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| ⭐️ Total score | 101 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Spain |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 27 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 9°C 48°F + 💦 Damp (88%) = feels 9°C 48°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 21 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 48.5 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 109 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Co.lab |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Bilbao Lab Coworking |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 350,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $26,695 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 92% 👱♀️ 8% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | easyjet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Iberia |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,489 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,753 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,367 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,533 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,788 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,645 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,034 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $84 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $87 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $382 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $24 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $11,365 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $33,727 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $110,442 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Feels | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 5513° cool | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 5714° cool |
| Real | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 5714° cool |
| Humidity | damp 84% | damp 74% | damp 79% | damp 72% | damp 80% | nice 83% | nice 83% | nice 82% | nice 83% | nice 79% | damp 86% | damp 79% |
| Rain | rainy 144mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 66mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 115mm | dry 23mm | dry 20mm | rainy 91mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 319mm | rainy 235mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 80% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 72% |
| Air quality | clean 42 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 550 people | 429 people | 425 people | 480 people | 429 people | 489 people | 450 people | 514 people | 444 people | 575 people | 286 people | 625 people |
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Cool city if you want to practice surfing and eat some basque food. The weather is cool (maybe a little rainy), warm and not too hot. The only downside is the housing price :/
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 61🚕3h$6,042 / mo25Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 6° 42°AQI 20🚕4h$3,596 / mo27Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 59🚕4h$4,377 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 156😷✈️21min$4,826 / mo24MbpsJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 25✈️26min$4,624 / mo21MbpsHonestly, was a bit dissapointed about the number of things that you cannot do there or do in the small old part of it. Seems quite juvenile + lots of students and it is the main factory of AIRBUS planes.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 6° 43°AQI 40✈️28min$3,275 / mo24MbpsGreat place to set up your business/residency as the tax is 10x lower than in Spain. Apart from that, Andorra is a ski/mountain town. There are also some great spas & thermal baths. In the past years, a lot of rich DNs moved there from Spain to establish residence and take advantage of the tax breaks. It's a bit on the expensive side, I'd recommend it if you want to escape Barcelona for a few days. In COVID times, there were almost no cases or restrictions.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 4° 39° 5° 40°AQI 14✈️30min$5,475 / mo158MbpsGreat small city on the beach! A few weeks in late summer were lovely, not too hot or rainy. Great food and drink, super cheap, with a beautiful old city and a roman lighthouse! Connectivity was good and people were friendly
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 30✈️35min$3,141 / mo21MbpsI live in Nantes and i'll say that it's mostly lgbt friendly in the city center even though it's really hard to navigate public spaces at times when you're a Trans person!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 68✈️36min$3,627 / mo24MbpsNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 14✈️38min$5,409 / mo21MbpsI went to Valencia for a week and I will never go there again. As a black person, the racism there could be felt in my bones. On top of this, it was extremely boring. I went in November, so maybe this is why it was boring. However, the architecture of the city is old and did not inspire me. First place I visited where I was ready to leave after 3 days.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 53✈️38min$4,505 / mo21MbpsWas there for one month. Beautiful place, but not a lot to do. We were happy to leave.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 29✈️39min$2,044 / mo28MbpsJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 25✈️26min$4,624 / mo21MbpsFor a European capital, there's not much to do. It's extremely overpriced for what it offers. Did not find the locals nearly as friendly as sources say. Food is very meh. Grocery stores are disorganized and everything close to expiry. You will have to beg and compete to find a dump of an apartment for under $2,000 euro/month. Maybe quality of life is better in the suburbs, but the city centre and surrounding area is not an attractive place to live. Overall, just avoid. For a similar price, you
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 18✈️2h$6,245 / mo47MbpsNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 14✈️38min$5,409 / mo21MbpsCool city if you want to practice surfing and eat some basque food. The weather is cool (maybe a little rainy), warm and not too hot. The only downside is the housing price :/
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 61🚕3h$6,042 / mo25MbpsMálaga is great. I don't agree on the comment that says it is not used to digital nomads, the person hasn't made a proper research. There are a lot of hostels, amazing night life, people are very cool and respectful, young people know English, and it has lots of COWORKING areas, even in banks. But not all of this is only in the center of the city, you need to discover also Costa del Sol, with places like Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Marbella, where is full of digital nomads that come the area b
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 30✈️59min$3,746 / mo21MbpsPorto was like a scaled down Lisbon (I swear they are trying to copy it down to the cable car). Lots to do but manageable walking wise. I walked everywhere and always found stuff to do. Bars and clubs are focused in one main area so everything is just easier. The architecture is wonderful and the people are nice. I'd like to see the city in summer as it's just on the wrong side of comfortable and it rained quite a bit (I was there in December). Dog poo is seemingly an issue generally in Portugal
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 102😷✈️42min$3,170 / mo28MbpsHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 47°AQI 50✈️1h$5,333 / mo16MbpsI went to Valencia for a week and I will never go there again. As a black person, the racism there could be felt in my bones. On top of this, it was extremely boring. I went in November, so maybe this is why it was boring. However, the architecture of the city is old and did not inspire me. First place I visited where I was ready to leave after 3 days.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 53✈️38min$4,505 / mo21MbpsI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 26✈️2h$3,901 / mo51MbpsAmazing city for a week or two. Really beautiful and tons to do. Loved walking around the streets when I wasn't working!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 35✈️56min$3,374 / mo21MbpsAmazing place. Great weather . Great internet. Amazing beaches. After living in 30 countris now this place is my top1. And companies only pay 4% taxes if you have 3 employees.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 31✈️3h$1,913 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 156😷✈️21min$4,826 / mo24MbpsJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 25✈️26min$4,624 / mo🌇 Also went here162 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 14✈️38min$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here125 peopleI went to Valencia for a week and I will never go there again. As a black person, the racism there could be felt in my bones. On top of this, it was extremely boring. I went in November, so maybe this is why it was boring. However, the architecture of the city is old and did not inspire me. First place I visited where I was ready to leave after 3 days.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 53✈️38min$4,505 / mo🌇 Also went here85 peoplePorto was like a scaled down Lisbon (I swear they are trying to copy it down to the cable car). Lots to do but manageable walking wise. I walked everywhere and always found stuff to do. Bars and clubs are focused in one main area so everything is just easier. The architecture is wonderful and the people are nice. I'd like to see the city in summer as it's just on the wrong side of comfortable and it rained quite a bit (I was there in December). Dog poo is seemingly an issue generally in Portugal
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 102😷✈️42min$3,170 / mo🌇 Also went here93 peopleThis guide is UTTERLY WRONG. $3.300 per month!? You can rent a room as cheap as 200€ (erasmus rooms), 1beer costs usually under 2€ and has a free 'Tapa' - normally when I go out, with 5€ I've eaten and drank enough. Coworkings cost somewhere from 70-120€ depending if part time or full time. Then you can go almost anywhere around walking, and by bus to the mountains. Compared to Berlin, the Internet is much faster and cheaper. Simyo has 20€ prepaid cards that give you 60GB data x month.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 44✈️54min$3,552 / mo🌇 Also went here73 peopleAmazing city for a week or two. Really beautiful and tons to do. Loved walking around the streets when I wasn't working!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 35✈️56min$3,374 / mo🌇 Also went here74 peopleI'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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 3✈️58min$3,437 / mo🌇 Also went here102 peopleMálaga is great. I don't agree on the comment that says it is not used to digital nomads, the person hasn't made a proper research. There are a lot of hostels, amazing night life, people are very cool and respectful, young people know English, and it has lots of COWORKING areas, even in banks. But not all of this is only in the center of the city, you need to discover also Costa del Sol, with places like Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Marbella, where is full of digital nomads that come the area b
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 30✈️59min$3,746 / mo🌇 Also went here110 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 63✈️59min$5,429 / mo🌇 Also went here134 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 47°AQI 50✈️1h$5,333 / mo🌇 Also went here137 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 26✈️2h$3,901 / mo🌇 Also went here144 peopleExtremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 59✈️2h$4,886 / mo🌇 Also went here110 peopleThe best airbnb of my life and very cheap, at night I ended up in a brothel by accident, magical nights in Bratislava
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 57✈️2h$2,575 / mo🌇 Also went here75 peopleAmazing place. Great weather . Great internet. Amazing beaches. After living in 30 countris now this place is my top1. And companies only pay 4% taxes if you have 3 employees.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 31✈️3h$1,913 / mo🌇 Also went here77 peopleI am a Greek living abroad just the last couple of years. I accidentally discovered this page and noticed the comments below. What I can recommend to people considering living in Athens is to explore places a bit outside of the city center. I agree with people that there are many areas very close to the city center that are dirty and perhaps not very safe to walk around at night. Explore areas like Glyfada, Voula, Kifisia, Marousi, Psychiko, Marousi and you will be amazed with how different it i
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 10° 50° 10° 49°AQI 63✈️3h$3,845 / mo🌇 Also went here105 people
