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| ⭐️ Total score | 133 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 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 | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | Canada |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 13 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 6°C 42°F + 😊 Comfy (69%) = feels 4°C 39°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 6 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 21 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Manchester Industrial |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Beltline |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 CAD in USD | USD 7.51 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CAD 100 = USD 75 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Assembly |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | AcceleratorYYC |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,200,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $42,154 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Best Buy |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | rRentfaster |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | West Jet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Canada |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,531 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,247 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,541 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,583 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,397 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,519 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,153 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $65 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $50 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $477 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $15 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,825 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,643 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $109,369 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Nomad List members didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 27-3° freezing | 14-10° freezing | 394° cold | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 489° cold | 373° cold | 12-11° freezing |
| Real | 30-1° freezing | 20-7° freezing | 415° very cold | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5010° cold | 405° very cold | 18-8° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 62% | nice 61% | nice 60% | nice 52% | nice 58% | nice 57% | nice 65% | nice 59% | nice 53% | nice 56% | nice 60% | nice 59% |
| Rain | dry 14mm | dry 26mm | dry 20mm | dry 28mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 59mm | rainy 64mm | dry 25mm | dry 30mm | dry 9mm | dry 18mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 51% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 51% | pockets 44% | cloudy 58% | pockets 30% | pockets 26% | pockets 42% | pockets 47% | pockets 49% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 77% |
| Air quality | clean 28 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 300 people | 233 people | 286 people | 286 people | 475 people | 500 people | 567 people | 517 people | 525 people | 450 people | 300 people | 500 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 1🚕4h$6,570 / mo34Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 5° 41° 8° 46°AQI 3✈️14min$4,062 / mo17MbpsCompared to other Canadian cities rent is affordable, but it's unfortunately such a depressive place to live, due to the harsh and long winters. You get about 2-3 months of fantastic weather, and between 5-8 months of absolutely oppressive cold. It has some decent local culture for its size, but a distinct lack of fun nightlife. Public transit is absolutely horrendous. People can be a bit close-minded. Quality of life is otherwise comparable to other big NA cities. Taxes are on the low side. It'
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 16✈️22min$5,162 / mo17Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 4° 39° 4° 39°AQI 35✈️23min$4,392 / mo27Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 35✈️28min$4,347 / mo29Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 4° 39° 5° 42°AQI 32✈️32min$4,545 / mo17Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 17✈️34min$4,332 / mo54Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 6✈️35min$3,488 / mo89Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 5° 41° 8° 46°AQI 10✈️35min$3,945 / mo38Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 22✈️36min$4,083 / mo55Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 23✈️37min$3,967 / mo33Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 9✈️41min$3,489 / mo34MbpsGreat for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 33✈️54min$3,945 / mo16Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 1🚕4h$6,570 / mo34MbpsVery expensive to live in. Boring, I don't mind the weather so much but I agree with previous reviews about people here having poor social skills and making friends with the locals is VERY hard. This has been confirmed by my other expat friends from US and Europe who lived here for a bit. People overall are very serious and in a group setting things like real estate and social justice/ equality are normally main topics of the conversation. Very little culture in terms of art, museums, history et
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -4° 25° 0° 31°AQI 14✈️4h$4,459 / mo19MbpsCompared to other Canadian cities rent is affordable, but it's unfortunately such a depressive place to live, due to the harsh and long winters. You get about 2-3 months of fantastic weather, and between 5-8 months of absolutely oppressive cold. It has some decent local culture for its size, but a distinct lack of fun nightlife. Public transit is absolutely horrendous. People can be a bit close-minded. Quality of life is otherwise comparable to other big NA cities. Taxes are on the low side. It'
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 16✈️22min$5,162 / mo17MbpsSeattle 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 42✈️57min$5,032 / mo98MbpsHow 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 5° 41° 6° 44°AQI 30✈️9h$5,155 / mo16MbpsTouristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 122😷✈️5h$2,812 / mo6MbpsHow 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).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 25✈️2h$7,169 / mo70MbpsSpent the month of September here and it was nice for the first 2 weeks. There are a lot of young people due to the multiple universities and you smell weed everywhere!!! There is also so much construction going on with the roads and buildings, so it’s best to walk and bike most places. The BIXI bike system is awesome! There are also a lot of homeless screaming at people randomly in the streets. Food and rent is expensive. The “European” vibe is isolated to a 3 street area, but the re
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -9° 16° -5° 23°AQI 18✈️4h$4,029 / mo16MbpsI live in Saskatoon. It's brutally cold in the winter--do not visit. That said, it's cheap and gorgeous in the summer (May to September). Temperatures usually are between 20 and 30 Celsius during the day, and the sky is almost always clear. The sunsets are gorgeous, and there is a riverbank corridor that runs through the city where you can walk for 20 kilometres along the river and never cross a street (it's called the Meewasin... If you like nature, you will want to book a place near it).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels -4° 25° 1° 33°AQI 12✈️42min$3,372 / mo17MbpsI don’t recommend living here full time. The summers are unbearably hot and humid and you have to drive 1+ hours to the closest beach. Actually, you have to drive everywhere because everything is a 20+ min drive. Traffic is terrible and everything is under construction. There are lots of bugs, mosquitos, gators, roaches, etc… You can be here for months and not do all the different entertainment, restaurants, experiences the Orlando area has to offer. Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, Legoland, Fu
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 18✈️5h$4,730 / mo47MbpsVery very touristy. Great if you want to go scubaing, terrible for all other reasons
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 52✈️4h$6,036 / mo12Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 1🚕4h$6,570 / mo🌇 Also went here54 peopleGreat for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 33✈️54min$3,945 / mo🌇 Also went here102 peopleHow 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).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 25✈️2h$7,169 / mo🌇 Also went here70 peopleI 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 67°AQI 30✈️3h$5,021 / mo🌇 Also went here60 peopleVery expensive to live in. Boring, I don't mind the weather so much but I agree with previous reviews about people here having poor social skills and making friends with the locals is VERY hard. This has been confirmed by my other expat friends from US and Europe who lived here for a bit. People overall are very serious and in a group setting things like real estate and social justice/ equality are normally main topics of the conversation. Very little culture in terms of art, museums, history et
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -4° 25° 0° 31°AQI 14✈️4h$4,459 / mo🌇 Also went here76 peopleSpent the month of September here and it was nice for the first 2 weeks. There are a lot of young people due to the multiple universities and you smell weed everywhere!!! There is also so much construction going on with the roads and buildings, so it’s best to walk and bike most places. The BIXI bike system is awesome! There are also a lot of homeless screaming at people randomly in the streets. Food and rent is expensive. The “European” vibe is isolated to a 3 street area, but the re
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -9° 16° -5° 23°AQI 18✈️4h$4,029 / mo🌇 Also went here72 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 5° 41° 7° 44°AQI 43✈️4h$6,186 / mo🌇 Also went here65 peopleI really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 59✈️5h$1,894 / mo🌇 Also went here46 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 5° 41° 6° 44°AQI 30✈️9h$5,155 / mo🌇 Also went here73 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 35✈️10h$6,159 / mo🌇 Also went here53 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 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 59✈️10h$5,674 / mo🌇 Also went here53 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° 54°AQI 2✈️10h$3,443 / mo🌇 Also went here53 peopleJust 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 6° 43° 7° 44°AQI 23✈️10h$4,410 / mo🌇 Also went here49 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 8° 46° 9° 49°AQI 50✈️11h$4,856 / mo🌇 Also went here61 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 30° 86°🥵AQI 174😷✈️16h$2,207 / mo🌇 Also went here54 people
