⭐️ Total score | 2.77/5 (Rank #907) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,126 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 30°C85°F (feels 39°C102°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 86% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 24 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Okay |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $560 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Good |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Dominican Republic |
⏱ Average trip length | 25 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 30°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 39°C 102°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 24 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 DOP in USD | USD 1.76 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | DOP 10,000 = USD 176 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cabarete Coffee Company |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | CocaCabarete |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 15,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $6,722 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 65% 👱♀️ 35% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | JetBlue |
🏥 Best hospital | Cabarete Medical Center |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,126 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,475 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,275 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $936 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,459 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,756 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $775 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $68 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $58 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $93 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $5,112 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $26 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $8 / trip |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 83% |
Rain | rainy 51mm | rainy 110mm | rainy 183mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 147mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 114mm | rainy 92mm | rainy 134mm |
Cloud | pockets 41% | pockets 29% | pockets 30% | pockets 33% | pockets 38% | cloudy 60% | pockets 45% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 57% | pockets 35% | pockets 37% |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 257 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 240 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 371 people |
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