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28 Jan '19

2mo

31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19
28 Jan '19

Malaga

16°C

Spain

2018

27 Sep '18

4mo

24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19
27 Sep '18

Prague

19°C

Czechia

10 Sep '18

16d

26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18
10 Sep '18

Myanmar

2016

21 Jun '16

2yr

9 Sep '18

9 Sep '18
21 Jun '16

Prague

26°C

Czechia

6 Jun '16

14d

20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16
6 Jun '16

Split

29°C

Croatia

30 May '16

6 Jun '16

6 Jun '16
30 May '16

Montenegro

17 Apr '16

1mo

29 May '16

29 May '16
17 Apr '16

Kalamata

Greece

12 Mar '16

1mo

17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16
12 Mar '16

Athens

18°C

Greece

28 Feb '16

13d

12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16
28 Feb '16

Thessaloniki

13°C

Greece

2015

4 Feb '15

20d

24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15
4 Feb '15

Sri Lanka

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I'm looking for a European city with a great connection to the outdoors. Help?

by @justinbosco | 3yr 3 years ago | 23 comments

I’m in the middle of doing some research for our next destination within Europe and I’m hoping to get some suggestions from some outdoor enthusiasts who’ve spent time on the continent.

My favorite cities are Innsbruck, Austria and Bergen, Norway because you can be downtown having a beer one minute and then… boom… up the mountain in the middle of nowhere 15 minutes later. I’m looking for a similar place to spend a month or two this winter. Places like these are hard to find because “mid-size european cities with great hiking nearby” doesn’t return too many relevant results on Google. Great adventure towns are usually in the middle of nowhere, the kind of places you’ll need to rent a car to get to the grocery store, and places with good public transportation are usually concrete jungles. But places like Innsbruck and Bergen manage to combine the best of both worlds.

Has anyone come across similar places they’d recommend?

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Formentera, Spain vs. Santorini, Greece?

in Santorini, Greece by @que | 4yr 4 years ago | 5 comments

Hi,
I’m ready to start traveling again (looking at May through August, about). I have a little more money to spend and would like an island experience in Southern Europe. I’m a little older and looking for a little more comfort these days. I would plan to rent a 1 bedroom apartment if possible. Places that come to mind are Formentera or Santorini. I’d like to stay for 2 or 3 months. Does anyone have any experiences to share with these two locales. One concern I have about Greece is safety given the economic crisis. Any insight into there would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Lisbon

Portugal

Please stop going to Lisbon, stop telling people to go Lisbon. It is a beautiful city, yes. The Portuguese people are some of the nicest, warmest I've ever had the privilege to meet, yes. But the housing crisis in Portugal is real and terrible. Airbnb and temporary accommodation for tourists / nomads, combined with rich foreigners who can afford exorbitant rents, are pushing locals out of their homes: literally. Search about the housing crisis, the police-enforced evictions of families and the e

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$2,061 / mo

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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 36° 97° 29° 84°🥵AQI 32

$1,104 / mo

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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 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 23

$2,938 / mo

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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° 30° 86°🥵AQI 73

$1,430 / mo

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Belgrade

Serbia

I stayed in Belgrade for over a week. I had high expectations based on the Nomad List ranking, but having been to every other capital in the Balkans, found it utterly disappointing. The city is not particularly walkable, the infrastructure is in a sad state, and there is practically no interesting architecture or urban development to speak of, be it historical, communist, or contemporary. Pollution is a real problem. To make matters worse, people smoke all the time, everywhere, including insid

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🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 61

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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 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 21

$3,884 / mo

20Mbps

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 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 56

$2,759 / mo

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Zagreb

Croatia

Didn't plan to come to Zagreb, and so had no expectations. Turned out to be a lovely, liveable city, so much so that I extended my stay by several weeks! Contrary to some of the comments from a year ago, it is now very vegan friendly, cards are universally accepted, steady WiFi si abundant, and many other people are working from coffee shops. The city is very walkable, and more affordable than Split or Dubrovnik.

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Czechia

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3yr

$1,944 / mo

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Greece

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☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 18

3mo

$3,088 / mo

13Mbps

Spain

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☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 24

2mo

$2,594 / mo

32Mbps

Sri Lanka

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🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 99😷

20d

$961 / mo

8Mbps

Croatia

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14d

$1,887 / mo

18Mbps

Montenegro

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$1,738 / mo

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Prague

Czechia

My husband and I spent about 6 weeks testing Prague in Nov-Dec 2018 as we were considering it as a semi-permanent base of operations for the next year or two. Honestly it was great and we plan on leaving Malta where we have been for the past year. Pluses - transportation is very good and quite cheap, tons of restaurants, lots to do. People are more reserved, perhaps even a bit suspicious, so I would not say it was an OVERLY welcoming vibe, however there are a lot of expats from the US, CA, UK

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🌤 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 17

$1,944 / mo

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Thessaloniki

Greece

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$2,042 / mo

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Athens

Greece

Like all cities that have lots of tourists, it's best to explore a little and get off the well beaten track. There are literally thousands of small cafes and bars that have free, fast WiFi, cheap coffee and good kebabs. If you stay in the absolute cheapest part of town, you will get a different vibe. There are a lot of AirBnB springing up and in the off-season these are very reasonably priced. I can't understand how you could be bored in Athens. So many places to see, so many museums and histo

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Split

Croatia

I spent a month in Split and really enjoyed it. The weather was excellent for 90% of my time there (September) and the city is beautiful, with easy access to much of the Adriatic portion of Croatia and the islands. It's not a huge city, which means that it's very walkable, but I did start getting a little bored and there's not a ton of restaurants that aren't overpriced and touristy. I'd say that it's a great base to explore Croatia, but that if you're planning on staying for more than a month o

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Malaga

Spain

Its the paradise but getting really expensive! It actually makes sense! I would recomend Fuengirola! Regardles of the fact that is more expensive than Malaga city center. Good luck in la costa del sol. It hepls you if you speak Spanish! You are in Spain! Dont forget that!

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$2,405 / mo

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