⭐️ Total score | 2.32/5 (Rank #607) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,329 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 10°C50°F (feels 10°C50°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 28% |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy : 165 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $259 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Bolivia |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 10°C 50°F + 🌵 Too dry (28%) = feels 10°C 50°F |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 165 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 BOB in USD | USD 1.45 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BOB 1,000 = USD 145 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
💻 Best coworking space | Empowerment BO |
☕️ Best coffee place | Alexander Coffee |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Roaster Boutique |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | La Comédie |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 790,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,105 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Línea Aérea Amaszonas |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,329 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $630 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,559 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $445 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $960 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $701 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $246 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $45 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $23 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $244 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,759 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $24 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Cold all year round
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 5211° cool | 5412° cool | 5211° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5211° cool | 5412° cool | 5412° cool | 5412° cool |
Real | 5211° cool | 5412° cool | 5211° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5211° cool | 5412° cool | 5412° cool | 5412° cool |
Humidity | nice 41% | nice 38% | nice 38% | nice 33% | too dry 26% | too dry 22% | too dry 23% | too dry 24% | nice 32% | too dry 29% | nice 33% | nice 43% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 128mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 60mm | dry 27mm | dry 7mm | dry 7mm | dry 26mm | rainy 106mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 196mm |
Cloud | cloudy 55% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 50% | pockets 43% | pockets 35% | pockets 29% | pockets 13% | pockets 21% | pockets 33% | pockets 39% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 61% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 333 people | 429 people | 367 people | 500 people | 475 people | 300 people | 289 people | 364 people | 375 people | 429 people | 343 people | 325 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°✈️4h$2,082 / mo45Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 27° 81° 28° 83°✈️7h$2,146 / mo🌇 Also went here72 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°✈️9h$7,615 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 34✈️13h$4,778 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️13h$5,778 / mo🌇 Also went here77 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 64😷✈️13h$5,530 / mo🌇 Also went here73 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 57😷✈️15h$4,390 / mo🌇 Also went here63 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵✈️24h$4,170 / mo🌇 Also went here61 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 43° 109° 35° 95°🥵AQI 55😷✈️25h$1,339 / mo🌇 Also went here79 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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