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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 4 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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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

Lisbon is the next remote work hub of Europe. There's many reasons why I think that: 1) it already has somewhat of a startup/tech scene because of the annual Web Summit conference 2) which means internet is fast, and there's lots of meetups and it's easy to make friends 3) it's relatively affordable for foreigners compared to Spain and the rest of Europe 4) Portuguese people are super friendly, a lot more friendly than in the rest of the Mediterranean and Europe 5) Lisbon is ideal to go on day/w

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🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 15

$2,040 / mo

26Mbps

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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🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°AQI 55

$1,093 / mo

23Mbps

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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🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 48

$2,760 / mo

87Mbps

Barcelona

Spain

During winter is quite safe plus much cheaper. Some nightclubs are free and yet there is still a lot of people. Great por lgbtq+ community.

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🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 34

$2,878 / mo

39Mbps

Ubud, Bali

Indonesia

Honestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist

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🌧 Feels 34° 93° 27° 80°🥵AQI 26

$1,793 / mo

12Mbps

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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🌤 Feels 4° 39° 4° 38°AQI 74

$1,519 / mo

44Mbps

New York City, NY

United States

Having spent a total of two weeks in London on two separate occasions and having lived in NYC for two years, both are among my favorite cities in the world. Londoners are quite internationally and ethnically diverse, and seemingly better educated and more intellectual than New Yorkers in aggregate. The city very clean with a stunning mix of modern and historic architecture, and arguably has Europe's best public transit in terms of signage, availability, cleanliness and general efficiency. Meanw

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☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 20

$4,789 / mo

31Mbps

Phuket

Thailand

Living in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’

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🌦 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 40

$1,614 / mo

27Mbps

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United States

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☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 25

1yr

$3,263 / mo

42Mbps

Denmark

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☀️ Feels 4° 38° 5° 41°AQI 42

8mo

$4,375 / mo

46Mbps

France

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🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 56°AQI 59

4mo

$3,543 / mo

29Mbps

United Kingdom

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🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 41°AQI 70

2mo

$3,823 / mo

24Mbps

Thailand

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🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 46

21d

$1,380 / mo

23Mbps

Germany

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☀️ Feels 6° 42° 6° 43°AQI 34

12d

$2,878 / mo

31Mbps

Belgium

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🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 129😷

$3,115 / mo

42Mbps

Sweden

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☀️ Feels 2° 36° 3° 37°AQI 30

$2,770 / mo

36Mbps

🛬 Most visits

San Diego, CA

United States

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☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 31

$3,764 / mo

71Mbps

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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🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 42

$3,031 / mo

35Mbps

London

United Kingdom

London is the best city in the world - you just can't do it on a budget. It's got an amazing tech scene but ALSO world class media, fashion, finance, art industries and many others. If you don't want to live in a tech / expat mono-culture then it's for you. It is a genuine melting pot with a huge range of nationalities and cultures living together (the US has a large number of nationalities but there seems to be hard segregations between them geographically, economically, culturally - so they

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🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 78😷

$4,054 / mo

20Mbps

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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🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 41°AQI 32

$3,585 / mo

24Mbps

Paris

France

Super fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.

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🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 49°AQI 89😷

$4,033 / mo

29Mbps

Hamburg

Germany

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☀️ Feels 5° 41° 5° 41°AQI 44

$3,694 / mo

30Mbps

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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☀️ Feels 5° 41° 5° 42°AQI 65

$2,859 / mo

18Mbps

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 4° 39° 4° 39°AQI 34

$3,888 / mo

30Mbps

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San Diego, CA

United States

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☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 31

1yr

$3,764 / mo

71Mbps

Copenhagen

Denmark

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☀️ Feels 4° 39° 5° 41°AQI 16

8mo

$4,724 / mo

41Mbps

Paris

France

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🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 49°AQI 89😷

4mo

$4,033 / mo

29Mbps

London

United Kingdom

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🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 78😷

2mo

$4,054 / mo

20Mbps

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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🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 90°🥵AQI 57

21d

$1,542 / mo

25Mbps