I’ve got the opportunity to move back to Southeast Asia full time in the new year with a new employer and Cambodia is looming as the most convenient country to operate from.

The job only requires fifteen to twenty hours of work per week which is great, however these hours need to be spent in a quiet space, like a really quiet space which could be difficult to find.

AirBnb, guesthouses, and hotels (the ones I can afford) seem to out because of noise, and renting an office doesn’t make much sense with even co-working places in Phnom Penh like Basis Point or Workspace prices hard to justify for the time I need.

Soundproofing a room in an apartment might be an option.

Any advice or information on how to find a quiet space to work?

If it is so to conduct online meetings or teach, the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones come to mind.
They shield you from the environment and have very effective mikes that pickup your voice yet filter out almost everything going on around you..
They are available in Cambodia.

Username Taken wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:28 pm When you find that place, be sure to check the internet coverage, signal strength.

Agree, that's another thing to nail down.

yongchi wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:29 pm If it is so to conduct online meetings or teach, the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones come to mind.
They shield you from the environment and have very effective noise suppressing mikes that pickup your voice yet filter out almost everything going on around you..
They are available in Cambodia.

Thanks. I do currently use Sony XM4s and have to say I found them almost life changing when I first discovered them.

If you'll need to make calls, there's various software that helps kill your background noise in real time. Here's a decent one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/gu ... tup-guide/

The Tribe Hotel, nr the Post Office have dedicated working spaces in the quiet lobby. Go talk to them.