⭐️ Total score | 2.29/5 (Rank #677) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,281 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 10Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 34°C94°F (feels 40°C104°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 53% |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $179 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Nicaragua |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 34°C 94°F + 😊 Comfy (53%) = feels 40°C 104°F |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 100 NIO in USD | USD 2.72 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NIO 10,000 = USD 272 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 10% |
💻 Best coworking space | Co-labora |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Las Flores |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | El Coche Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | HOTEL LOS ROBLES |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,151 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 72% 👱♀️ 28% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Metropolitano |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,281 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $668 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,118 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $319 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,099 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,051 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $272 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $51 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $34 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $183 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
👩🏫 International school | $3 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8630° warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 8630° warm |
Real | 8630° very warm | 8932° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 8932° hot | 8831° hot | 8932° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm |
Humidity | nice 37% | nice 34% | nice 34% | nice 33% | nice 35% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 43% | nice 43% | nice 39% | nice 37% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 1mm | dry 0mm | dry 1mm | dry 7mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 160mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 114mm | rainy 175mm | rainy 207mm | rainy 53mm | dry 3mm |
Cloud | pockets 27% | pockets 15% | pockets 17% | pockets 32% | pockets 33% | pockets 43% | pockets 40% | pockets 45% | pockets 44% | pockets 40% | pockets 35% | pockets 21% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 350 people | 314 people | 257 people | 250 people | 280 people | 200 people | 267 people | 400 people | 280 people | 300 people | 350 people | 240 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 46✈️12h$5,046 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
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