⭐️ Total score | 2.32/5 (Rank #593) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,969 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 43Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C74°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 35% |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 31 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
🗓️ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 43 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (35%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 32 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Mojo |
☕️ Best coffee place | Clingman Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Caffeind |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 87,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Jet Blue |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Mission Health |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,969 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,590 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,452 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,558 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,857 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,106 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,070 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $87 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $102 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $306 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $17 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
👩🏫 International school | $16,667 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $70 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $8 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ 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
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 415° cold | 394° cold | 5915° cool | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 489° cold | 5714° cool |
Real | 436° very cold | 415° very cold | 5815° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7424° warm | 7926° warm | 8027° warm | 7323° mild | 6720° mild | 489° cold | 5614° cool |
Humidity | nice 33% | nice 36% | too dry 30% | too dry 30% | nice 36% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 43% | nice 41% | nice 40% | too dry 29% | nice 32% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | rainy 64mm | rainy 88mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 119mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 88mm | rainy 82mm | dry 9mm | dry 29mm |
Cloud | pockets 36% | pockets 41% | pockets 39% | pockets 29% | pockets 42% | pockets 46% | pockets 38% | pockets 36% | pockets 32% | pockets 35% | pockets 20% | pockets 26% |
Air quality | clean 23 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 267 people | 229 people | 300 people | 240 people | 300 people | 533 people | 333 people | 375 people | 320 people | 375 people | 244 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 34✈️10h$3,915 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 5° 41° 7° 45°AQI 59😷✈️10h$3,405 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×Budapest was on my list about cities for living. I stayed for 7 days and was a little disappointed People are not very friendly, lots os places very dirty, people smoke a lot and the costs isn't affordable as people indicated here. Its a beautiful place, walkable, people have a good level of education, lots of things to do, but not as i imagined. Even so its a nice place.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 38° 100° 36° 97°🥵AQI 176😷✈️19h$956 / mo🌇 Also went here24 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 43° 109° 36° 97°🥵AQI 79😷✈️19h$1,331 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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