Paull Dodemaide

I run Rental Alert, a site that tracks live rental listings across Southeast Asia — currently covering Da Nang (Vietnam), Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kampot and Sihanoukville (Cambodia), Chiang Mai (Thailand), and Kuala Lumpur and Penang (Malaysia). We monitor rental communities popular with expats and digital nomads and bring listings together on one map with real prices, so renters don't have to hunt through dozens of scattered sources. Because we're working with real current listings rather than survey data, I can speak to what rent actually looks like right now in these markets — median prices by city, how they've moved month to month, and what's realistic on different budgets. having lived in and visited all of the locations featured, I'm a useful source for stories on: cost of living ...