⭐️ Total score | 2.67/5 (Rank #671) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,328 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 14°C57°F (feels 14°C57°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 0% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 133 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 131 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Baoding is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 14°C 57°F + 🌵 Too dry (0%) = feels 14°C 57°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 133 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 131.5 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.47 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 147 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
💻 Best coworking space | TechTemple |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Lohaus |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Pacific Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 900,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air China |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,328 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,094 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,971 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $849 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $695 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $816 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $852 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $33 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $27 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $148 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $0 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 0° freezing | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7926° warm | 9334° hot | 10038° hot | 9032° hot | 7725° warm | 6317° cool | 5211° cool | 394° cold |
Real | 341° very cold | 479° cold | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7926° warm | 8731° hot | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 6116° cool | 5211° cool | 415° very cold |
Humidity | nice 30% | nice 42% | nice 54% | nice 40% | nice 34% | nice 61% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | nice 84% | nice 66% | nice 62% | nice 41% |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 17mm | dry 16mm | dry 6mm | dry 10mm | dry 38mm | rainy 215mm | rainy 80mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 90mm | dry 36mm | dry 2mm |
Cloud | clear 8% | pockets 23% | pockets 48% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 50% | pockets 17% | pockets 16% |
Air quality | bad 214 US AQI | bad 181 US AQI | bad 160 US AQI | bad 143 US AQI | bad 135 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI | bad 134 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 156 US AQI | bad 168 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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I lived in Beijing for almost 3 years from 2014-2017. It's an incredible city with a lot to offer. It's an imposing place and not the most welcoming, but that's because it takes time to adjust. In a nutshell: beautiful parks, very modern infrastructure , friendly people, good transportation (the subway is FAR superior to London or NYC, for example), amazing food, relatively cheap, extremely safe, loads to do, incredible history. The one major con is the air pollution—it can get really bad, so
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