Best Places to Live in Malaysia

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Penang
Malaysia
The noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
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$1,114 / mo
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
First time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
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🌤 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°AQI 58
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$1,303 / mo
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Kota Kinabalu
Malaysia
Nice and laid back city with good infrastructure. 4G coverage was good
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🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 17
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$832 / mo
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Kuching
Malaysia
Kuching is a great place to base yourself, it's a vibrant yet quiet little city with access to all sorts of outdoor activities. I stayed at the Borneo Seahare Guesthouse for about 5 months. It is run by a western guy called Ben and his wife Syeda, they really helped me out with everything I needed and gave me a very reasonable rate on a private room. The internet was good and the place had everything I needed including a full kitchen for me to cook. Based right in the city center with loads of s
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💵 Cost 😝 Cheap
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🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 22
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$913 / mo
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Langkawi
Malaysia
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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
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😀 Fun okay
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🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°AQI 65
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$1,318 / mo
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Malacca
Malaysia
Arrived yesterday, at Dreambase coworking now. A fascinating city in the sense that is seems strange, eerie, and sullen. It feels like the city was abandoned for 30 years and what remains is the population that decided to stay. Many random empty, lonely buildings. Patches of busyness dispersed in between patches of nullness. Everything feels just a little bit too far to walk. Grab works fine here for getting around. Extremely affordable. But so far it definitely doesn't feel like the place to be
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$1,079 / mo
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Johor Bahru
Malaysia
Johor is a dirty, ugly city across the causeway from northern Singapore. It's a very busy crossing both ways. I've been here many times to shop with my wife and MIL but have nothing to recommend. It was at least a cheap place to get glasses. Last time I went the 1MDB project had been launched to great fanfare in Johor. It was supposed to the the project that would unseat Singapore. It turned out to be a big scam and lots of people lost money, especially the Malay taxpayers. Other parts of Malay
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🌤 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°🥵AQI 62
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$890 / mo
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Ipoh
Malaysia
Great place, I stayed at bug n boats.....epics.s go to gua tempurung
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🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 76😷
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$1,453 / mo
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