Earn all you can,
save all you can,
give all you can.

-John Wesley

the wife and I 5k including house loan.

monthly fixed expenditure

Car loan - 400
Housing loan - 1200
Study loan - 400
Family Insurance - 1000
HP - 60

monthly variable expenditure
Petrol - 240 ~ 300
Touch n Go - 150 ~200
F&B - ~900
Brother pocket money - 100 ~ 200
Entertainment ~200

Just did an assessment the other day and I think it came up to about 7k+ a month for house, car, insurance, and utilities.

Below is roughly the expenses every month for the three of us (married with one newborn). Both of us are working, and we are still young (between 25 and 30). It's quite detailed because we keep track of our expenses every month for over a year already.

Rent: RM800 (single storey terrace house in Seri Kembangan; this will increase to RM900 next year)
Car Loan: RM700 (2014 Proton Preve Exec, which my wife bought before I even knew her, so don't judge me )
Eating Out: RM400 (quite low because we bring lunchbox almost everyday)
Groceries: RM400 (including non-food items like shampoo, tissue, etc.)
Petrol: RM400 (our car's average fuel efficiency is 9.3 l/100km, so this translates to roughly 2100km per month)
Toll: RM100
Clothing/Appliances/Furnitures: RM50 – RM100 (once every 2 – 3 months)
Parking: RM10 (mostly for parking in shopping malls)
Service charge: RM10 (misc charges, such as RM0.53 charged when doing instant transfer)
Giving/Gifts: RM100 – RM150 (occasional donations to charity, buying friends/relatives small gifts, etc.)
Movies: RM30 (we watch one movie every month, and we usually take advantage of promotion from CC)
TNB: RM50 – RM70
Internet: RM187 (Unifi 50mbps)
Phone bill: RM100 (Umobile P70 + Share 20)
Software subscriptions: RM37.99 (Office 365 for my whole family)
Parents: RM1,165 (We give RM250 to each parent, and help my wife's parents pay their Unifi 10mbps bill)
Siblings: RM200 (We give our non-working siblings RM50 each)
Health + Life insurance: RM484
Blow money: RM50 – RM100 (this is my wife's off-budget money)
PTPTN: RM400
Mortgage: RM450++ (partial payment for our undercon apartment)
Child: RM500 – RM700 (newborn; mostly for diapers and nursery)
IWK saving: RM8 (RM25.44 every 3 months)
Auto insurance + road tax saving: RM75 (roughly RM900 every year)
Car maintenance saving: RM170 (for minor service, major service, change battery, and change tyres)
Vacation saving: RM100 – RM150 (we go on a budget vacation every 3 – 4 months)

There are still areas for improvement which we will work on over time:

- Our health and life insurance is overpriced. I'm planning to switch to standalone health insurance + term life insurance, instead of the current whole life insurance with health insurance as riders. We can probably shave RM200 by doing so, and we will be investing the difference.
- Our car loan is quite expensive. Not much we can do but continue paying it. Still 6 years to go. After it is paid off, we will never purchase another new car. We will only purchase second hand car with cash.
- Petrol and toll can be reduced. Currently I travel 70km to and from work everyday. I probably can cut this down by renting near my workplace, or get a remote job.
- Phone bill can be reduced further by RM20 – RM30 by switching to Umobile P38/P48 + P28. Our current plan is overkill, as we usually end up using less than 50% of our quota. However, my wife requires a plan with unlimited call, so Umobile is the cheapest, hence why we're with Umobile.
- PTPTN will be paid off in 6 years. It's under my wife's name, and it's already in CCRIS because she did not pay for it before we got married. It's a good thing because that prevents her from asking me to bring her to vacation overseas.
- We are currently paying for both rent and mortgage partial payment, which sucks. Not much we can do other than suck it up until end of 2018.

Our loan is not huge and cars paid off.

1600 loan.
300 utilities
550 transport fuel etc
1200 food
500 insurance
800 entertainment and life vicissitudes

Parents siblings all richer than me. We are 30. Not big spenders but not scrooges either. We very often dip into our savings pool to treat ourselves. But I've worked out this is what we spend each month to live comfortably.

loan housing = rm1500(27 years to go)
utilities = rm50
transportation = rm150
food = rm50 (mostly have in hotel for free)
insurance & investment plan = rm750
entertainment and dating = rm250

Late 30s, wife early 30 and a daughter

Fixed expenditure:
Phone and internet: HKD400
Insurance: MYR 900 and HKD 2000
School Fee: HKD7500
Utilties: HKD1500
Rent: 20000

Variable:
Daily necessities: HKD10000
Pocket money that includes transportation:  HKD5000x 2.

I also have about monthly 5000MYR commitment in Malaysia as well.

Total just for HKD is about 52000HKD

bank loan 7500??
the total only take 3 times my monthly salary 

I am at management level. My wife do work as well.  As for average, I am not too sure, I think its HKD40K/month
Actually with the rent I am paying I can get a very comfortable apartment in MT Kiara but not in HK. Just about average size. Also n ot having a car really save a lot.

On average I save 50% of our salary.

Salary depends very much on the industry I guess. Finance will definitely be higher here in HK. Mid management I think its 50K-70K, and Sernior management is about 100K. What I am getting now is actually much higher than industry average simply because they have been looking for year to fill this position and also I have a good HH.

I know I cannot compare...but human will still compare... Moving from KL->Tokyo->HK...house size getting smaller but the money I am paying is getting higher!
If you talked about "space" then definitely Malaysia is better. But if you are a fresh grad, young and energetic, HK is one of the place to be. Things are moving fast, more international exposure and also the China factor as well. Also here its always about $$$. But yeah, nothing beats the food, life and spaces in Malaysia....and also the "traffic"

I am in early 30s and single. Monthly expenses:

RM750 for food + snack + beverage
RM520 for room rental + unifi
RM300 for family
RM150 for LRT + uber/grab
RM350 for life + medic insurance
RM30  for mobile prepaid
RM25  for haircut
RM25  for groceries
RM50  for misc.

Total = RM2,200 (Is it too little or too much?)

Early 20s. Single.
Around

600 car
200 petrol
200 family mobile bill
2k insurance
10k investments total
1k food and entertainment

1.1 juta Rupiah - room rental
Miscellaneous spending - 12juta Rupiah
Supplement for myself and Gf - 6juta rupiah

Income = 0

Just move to Indo early this month . Not working now...

One word
Cheaper