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| ⭐️ Total score | 15 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Turkey |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (78%) = feels 37°C 99°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 68 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 32.75 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | TurkCell |
| 💸 100 TRY in USD | USD 5.57 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TRY 10,000 = USD 557 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
| 💳 Cashless | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Caribou Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $10,863 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Hepsiburada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sahibinden |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | EasyJet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Doruk Bursa |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,005 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $422 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $191 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $54 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $28 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $13 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,543 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $72 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 144 listings) | $1,426 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $47 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $0 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $17,500 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $35,000 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $87,500 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Feels | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 5211° cool | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 6317° cool | 5915° cool |
| Real | 5513° cool | 5111° cool | 5211° cool | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 7625° warm | 6820° mild | 6217° cool | 5915° cool |
| Humidity | nice 66% | nice 67% | nice 68% | nice 67% | nice 62% | nice 69% | nice 63% | nice 58% | nice 64% | nice 66% | nice 65% | nice 64% |
| Rain | rainy 152mm | rainy 83mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 69mm | dry 24mm | dry 8mm | dry 25mm | dry 38mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 121mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 72% | pockets 49% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 66% | pockets 49% | pockets 31% | pockets 10% | clear 6% | pockets 36% | pockets 40% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 71% |
| Air quality | bad 138 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 11 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | bad 114 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 300 people | 300 people | 200 people | 300 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 34° 93° 34° 92°🥵AQI 61✈️2h$1,506 / mo10MbpsBeen in Belgrade for a month now. Belgrade is one of the worst cities for hospitality in general, including laundrettes, airbnb's and the general service industry. It is hard to do anything without getting the heaven or hell service experience. Trying to get a private office or private space in the shared work areas, has been a huge letdown with many being unavailable for months. The cafe's are not work friendly, as you have to deal with cigarette smoke and loud music, crowded spaces. A lot of b
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 64✈️1h$1,633 / mo24MbpsAs always take precautions when traveling. Turkish people are generally friendly and the cost of living can be very affordable for foreigners. That being said, the taxis are around Taksim and Old town can be a bit dodgy, especially if you don't speak Turkish or get in an "illegal" cab. To avoid this, download an app that calculates the fare for you (prices are fixed and determined by the city)and show this to the driver before entering the taxi. Like in most major tourist destinations, there w
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 32🚕3h$1,146 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleStayed here for 2 months, it was terrible—internet was slow, people were racist, blatant price gouging of foreigners, and my boyfriend was accosted in the street one night when a random group of brawling men were kicked out of a bar and they came out punching and kicking at anyone who had the misfortune of being in their way. We stayed in 2 different AirbnBs in the most central part of Izmir and both of them had spotty internet. In one of them, the water cut out several times despite being bi
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 34° 93° 34° 92°🥵AQI 61✈️2h$1,506 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 28° 82°🥵AQI 46✈️9h$935 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI've been to Bangkok for almost two weeks now and I can't understand comments about the lack of soul or everything being on sale. Sure, there are some sketchy parts like massage parlour touts and an occasional ladyboy here and there, but overall my impression is that it's just a regular big city with some clear advantages. Coming from Central Europe, I find everybody to be very calm and polite. Some may argue it's just a facade and fair enough, but I prefer a calm and kind facade over cold and i
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 32° 89°🥵AQI 38✈️10h$1,278 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleAmazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87°🥵AQI 25✈️10h$1,220 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleSiem Riep has a nice suburb feeling. At first sight it seems there's not much to do besides Angkor Wat and Pub Street, but you can go swimming, do bicycle tours, floating village day trip... I don't have best social skill, but in Siem Reap it was so easy to make new friends. Locals and tourists! I've worked at Garage Society Coworking Space. Pretty nice place. I don't understand the cons of slow internet. I've bought an LTE 4G Sim card for 10 USD with 10 GB. There's also free and mostly fast
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 89°🥵AQI 34✈️10h$1,332 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleThe noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 31° 87°🥵AQI 65✈️11h$1,027 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 37✈️11h$5,323 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 85°🥵AQI 57✈️11h$1,317 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 13✈️12h$4,016 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 90😷✈️14h$1,383 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
