Ofcourse it depends on how you live. If you rent, stay guesthouse or whatever you decide.
This is near the lower end of costs if you just have a basic lifestyle with your own room and allways eating outside. You can live here for less or alot more aswell.
Recently i lived in Phnom penh for four months and stayed in Hello guesthouse on st136 short after st19 on right side facing the river.
Ok rooms (alltho they needed a paintjob like most khmer guesthouse rooms).
Price for one kingsize bed = 7$ or two queensize 8$, with fan. Or 12$ for aricon.
First time i came here i spent alot of money as i had not learned where to go, what the stalls serve etc so i ended up eating alot of poorly cooked imitations of western food.
I recommend do eat where the locals eat. Good food to right price. Even if the expensive food on riverside could still be considered cheap when coming from your home country it often just give you a missleading experience of khmer food. You might end up going home saying how awful the food was. Because you never tried the real one.
Look for small restaurants with a glassmonter facing the street. They cook the food and place on the inside for you too look and choose what you want to eat.
For example you can get rice with fried chicken and sweetsour sauce for just 1$.
After a while in this country you could easily turn out spending half the money on food then what you started on. I usually spend about 5$ a day on food.
Breakfast: Rice chicken sauce 1$
Snack: Dried squid with lime/peppersauce and pappayasallad 1000riel per squid.
Dinner: Fried rice with egg 1,75$
Perhaps a bag of nuts or half litre of soymilk for the high energy and protein (0,75$).
When it comes to water you should look for the small shops on the streets where you can buy 50cl bottles of water for 500 riel. A 12 pack however you can buy for 1$. In a minimart you usually end up paying 75c just for 1,5 liter. Now you get 6 liter for just 25c more. Save your 2$ for something more fun then water. I would not be supriced if water is one of the big moneymaker for the minimarts thinking of how expensive it is. 3$ for 6liter vs 1$ on street.
It is really cheap to live here. When it comes to just surviving. However its stil easy to spend money in a fast rate. Not least when you think everything is so cheap that you keep your wallet open.
Other prices:
Beer: in a bar 0,5-0,75$ happy hour. Then usually 1$.
Motobike taxi, short ride: 1$
Tuktuk short ride: 2$
Cigarettes: Cheap ones 0,5$, Malboro 1,5$.
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