⭐️ Total score | 2.15/5 (Rank #956) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,904 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 17Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C84°F (feels 34°C93°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 78% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $1,471 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (78%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 TTD in USD | USD 1.47 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TTD 1,000 = USD 147 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Dianne Tea Shop |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Jaffa at the Oval |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | LaunchRockit |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 37,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $17,646 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
🏠 Apartment listings | Trini Apartments |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
🏥 Best hospital | West Shore Medical |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,904 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,791 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,964 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $847 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,345 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,819 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $559 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $63 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $92 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $217 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $13 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,705 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $23 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8429° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm |
Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8329° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | nice 36% | nice 36% | nice 37% | nice 36% | nice 38% | nice 38% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 38% | nice 38% | nice 38% | nice 38% |
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Rain | rainy 52mm | dry 35mm | dry 29mm | dry 32mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 147mm | rainy 112mm | rainy 122mm | rainy 119mm | rainy 95mm |
Cloud | pockets 33% | pockets 27% | pockets 33% | pockets 38% | pockets 34% | pockets 40% | pockets 39% | pockets 36% | pockets 30% | pockets 38% | pockets 37% | pockets 41% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 27✈️10h$5,005 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 21✈️10h$6,209 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°✈️11h$5,516 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 63😷✈️11h$3,728 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×I’m working remotely and since it’s war in Ukraine I was living in Istanbul for half of year, after moving to Dubai i realised it’s not much more expensive here in Dubai. And besides that no one is cheating me like it was happening non stop in Istanbul
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 66😷✈️12h$1,851 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 30✈️19h$2,919 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×A dystopian cyberpunk metropolis, a veritable Night City, both chaotic and well run, livable yet poisonous. Follow the classic advice: stay near the BTS, skyscraper condo, work from mall libraries, cafes, and commons, don’t be outside. Outsource your chores. On a western salary or with savings, you’ll be playing life on easy mode. Focus your energy on meeting people, honing your body, and learning new skills. There’s a reason it’s number 1. You can disagree, but try to find it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 39° 102° 34° 94°🥵AQI 67😷✈️22h$1,346 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×It's getting better. I came here just before the Chinese New Year, and the city was very lively. Lots of people, live music, etc. The decorations in the shopping mall were beautiful, and there were so many food options that it would take a year to try them all.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87°🥵AQI 68😷✈️23h$1,224 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°✈️24h$4,476 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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