Thankyou very much, We were just considering a 2-3 Bedroom house or villa, or whatever is cheaper preferabley Furnished. I will be teaching English, and my pay will be about 7oooooo RP/ month... Will that be enough to support my family? Or do you think my partner will have to get a job aswell??
Holly,from your posting i assume you have never been to Bali.correct me if i am wrong.
You can live on that if you rethink your way of living.Car?forget it.Used cars are ridiculously overpriced.A 15 years old toyota Kijang with 500.000 kms still will fetch like 70 million.Small economic cars like a Karimun are even more overpriced.
If you search well and do not go for a fashionable neighbourhood,you can find an indonesian style house for 20-30 million a year.To be paid in advance.If you are lucky the owner willl do the maintenance but do not count on it.Count for electricity around 300.000 per month.That house would not have more than 2200 watt ,so hard to go over that.With that amount of electricity,you do not have to bother with electrical appliances that need a lot of juice anyway.Cold washing machines take 350 watt.Best rent an unfurnished house and get everyting at garagesales from the Baliadvertiser:
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Everybody uses handphones here,cheap and handy.Landlines are a luxury,but when there is one in your house,it will not cost much more than 300.000rp for phone and speedy adsl internet connection +the calls.Everybody here uses sms for economy.
It also depends very much on where you are going to work.If in Sanur,there are more affordable places in villages nearby,then say Kuta or Seminyak.
Food is cheap,imported goods not,wine is exorbitantly expensive.Most balinese families live on budgets between one million to two million,but they are living in familycompounds that they own and share with other members of their family,also sharing costs of electricity and water.Your employer should be paying for your visa costs,Kitas and workingpermit.Unless you are married,there will be the extra cost of vsa for your partner,more difficult also,because without work you can not get a year-round visa.See the visa-thread on this forum for that.I am not even sure that if you are married your visum will automatically include your family.There are minimum income rules for foreigners.When you have a well filled bankaccount at home it may be easier.
If you would like to have a (part time) babysit or nanny for your kid,that would not be expensive.Plenty of young girls,very apt with younger siblings,would like to do that.Add the cost of feeding her.
Work for your partner can be very difficult.teaching seems about the only job acceptable to the immigration authorities.
Besides all that,Bali is a delightful place to stay,so let all this not deter you from trying.
Good luck!