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| ⭐️ Total score | 44 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Africa |
| 🚩 Country | Ethiopia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 19°C 66°F + 😊 Comfy (76%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 63 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 79 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 ETB in USD | USD 1.89 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | ETB 10,000 = USD 189 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Tomoca Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,700,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $687 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Africa World Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Ethiopian Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Bethzatha |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,669 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,139 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,562 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $732 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,325 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,253 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $737 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $62 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $41 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $117 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6619° mild | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild |
| Real | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild |
| Humidity | nice 43% | nice 47% | nice 38% | nice 46% | nice 55% | nice 62% | nice 94% | nice 90% | nice 91% | nice 57% | nice 46% | nice 46% |
| Rain | dry 7mm | rainy 60mm | dry 6mm | rainy 121mm | rainy 130mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 370mm | rainy 338mm | rainy 278mm | rainy 82mm | dry 2mm | dry 1mm |
| Cloud | pockets 34% | cloudy 54% | pockets 33% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 75% | overcast 92% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 53% | pockets 49% |
| Air quality | okay 68 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 68 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 79 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 46✈️2h$1,690 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleSo/so. Is not a bad place to live. Standard of living is really high, apartments are amazing as well. There is basically any kind of cuisine you can think of. Great (and expensive) nightlife. 0% taxes is great if you are willing to go through the hoops. Cons: Is oppressively hot during summer. You need a car to get around or spend absurd amounts monthly on taxis. It might get really expensive but you can definitely save by buying smart. I would be back as a tourist but not for remote working on
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 44° 111° 33° 92°🥵AQI 199😷✈️3h$3,774 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleI've spent 4 years in Istanbul, it was one of my best experience. I met amazing people, but also a loooooot (looooot) of scams even from people I considered friends. So be careful of whom you trust there, but instead of that it is a magical city, always something to do, very beautiful, and affordable, and as a women I felt very safe there (learnt turkish but even before that I felt safe)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 34✈️5h$2,101 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 32✈️7h$4,626 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleI really enjoyed Cape Town, and was there for May/June. Overall it was an incredible experience for me, a real adventure. I'd highly recommend. Pros -It's one of the most beautiful cities on earth, cheap compared to Europe, beaches, surfing, vineyards, wildlife (I did cage shark diving and a safari in Addo), world class hiking (do lions head sunrise and sunset) also uber is cheap (£1.50 for most of my rides). Negatives - are the crime, depressing wealth/racial inequality, not recommended to go
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 13✈️7h$2,925 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleBerlin 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 26✈️7h$3,750 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 34✈️7h$5,736 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleJust came back from my second proper trip to Copenhagen. Now, I've been there in February and August, which is a huge contrast in this city. Winter: Copenhagen is great for cafes, working in them and experiencing the "hygge" (coziness) lifestyle. Why? Because the weather is so cold, windy and partly rainy that you just don't want to spend time outside. If you have someone to cuddle with, I highly recommend going there in Winter. Summer: Just amazing. If the weather is good you have several
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 26✈️8h$5,677 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 14° 57° 15° 60°AQI 25✈️8h$6,064 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 129😷✈️8h$5,104 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 30° 85°🥵AQI 63✈️9h$1,905 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 38✈️10h$4,980 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 15° 59°AQI 23✈️15h$6,600 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleI really enjoyed my trip to DC for one week. I did NOT feel comfortable walking around many places alone because there are a lot of mentally ill/drugged out people. During daylight with other people I felt fine. There are soo many restaurants, interesting boutique gyms, cool libraries and more. The variety you can find in DC is closer to NYC than you can find most places. The memorials are pretty cool. There are a lot of free museums which are impressive. I liked the Lincoln Memorial/Gettysburg
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 64°AQI 23✈️15h$5,402 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people
