⭐️ Total score | 2.67/5 (Rank #759) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,870 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 23Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C74°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 48% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 54 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 6 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Very high |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,506 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Australia |
⏱ Average trip length | 20 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 23 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (48%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 54 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 7 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 6.62 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AUD 100 = USD 66 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Hub Adelaide |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | That Space |
☕️ Best coffee place | Bar 9 |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $54,069 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 87% 👱♀️ 13% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Kogan |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Virgin Australia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qantas |
🏥 Best hospital | Royal Hospital Adelaide |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,870 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,146 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $6,673 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,907 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,314 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,030 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,423 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $108 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $99 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $369 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $23 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $13,160 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $40 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $9,580 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $27,512 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $91,425 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5915° cool | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7624° warm | 7926° warm | 6921° mild | 6418° cool | 6016° cool | 5815° cool | 5815° cool | 6217° cool | 6720° mild | 7423° warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 60% | nice 60% | nice 62% | nice 64% | nice 65% | damp 76% | damp 74% | damp 74% | nice 67% | nice 63% | nice 58% | nice 59% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain | dry 17mm | dry 29mm | dry 26mm | dry 15mm | dry 40mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 54mm | dry 41mm | dry 43mm | dry 50mm | dry 2mm |
Cloud | pockets 38% | pockets 38% | pockets 38% | pockets 45% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 57% | pockets 49% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 70% | pockets 36% |
Air quality | clean 8 US AQI | clean 8 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 7 US AQI | clean 7 US AQI | clean 7 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI |
Remote workers | 240 people | 425 people | 400 people | 311 people | 250 people | 200 people | 300 people | 250 people | 289 people | 300 people | 400 people | 343 people |
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Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️52min$3,587 / mo23Mbps×I have been to Canberra multiple times now. It is not easy to make friends here but once you managed to, it is a very homely place. It is also a great place to study because the distractions are in Sydney & Melbourne. In terms of good food, I recommend Charcoal Rooster's Turkish Pizza
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 17✈️1h$5,805 / mo23Mbps×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️2h$4,524 / mo85Mbps×i lived here during the plandemic for 3 months, it's like living in a big city, traffic is hectic. plenty of bars if you like that thing, and restaurants. Nice beach
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️2h$5,896 / mo23Mbps×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 20✈️2h$3,891 / mo23Mbps×I was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 23✈️3h$3,145 / mo25Mbps×Filled with rude provincial locals. Hard to fit in here and make friends. Extremely cliquey culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 5✈️3h$4,317 / mo23Mbps×Horrible place full of alcoholic men who like to fight, no women so the vibe is awful. nothing to do except drink yourself stupid!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 40° 104° 32° 90°🥵AQI 48✈️3h$4,842 / mo25Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️52min$3,587 / mo23Mbps×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️2h$4,524 / mo85Mbps×Filled with rude provincial locals. Hard to fit in here and make friends. Extremely cliquey culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 5✈️3h$4,317 / mo23Mbps×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 55😷✈️7h$4,034 / mo54Mbps×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 20✈️2h$3,891 / mo23Mbps×I was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 23✈️3h$3,145 / mo25Mbps×Can’t recommend Ubud. It’s just the same overdeveloped and overpriced mentally isolated tourist trap that is Canggu, just a bit worse. If you have never been anywhere else, it might be okay for 2 weeks, but to any seasoned traveller it’s a the type of place you dread.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 106😷✈️5h$1,990 / mo36Mbps×Hong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 118😷✈️9h$2,870 / mo41Mbps×i lived here during the plandemic for 3 months, it's like living in a big city, traffic is hectic. plenty of bars if you like that thing, and restaurants. Nice beach
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️2h$5,896 / mo23Mbps×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 39° 102° 32° 89°🥵AQI 103😷✈️9h$1,412 / mo82Mbps×I find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42°AQI 17✈️22h$6,000 / mo28Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️52min$3,587 / mo🌇 Also went here90 people×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️2h$4,524 / mo🌇 Also went here111 people×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 20✈️2h$3,891 / mo🌇 Also went here69 people×Filled with rude provincial locals. Hard to fit in here and make friends. Extremely cliquey culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 5✈️3h$4,317 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Busy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 78😷✈️4h$3,224 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 55😷✈️7h$4,034 / mo🌇 Also went here79 people×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 39° 102° 32° 89°🥵AQI 103😷✈️9h$1,412 / mo🌇 Also went here91 people×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 59😷✈️10h$1,021 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 9✈️10h$2,988 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 34✈️17h$5,653 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 69°AQI 37✈️18h$5,343 / mo🌇 Also went here67 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 38✈️20h$5,085 / mo🌇 Also went here56 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 5° 41° 8° 46°AQI 28✈️22h$5,024 / mo🌇 Also went here67 people×I find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42°AQI 17✈️22h$6,000 / mo🌇 Also went here85 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 23✈️23h$7,576 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×