⭐️ Total score | 2.78/5 (Rank #495) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,003 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C81°F (feels 33°C91°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 94% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 20 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Good |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
⏱ Average trip length | 18 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 27°C 81°F + 🥵 Sweaty (94%) = feels 33°C 91°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 20 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 1.96 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 196 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Hub 728 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Boulevard Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 39% 👱♀️ 61% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | TAM |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | TAM |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital General Belem |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,003 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,111 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,258 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $645 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $948 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $783 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $427 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $44 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $26 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $241 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $11 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Real | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 93% | sweaty 95% | sweaty 95% | sweaty 94% | sweaty 92% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 91% |
Rain | rainy 463mm | rainy 561mm | rainy 730mm | rainy 533mm | rainy 439mm | rainy 339mm | rainy 287mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 158mm | rainy 151mm | rainy 276mm | rainy 337mm |
Cloud | cloudy 82% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 50% | pockets 44% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 83% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵✈️2h$1,516 / mo11Mbps×The pictures here are nonsense. There are no high rises at the moment. Prices are also not in touch with reality, much higher actual because of the oil boom.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 62✈️2h$2,539 / mo2Mbps×There are not a lot of places to work from, there are not many cafes. The city is not so fun, but the city is close to great dunes and beaches. The sitances are relatively long and since its always very hot it is not ideal to walk. My score would be nomad score would be 2.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵✈️2h$1,359 / mo6Mbps×Brasilia is a hidden gem in the middle of Brazil. Very safe city, with good restaurants, super safe traffic, very green, perfect for biking, and with a high level of education. Shaped like an airplane, it is the most famous planned town in the world, by legendary architect Oscar Niemayer. Internet is good, you can rent a cheap Airbnb, most of them with a green view, There are more than 800 waterfalls close by (check Chapada dos Veadeiros) and hiking spots. The climate very pleasant as long as
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 35✈️2h$2,313 / mo7Mbps×A quite underrated city, deserves more visitors! Great beaches, delicious food and probably the cheapest capital in Brazil. Just go!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵✈️2h$2,149 / mo4Mbps×Recife is one of Brazil´s larggest urban areas, with caothic traffic and other big cities problems, like insecurity. But it has so much colonial history, beautiful beaches and cool neighborhoods. The best area do stay is the south zone, specially Boa Viagem neighborhood. Recife is well knoe in Brazil for it´s famous carnival and cultural life, and in economical aspects, for the tech scene, with a lot of startups. Is such a beatutiful city to visit, with a lot of rivers and bridges, modern arc
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°✈️2h$2,263 / mo6Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 65✈️3h$2,325 / mo6Mbps×Recife is one of Brazil´s larggest urban areas, with caothic traffic and other big cities problems, like insecurity. But it has so much colonial history, beautiful beaches and cool neighborhoods. The best area do stay is the south zone, specially Boa Viagem neighborhood. Recife is well knoe in Brazil for it´s famous carnival and cultural life, and in economical aspects, for the tech scene, with a lot of startups. Is such a beatutiful city to visit, with a lot of rivers and bridges, modern arc
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 46✈️7h$6,186 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×I'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 2° 36° 4° 40°AQI 50✈️10h$5,676 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 34✈️10h$5,149 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 139😷✈️21h$1,373 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×Bangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
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