived three years in Phnom Penh, I know guys who live well on less than 1000usd$ per month and travel in country some, but if can live in the province, which as jo would agree is difficult you can rent a little house in the province 50$ a month maybe a market close,,   Not ideal . But  really cheap and livable is , pp or Batttenbang  , siem reap even cheaper rents than pp. but a lot of tourists  in siem reap , for all around easy living you can't beat pp.  pp has everything, just my opinion

Imho. Well written