⭐️ Total score | 3.12/5 (Rank #572) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,010 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 87% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 30 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 129 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $484 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Colombia |
⏱ Average trip length | 30 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (87%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 129 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Claro |
💸 10,000 COP in USD | USD 2.44 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | COP 1,000,000 = USD 244 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,806 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Falabella |
🏠 Apartment listings | Encuantra24 |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Copa Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Avianca |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,010 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $462 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,138 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $325 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $222 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $85 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,238 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $58 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 343 listings) | $563 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $18 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Real | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 71% | nice 79% | nice 84% | nice 85% | nice 88% | nice 86% | nice 78% | nice 87% | nice 85% | nice 87% | nice 86% | nice 83% |
Rain | rainy 157mm | rainy 354mm | rainy 455mm | rainy 531mm | rainy 522mm | rainy 544mm | rainy 446mm | rainy 598mm | rainy 494mm | rainy 605mm | rainy 445mm | rainy 430mm |
Cloud | cloudy 61% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 76% |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
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Lived here for about 3 months as a female. The climate is amazing as it is the City of Eternal Spring. Very reasonable prices everywhere. I stayed in Poblado, but about a 25 minute walk from all the action of Poblado. Walking on the main roads during the day was fine. The local people are amazingly nice. However, once night falls, you have to be careful here. Do not walk on quiet streets. Leave your valuables at home and do not ever show your mobile phone outside on the street. Use an Uber at ni
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 78😷✈️23min$1,058 / mo5Mbps×Strongly agree that this is an underrated city! If you want to buckle down and get some work done, it's a great place to be. Folks here are a bit more serious and business minded, and it comes with generally good internet and functioning services around the city. There are a number of cool coliving buildings that make life really fun. I stayed in one called Plura Coliving for about $700/month. You get a private room/bathroom + gym, spa, bar, restaurant, laundry, coworking, rec rooms, etc. all bu
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 15° 59°AQI 18✈️24min$1,021 / mo6Mbps×I mostly don't like it here. Possibly I am too used to USA or have not traveled enough. PRO: It is beautiful, with great natural resources, inexpensive rates & lots of activities to do. There are carriage rides & snorkling, beach events, etc. Lots & lots of great places for brunch or dinner & drinks. CONS: There's a strong cultural, economic & racial divide here. The locals see the tourist as distinctly different from them. It's hard to find any locals to have a conversation & just tre
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87°🥵AQI 30✈️36min$1,597 / mo5Mbps×I have worked remotely from Minca for the last 4 years and can attest that there are a few good spots with a reliable internet connection! The place is a paradise to work from, as the natural beauty of the mountain inspires, relaxes, and connects! I would suggest searching on AirBnB for houses with good WiFi or check the local ex-pat in santa marta page for tips!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 30✈️36min$1,352 / mo13Mbps×Cali has beautiful weather and kind, friendly people. You will need to use Spanish here so it is a great place to learn. Locals are very patient with novice speakers. The city has many green spaces and weekend travel to the Pacific region and Coffee country is possible as well as inexpensive flights to other major cities in Colombia. Salsa is king here so it is worth taking lessons, as this is a major part of the city's nightlife. You can live quite cheaply here but expect foreign or imported fo
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°🥵AQI 89😷✈️45min$919 / mo6Mbps×Great island. Lived there for 20 years before I start traveling around. Don't forget it's expensive. All is imported, nothing grows there. And one other thing: you need a car. Public transport is bad and all locals have cars.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 91😷✈️6h$1,386 / mo6Mbps×I mostly don't like it here. Possibly I am too used to USA or have not traveled enough. PRO: It is beautiful, with great natural resources, inexpensive rates & lots of activities to do. There are carriage rides & snorkling, beach events, etc. Lots & lots of great places for brunch or dinner & drinks. CONS: There's a strong cultural, economic & racial divide here. The locals see the tourist as distinctly different from them. It's hard to find any locals to have a conversation & just tre
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87°🥵AQI 30✈️36min$1,597 / mo5Mbps×Lived here for about 3 months as a female. The climate is amazing as it is the City of Eternal Spring. Very reasonable prices everywhere. I stayed in Poblado, but about a 25 minute walk from all the action of Poblado. Walking on the main roads during the day was fine. The local people are amazingly nice. However, once night falls, you have to be careful here. Do not walk on quiet streets. Leave your valuables at home and do not ever show your mobile phone outside on the street. Use an Uber at ni
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 35✈️5h$5,771 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×I live here and I would like to comment on some things that might be different from what you expect: - Walkability: Definitely not great, the city is huge, there are neighborhood where is safe to walk, with interesting stuff to do, but this isn't the case on most places far from west zone (Pinheiros and Vila Madalena) and Paulista avenue. Expect to use public transportation (subway and buses) and uber a lot. - LGBTQ+: Sao Paulo is the state with most homicides against trans people in the whol
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 91😷✈️6h$1,386 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×Was here for January 2022. It was very nice. It's a very European city with South American vibes. Due to high inflation, it's cheap. The steak is the best I've ever eaten. Go to AreaTres for coworking. Bring cash (EUR or USD) in large bills. Otherwise, you'll have to pay by card and get the official exchange rate, which is 50% of what you get on the black ("blue") market. There are many places to exchange cash. As an alternative to cash, I've also heard that people like to send themselves money
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 30✈️7h$857 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×Everything (and everyone haha) seems to be old. Not a kind of place to have fun and enjoy. Food is great, but pricey — you can find the same or even better for a cheaper price in Buenos Aires. Legalization of marijuana isn’t something good to celebrate in my opinion and just created a weird environment. There are better places to go.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 30✈️7h$2,368 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 31° 88° 29° 85°AQI 60✈️7h$4,830 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 46✈️8h$6,986 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 21✈️9h$4,858 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×Lived 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 56✈️11h$4,499 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×A great place to be. Excellent price/quality ratio. You can easily find everything needed to work: coworking, sim (you can eg use Airalo). There is a plenty of things to do in the city and around it. Food is dirt cheap and delicious. It can be trashy and sometimes touristy but that didn't cause problems for me.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 3✈️14h$1,204 / mo🌇 Also went here3 people×I cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 57✈️24h$976 / mo🌇 Also went here3 people×