⭐️ Total score | 2.6/5 (Rank #801) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,207 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 79Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 13°C56°F (feels 13°C55°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 62% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 23 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 38 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Good |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 79 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 13°C 56°F + 😊 Comfy (62%) = feels 13°C 55°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 23 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 38.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Society of Work |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 180,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Delta |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Delta |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,207 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,139 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,417 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,262 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,354 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,750 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $885 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $204 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $90 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $280 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $11 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ 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
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 489° cold | 489° cold | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 8429° warm | 7323° mild | 5714° cool | 6317° cool |
Real | 489° cold | 489° cold | 6317° cool | 6720° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 5614° cool | 6116° cool |
Humidity | damp 76% | damp 74% | nice 65% | nice 61% | nice 65% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 81% | nice 79% | nice 84% | nice 70% | damp 79% |
Rain | rainy 83mm | rainy 153mm | rainy 223mm | rainy 110mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 118mm | rainy 162mm | rainy 162mm | rainy 206mm | rainy 117mm | dry 25mm | rainy 96mm |
Cloud | cloudy 62% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 58% | pockets 40% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 61% | pockets 48% | pockets 35% | cloudy 53% | pockets 32% | cloudy 59% |
Air quality | clean 29 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 280 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 400 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 27✈️1h$5,457 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×Very 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels -2° 28° 1° 33°AQI 50✈️1h$4,414 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 32✈️2h$7,460 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×All in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 9✈️2h$4,816 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people×Overall, a pretty great place. Good restaurants and many breweries. Solid entertainment. It has all four seasons and lots of sunshine. Some homelessness issues downtown, like most cities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌫 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27°AQI 34✈️2h$4,850 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×I 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 53✈️3h$1,860 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×Las Vegas is a great tourist destination for me personally. The strip contains every amenities that I need and also there is a lot of stuff to do there without going away from the strip. Las Vegas is inside of a desert so expect it to be really hot in the summer. Otherwise than that, the strip located in Vegas has many things to do, from going to concerts, fancy restaurants, gambling (if that's your thing), attractions (stratosphere, high roller), entertainments, and so many more things to do th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 33✈️4h$6,442 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 61✈️9h$5,351 / mo🌇 Also went here13 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.
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