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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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$1,088 / mo
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Putrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
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🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85°🥵AQI 65
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$1,276 / 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 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 20
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$782 / 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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🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 22
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$876 / mo
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Langkawi
Malaysia
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🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 45
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$1,299 / 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° 28° 83°🥵AQI 55
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$1,005 / 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 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵AQI 52
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$1,178 / 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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🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 85°🥵AQI 54
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$1,008 / mo
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