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| ⭐️ Overall score | 250 reviews |
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| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Africa |
| 🚩 Country | South Africa |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 29 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 18°C 64°F + 😊 Comfy (81%) = feels 18°C 64°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 51 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 16 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Gardens |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Foreshore |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Cell C |
| 💸 100 ZAR in USD | USD 6.69 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | ZAR 1,000 = USD 67 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | 88mph |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Daddyo |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 13% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,370,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 26,256 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 430,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $5,105 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Takealot |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | GumTree |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Mango |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,726 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,254 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,596 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $742 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $635 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $134 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,084 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $51 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $1,973 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $65 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
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| Feels | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 6317° cool | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild |
| Real | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 6317° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6720° mild | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild |
| Humidity | nice 63% | nice 65% | nice 68% | nice 64% | nice 64% | nice 64% | nice 69% | nice 63% | nice 63% | nice 61% | nice 63% | nice 61% |
| Rain | dry 7mm | dry 7mm | dry 12mm | dry 14mm | dry 30mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 53mm | dry 19mm | dry 20mm | dry 27mm | dry 5mm | dry 13mm |
| Cloud | pockets 20% | clear 10% | pockets 37% | pockets 42% | cloudy 61% | pockets 43% | cloudy 53% | pockets 27% | pockets 30% | pockets 39% | pockets 36% | pockets 32% |
| Air quality | clean 19 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 11 US AQI | clean 13 US AQI | clean 12 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,580 people | 800 people | 644 people | 580 people | 520 people | 382 people | 260 people | 444 people | 520 people | 740 people | 831 people | 743 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 23✈️12h$3,979 / mo29MbpsEven if the city is kind of on the decline, it still is awesome. Perfect weather all year, amazing food, vibrant local & expat community.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°AQI 34✈️11h$3,105 / mo🌇 Also went here132 peoplePros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 53✈️12h$1,558 / mo🌇 Also went here117 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 53✈️12h$4,015 / mo🌇 Also went here149 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 62✈️13h$1,232 / mo🌇 Also went here134 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 24✈️13h$3,080 / mo🌇 Also went here156 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 42✈️13h$2,860 / mo🌇 Also went here122 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 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 25✈️13h$4,294 / mo🌇 Also went here182 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 24✈️13h$4,827 / mo🌇 Also went here169 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 2✈️13h$1,050 / mo🌇 Also went here110 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 68✈️14h$1,315 / mo🌇 Also went here178 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 84°🥵AQI 23✈️14h$977 / mo🌇 Also went here141 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 108😷✈️17h$5,111 / mo🌇 Also went here144 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 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 13✈️20h$3,779 / mo🌇 Also went here120 peopleI've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 28✈️22h$5,687 / mo🌇 Also went here125 people
