⭐️ Total score | 2.52/5 (Rank #928) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $6,733 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 11Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 23°C74°F (feels 23°C73°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 89% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 6 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 59 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Very high |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,506 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Australia |
⏱ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 23°C 74°F + 😊 Comfy (89%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 6 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 59 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Fadden |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Symonston |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 7.05 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AUD 100 = USD 71 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Harvest Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $54,069 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 95% 👱♀️ 5% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Kogan |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Virgin Australia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qantas |
🏥 Best hospital | Canberra Private Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $6,733 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $4,427 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $9,544 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $2,727 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,077 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,117 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,287 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $144 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $102 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $346 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $41 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $9,580 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $27,512 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $91,425 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ 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
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6820° mild | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold | 5412° cool | 5714° cool | 5915° cool | 6619° mild | 7222° mild |
Real | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 6619° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold | 5412° cool | 5714° cool | 5915° cool | 6519° mild | 7222° mild |
Humidity | nice 60% | nice 70% | nice 73% | damp 71% | damp 78% | damp 81% | damp 81% | damp 78% | damp 73% | damp 74% | nice 77% | nice 70% |
Rain | rainy 68mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 130mm | dry 4mm | dry 43mm | rainy 105mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 78mm | dry 49mm | rainy 178mm | rainy 107mm |
Cloud | pockets 41% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 59% | pockets 34% | pockets 46% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 55% | pockets 42% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 69% |
Air quality | bad 135 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | okay 59* US AQI | okay 59* US AQI | bad 141 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
Remote workers | 250 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 333 people |
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Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️20min$5,862 / mo11Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 30✈️37min$5,303 / mo11Mbps×My partner and I lived in Gold Coast for 6 months during the coronavirus pandemic. Its a very expensive place to live and its hard to find optimal housing. There are many Austrialians looking to live here so its has a growing housing market, we experienced a rental rate increase during our stay. This seems to be a lively city with many visitors and fun amusement parks, clubs, and nice shopping centers. But for us the main value was its proximity to a world class beach. This is THE nicest city
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 24✈️1h$6,016 / mo11Mbps×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84°🥵AQI 21✈️1h$5,350 / mo14Mbps×Always on the Top Livable Cities List, but it really should be in the Top Boring Cities List. It's like a big town, and it's kind of stuck in the past. You really feel like you are in the South. Plenty of old people & Asian students. Normal - everyone moves to Sydney or Melbourne which are incredibly more fun and exciting.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 25✈️1h$5,207 / mo11Mbps×2 years ago I chose to go Wanaka to see what it was like as it was recommended to me by my Kiwi friend who lives in Auckland. I looked at it on google maps and saw it was really small and thought it was boring so I booked a 3 day trip here. Oh my how wrong was I?! 3 days was not enough to do what’s here at all. I went skiing, checked out the town center and so much more! I was so hooked with this place and did not want to leave! I sadly had to. I am in love with this place and will definitely
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 15✈️3h$7,789 / mo20Mbps×I was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 85°🥵AQI 22✈️3h$4,791 / mo15Mbps×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️20min$5,862 / mo11Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 30✈️37min$5,303 / mo11Mbps×Sri Lanka is a great country to visit and explore on vacation, but it is not good for nomading. The internet is the worst I've experienced in 3 years of travelling around SE Asia. Usually I would supplement terrible wifi with mobile data but I found this also terrible. I visited several places in Sri Lanka, including supposedly up-and-coming nomad destination Welligama. There are very few cafes that are fit for working (almost none with AC/power), Western food is expensive (and so is Sri Lankan
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 41✈️11h$1,357 / mo7Mbps×A 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 30° 85°🥵AQI 8✈️4h$4,006 / mo11Mbps×I was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️20min$5,862 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 30✈️37min$5,303 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×Not gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 38✈️8h$5,435 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×Bangkok 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 !
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 30° 86°🥵AQI 180😷✈️10h$2,187 / mo🌇 Also went here19 people×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 5✈️11h$4,708 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people×I really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 109😷✈️11h$1,361 / mo🌇 Also went here13 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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 23✈️16h$6,903 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌫 Feels 3° 37° 5° 40°AQI 78😷✈️21h$2,328 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×Extremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 1° 34° 5° 41°AQI 30✈️21h$4,892 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 4° 39° 6° 42°AQI 26✈️21h$3,906 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×A 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 5° 41° 8° 47°AQI 28✈️22h$6,548 / mo🌇 Also went here16 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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 500😷✈️23h$5,435 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 38✈️23h$5,319 / mo🌇 Also went here17 people×For a European capital, there's not much to do. It's extremely overpriced for what it offers. Did not find the locals nearly as friendly as sources say. Food is very meh. Grocery stores are disorganized and everything close to expiry. You will have to beg and compete to find a dump of an apartment for under $2,000 euro/month. Maybe quality of life is better in the suburbs, but the city centre and surrounding area is not an attractive place to live. Overall, just avoid. For a similar price, you
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 5° 41° 8° 47°AQI 28✈️23h$6,252 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×