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25 Mar '16

21d

15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16
25 Mar '16

Bangkok

35°C

Thailand

2015

30 Dec '15

3 Jan '16

3 Jan '16
30 Dec '15

Berlin

4°C

Germany

23 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15
23 Dec '15

Brussels

7°C

Belgium

10 Aug '15

8mo

24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16
10 Aug '15

Copenhagen

21°C

Denmark

2014

30 Dec '14

7mo

10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15
30 Dec '14

San Diego, CA

17°C

United States

17 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14
17 Dec '14

Stockholm

4°C

Sweden

24 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14
24 Aug '14

Prague

24°C

Czechia

22 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14
22 Aug '14

Munich

23°C

Germany

20 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14
20 Aug '14

Frankfurt

25°C

Germany

18 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14
18 Aug '14

Hamburg

22°C

Germany

17 Aug '14

4mo

23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14
17 Aug '14

Paris

24°C

France

16 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14
16 Aug '14

Berlin

24°C

Germany

15 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14
15 Aug '14

Edinburgh

18°C

United Kingdom

1 Jul '14

2mo

15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14
1 Jul '14

London

22°C

United Kingdom

2013

1 Sep '13

10mo

14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14
1 Sep '13

San Diego, CA

24°C

United States

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What's good places in South East Asia to work with beaches?

by @kumi | 5yr 5 years ago | 10 comments

Hi there, now I’m thinking to explorer beaches / islands in SE Asia which are good for nomad-working. Do you have any recommendations?

The conditions are, I think,
[Must]

Internet (faster is better)
Cheap living cost (My budget is about 500 USD/month)
Clean beach
[Want]
Good cafes
Good foods
Not so many people are there and not so famous already
Co-working space would be nice, but not necessary for me.

I’ve already found Koh Phangan in Thailand is amazing, and I’m going to try Koh Lanta
Now I’m in Sihanoukville Cambodia, it’s still nice (the beach I am is not so clean for swimming though), and going to travel Koh Ta Kiev for 2-3 days but unfortunately there is no wi-fi and only very-poor mobile internet, so I can’t say it’s for digital nomad.

I would appreciate if you share your brilliant experience
Thank you!

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✨ Recommended destinations

This is an algorithmic recommendation based on @ericste_in's trips history to find places they haven't been to yet that other people with similar travels as them also went and liked.

Lisbon

Portugal

poor signaling, disorientation, cleaning and disorganizing of the streets in Lisbon is similar to Naples in my opinion

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun great

👮 Safety good

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🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 37

$2,046 / mo

26Mbps

Singapore

They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital

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💵 Cost 🙂 Okay

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 21

$2,821 / mo

86Mbps

New York City, NY

United States

I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

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😀 Fun great

👮 Safety mediocre

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☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 14

$4,736 / mo

31Mbps

Budapest

Hungary

I stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 15

$1,573 / mo

38Mbps

Chiang Mai

Thailand

Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

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😀 Fun good

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🌥 Feels 48° 118° 36° 96°🥵AQI 74

$1,027 / mo

18Mbps

Los Angeles, CA

United States

Nothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun great

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 57

$4,378 / mo

51Mbps

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Putrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 34° 93° 27° 81°🥵AQI 24

$1,259 / mo

21Mbps

Barcelona

Spain

Lived in Barcelona for a year and a half. I would agree that the weather is perfect and Barcelona does have a great tech scene as well as food and has everything landscape and lifestyle wise that you could think of. Bureaucracy isn't too bad if you nip it in the bu** early and have patience. Also, some clubs are free. (Jamboree!). The metro is also, very efficient with red and purple being the busiest lines. Very walkable city too. Plenty of opportunity to meet people as well. The beaches are ok

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🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 22

$3,062 / mo

30Mbps

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United States

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

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😀 Fun mediocre

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🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 30

1yr

$3,192 / mo

44Mbps

Denmark

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 21

8mo

$4,449 / mo

54Mbps

France

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 15° 58° 15° 60°AQI 31

4mo

$3,604 / mo

28Mbps

United Kingdom

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 30

2mo

$4,011 / mo

27Mbps

Thailand

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety good

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🌧 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 57

21d

$1,302 / mo

21Mbps

Germany

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💵 Cost 🙂 Okay

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 28

12d

$2,970 / mo

32Mbps

Belgium

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 46

$3,258 / mo

42Mbps

Sweden

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💵 Cost 🙂 Okay

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 24

$2,826 / mo

37Mbps

🛬 Most visits

San Diego, CA

United States

⭐️ OverallAll

💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 34

$3,872 / mo

70Mbps

Berlin

Germany

Berlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

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😀 Fun great

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌦 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 34

$3,061 / mo

32Mbps

London

United Kingdom

How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun great

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 30

$4,326 / mo

23Mbps

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities and I've spent quite a bit of time here. It's charming, friendly, beautiful, and walkable, and has a range of cafes and coffeeshops with fast wifi. The downsides: it's pretty expensive (housing especially), and there doesn't seem to be much of a nomad scene. The general tech scene seems to be smallish but growing (CodeBase seems cool), but not many nomads seem to come here.

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

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😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety good

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 24

$3,643 / mo

24Mbps

Paris

France

After a month in Paris I can honestly say I have never enjoyed myself more from a culture perspective. The eating, drinking, and nightlife is excellent. People often complain that French people are rude but they have it all wrong. They are very formal. Dining is quite different as it doesn't align with the experience in America. In France restaurants are a space you are invited into and the waiters and chefs are professionals who know how best to treat you during your experience. They are in con

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 8

$4,119 / mo

32Mbps

Hamburg

Germany

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun great

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 3

$3,790 / mo

38Mbps

Frankfurt

Germany

Very luxurious yet has some parts of the city that are charming and have gothic architecture. A lot of tourists and people from Balkans who work in region. Pretty expensive. If you are not very rich just visit it and choose to stay in some other, more modest german city. In my opinion Frankfurt is city nr 3 in Germany after Berlin and Munich and I have travelled through much of Germany. Hamburg and Cologne are somewhere with the Frankfurt, but Frankfurt is more luxurious.

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💵 Cost 🙂 Okay

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😀 Fun good

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🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 18

$2,992 / mo

24Mbps

Munich

Germany

I've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of

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🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 16

$3,947 / mo

30Mbps

🛌 Most time spent

San Diego, CA

United States

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💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 34

1yr

$3,872 / mo

70Mbps

Copenhagen

Denmark

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast

😀 Fun mediocre

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 35

8mo

$4,850 / mo

54Mbps

Paris

France

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety mediocre

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🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 8

4mo

$4,119 / mo

32Mbps

London

United Kingdom

How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.

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💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun great

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 30

2mo

$4,326 / mo

23Mbps

Bangkok

Thailand

Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser

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💵 Cost 😙 Affordable

📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast

😀 Fun good

👮 Safety good

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🌥 Feels 49° 120° 35° 94°🥵AQI 42

21d

$1,365 / mo

25Mbps