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| ⭐️ Total score | 33 reviews |
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| 😝 Fun | |
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| 👌 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 | Oceania |
| 🚩 Country | Australia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 23 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 25°C 78°F + 😊 Comfy (46%) = feels 25°C 77°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 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 |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 6.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AUD 100 = USD 66 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Harvest Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 400,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $54,069 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 91% 👱♀️ 9% |
| 🏞 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 | $5,798 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,406 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $7,784 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $2,224 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,478 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,590 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,819 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $210 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $85 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $322 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $26 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $7 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $14,893 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $50 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $6 / trip |
| 💰 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
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ 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% |
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| 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 | 240 people | 229 people | 0 people | 0 people | 400 people | 200 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 333 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 47✈️15min$4,596 / mo25MbpsAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️20min$4,517 / mo85MbpsMelbourne 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️37min$3,582 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 4✈️1h$6,447 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 9✈️1h$4,150 / mo23Mbpsi lived here during the plandemic for 3 months, it's like living in a big city, traffic is hectic. plenty of bars if you like that thing, and restaurants. Nice beach
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 19✈️1h$5,887 / mo23MbpsBrisbane 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 20✈️1h$3,885 / mo23MbpsAlways 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 54😷✈️1h$4,822 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 29✈️3h$5,362 / mo36Mbps2 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 29✈️3h$7,825 / mo28MbpsI 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 23✈️3h$3,141 / mo25Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 29✈️3h$5,065 / mo30MbpsAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️20min$4,517 / mo85MbpsMelbourne 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️37min$3,582 / mo23MbpsI have to disagree with some of the scores: there is NO freedom of speech when it comes to the Royal Family, government or Islam. Anyone who speaks in a derogatory way about the government, royal family or Islam will be deported (or jailed if they are Bruneian). There is NO freedom of the press either. Downtown Bandar is walkable if you don't mind the heat, but a car is 100% a necessity living in Brunei. There is a small bus service that runs at apparently random times, but no other public
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 10✈️8h$1,543 / mo14MbpsI 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 23✈️3h$3,141 / mo25MbpsFilled with rude provincial locals. Hard to fit in here and make friends. Extremely cliquey culture.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 5✈️4h$4,311 / mo23MbpsI 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 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42°AQI 17✈️23h$5,988 / mo28MbpsI recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️22h$5,567 / mo90Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 25✈️11h$3,002 / mo56Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°✈️5h$4,558 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 47✈️15min$4,596 / mo25MbpsA walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 38✈️11h$1,166 / mo11MbpsAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 18✈️20min$4,517 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peopleMelbourne 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 52😷✈️37min$3,582 / mo🌇 Also went here26 peopleBrisbane 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 20✈️1h$3,885 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleSo… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 55😷✈️8h$4,028 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 118😷✈️10h$2,869 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleGreat for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 32° 89°🥵AQI 103😷✈️10h$1,414 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 25✈️11h$3,002 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleTokyo 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 9✈️11h$2,985 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleChiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 59😷✈️11h$1,022 / mo🌇 Also went here18 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 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 34✈️16h$5,653 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleVienna is a great place to visit but do not DN here. The internet is either awful of non-existent—even in coffee shops.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -6° 21° -2° 29°AQI 42✈️21h$4,707 / mo🌇 Also went here17 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -4° 25° -1° 30°AQI 89😷✈️21h$3,879 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleI recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️22h$5,567 / mo🌇 Also went here21 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 5° 41° 8° 46°AQI 28✈️23h$5,014 / mo🌇 Also went here19 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 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 42°AQI 17✈️23h$5,988 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people
