⭐️ Total score | 1.92/5 (Rank #1226) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $6,050 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C80°F (feels 30°C86°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 73% |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $2,854 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | British Virgin Islands |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 30°C 86°F |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
☕️ Best coffee place | Bean |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Omar's Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 5,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $34,246 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 65% 👱♀️ 35% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
🏥 Best hospital | Peebles Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $6,050 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,978 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $6,666 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,905 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,864 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $6,628 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,500 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $181 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $217 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $264 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $22 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $16,200 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $10 / month |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 8630° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | nice 77% | nice 77% | nice 76% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 74% |
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Rain | dry 38mm | dry 33mm | dry 28mm | dry 46mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 66mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 123mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 62mm | rainy 54mm |
Cloud | pockets 22% | pockets 16% | pockets 14% | pockets 20% | pockets 18% | pockets 33% | pockets 22% | pockets 22% | pockets 18% | pockets 22% | pockets 18% | pockets 18% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 240 people | 240 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 280 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵✈️23h$4,306 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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