Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 160 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Oceania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🚩 Country | Samoa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 8 days | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌧 30°C 87°F + 💦 Humid (74%) + 💨 5km/h = Feels like 36°C 97°F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | BlueSky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 💸 10 WST in USD | USD 3.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: WST 1,000 | USD 377 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Coffee Bean Cafe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Tanoa Apia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Tanoa Apia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 37,000 people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Fiji Airways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Fiji Airways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏥 Best hospital | Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $2,244 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,297 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,172 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $621 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $377 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $187 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,603 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $75 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (28 listings) | $2,418 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $79 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $6 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
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🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 22° 72°AQI 31✈️4h$3,108 / mo27MbpsBusy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 22° 72°AQI 31✈️4h$3,108 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleNot cheap, but you get what you're paying for. Really nice, comfortable city, not too dirty or crowd
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 25° 77° 24° 75°AQI 26✈️7h$3,083 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleJust don't. Want to get ANY work done? Don't come here. I'm here now, hey. I wanna die. If 50 Kbps i
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 18✈️10h$1,441 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peoplePersonally I hated it. Being somewhat of a SEA vet, I found it crowded, over touristed, expensive an
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 31° 89°🥵AQI 25✈️11h$1,410 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleIt truly is a garden city - the amount of green space is mindboggling. Everywhere you go it's green
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 19✈️13h$2,883 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleDefinitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neig
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 4° 39° 4° 38°AQI 117😷✈️13h$2,152 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI think KL will be the next hub for nomads. It's affordable, safe, convenient, has decent Internet a
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 85°🥵✈️13h$1,297 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleHorrifically expensive, locals have very low social skills and emotional availability (after a year
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -5° 23° 0° 32°AQI 28✈️15h$3,267 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI've been there in summer. I don't understand why the rate of walkability is bad, that is ridiculous
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 1° 34° 1° 34°AQI 23✈️20h$4,028 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleSpent a month in Belarus this July - we have some good friends there we work with so it was an excel
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 14✈️20h$1,797 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleBeen living in Berlin for a couple of months. Not worth it anymore. Cold, gray, sad, more expensive
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 15✈️21h$3,002 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleMy main concern with Chisinau is that there is basically only one decent coffee shop in town, namely
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 53°✈️21h$1,212 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleAs a local there, I can say that I almost never carry cash with me. This has not been a problem for
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 3✈️22h$5,202 / mo🌇 Also went here1 people✅ Very safe
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are pretty bad
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
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