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| ⭐️ Total score | 86 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food 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 | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Colombia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 14 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 76°F + 😊 Comfy (93%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 104 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 27 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10,000 COP in USD | USD 2.49 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | COP 1,000,000 = USD 249 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Cowork Cali |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Juan Valdez Café |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,806 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 79% 👱♀️ 21% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Falabella |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Copa Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Avianca |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,172 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $586 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,146 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $327 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $728 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $787 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $199 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $34 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $26 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $212 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,187 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $4 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $6 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Not much to do
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8228° warm | 8429° warm |
| Real | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7826° warm | 7926° warm |
| Humidity | nice 82% | nice 80% | nice 82% | nice 82% | nice 81% | nice 81% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 82% | nice 83% | nice 83% |
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| Rain | rainy 381mm | rainy 385mm | rainy 530mm | rainy 425mm | rainy 328mm | rainy 286mm | rainy 187mm | rainy 279mm | rainy 306mm | rainy 371mm | rainy 302mm | rainy 352mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 85% | cloudy 88% | overcast 93% | overcast 96% | overcast 90% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 79% | overcast 91% | overcast 91% | cloudy 88% |
| Air quality | clean 44 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 467 people | 400 people | 333 people | 200 people | 267 people | 480 people | 350 people | 250 people | 233 people | 300 people | 320 people | 300 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 69😷✈️4h$1,961 / mo50Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 64°AQI 61😷✈️21min$1,025 / mo13MbpsI've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 38✈️24min$1,126 / mo🌇 Also went here67 peopleThe stats are stats are super misleading and the reviews here as well. Locals are staring to recent digital nomads for the rise of housing prices and for it not paying taxes. It is really unfortunate, but I am let down by this city and the people. The only reason this city is popular is because all the single male wanting to go to parties and passport bros, if you are a female digital nomad you won’t feel any of this because most people that go there are male and are the ones causing the probl
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 38✈️1h$1,721 / mo🌇 Also went here56 peopleI give the city a 6.5/10. Pro: - Walkable - Good selection of accomodation in relatively cheap in popular places - Great weekend trips nearby like Huacachina and Canta - Peruvian food is great - Great internet Cons: - More expensive than other places in Latin America except lunch. - Service in bars is much slower here than Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. - A lot of honking with cars. - You can some times feel a bit limited to only Peruvian food and Chinese. It is a big cit
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 7✈️2h$1,298 / mo🌇 Also went here39 peopleNot my favourite place, but it has some positive qualities. If you want American comforts like Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club and live abroad, this is a good spot. You can also shop from both Amazon US and MX; there are many US/Canadian people here. It's a very comfortable place to be in many ways. For many people, it's a great first digital nomad spot as many things are catered to tourists, making it easier for nomads. There are a lot of great, cheap gyms for every activity you can think of. Th
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 29° 84°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$2,570 / mo🌇 Also went here42 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 21✈️3h$2,473 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleI stayed here for 6 months and I absolutely love Mexico City. The life is comfortable if you stay in the bubbles, namely Roma Norte, Condesa and Polanco, but the living cost has increased 30% since last year, due to the inflation and skyrocketing mexican pesos. Mexican people are so friendly and I never had any safety issues. Definitely will be back in the future.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 69😷✈️4h$1,961 / mo🌇 Also went here48 peopleNew York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 44✈️6h$7,576 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleBA is the safest city in the world, just after Tijuana and Caracas! But if you ask the local Porteños, they'll assure you Argentina is THE BEST around the globe, whatever the matter in discussion. :-D With all the slums, poverty and ignorant population, a true 3rd world country, made of rude people, they didn't need to be so ridiculously arrogant. 😅
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 31✈️6h$1,658 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleOnce you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 27✈️10h$3,340 / mo🌇 Also went here39 peopleLiked Madrid,but its a bit dangerous in the evening and way to expensive! people can be really nice when they meet you but after a while you realize all it's not what it seems. And Barcelona is exactly the same.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 25✈️11h$4,109 / mo🌇 Also went here38 peopleI find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️12h$6,042 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peoplePros: Weather is great and apartments are excellent. Cons: City is dirty including the beaches. Locals are extremely hostile, unfriendly and confrontational. There isn't a huge amount of good things to do in the city - most things are mediocre. People constantly bash into you in the street. Food and coffee is very average. Crime is awful - my apartment was broken into and my suitcase got stolen from the baggage belt at the airport. Air quality is terrible.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 53😷✈️12h$3,816 / mo🌇 Also went here42 peopleI have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 4° 38°AQI 73😷✈️12h$5,054 / mo🌇 Also went here45 peopleI absolutely love Istanbul! My biggest recommendation would be to stay in Cihangir or Nişantaşı and avoid the main centre. Cihangir has so many beautiful cafes to work from and there are a lot of people working remotely so it's a really nice vibe. I agree with the comments about taxis, we just caught ubers but mostly walked everywhere which I would recommend. If you stay in Cihangir you can easily walk to Taxim square and through Galata. The food scene here is great once you know where to go
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 14✈️15h$1,638 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people
