⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1311) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,860 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 11Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Freezing : -6°C22°F (feels -10°C14°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 82% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 13 US AQI |
👌 Safety | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Russia |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 -6°C 22°F + 💦 Damp (82%) = feels -10°C 14°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 13 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.44 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 144 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Coffeeshop Company |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 40% 👱♀️ 60% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Avito |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Aeroflot |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
🏥 Best hospital | Dorozhnaya Klinicheskaya |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,860 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,161 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,842 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $812 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $806 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $717 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $580 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $38 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $23 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $200 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $9 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,000 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $6,000 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $15,000 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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Feels | -9-23° freezing | -8-22° freezing | 21-6° freezing | 5010° cold | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° warm | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 21-6° freezing | 14-10° freezing |
Real | 1-17° freezing | 3-16° freezing | 27-3° freezing | 5211° cool | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8127° warm | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 28-3° freezing | 21-6° freezing |
Humidity | damp 75% | damp 73% | damp 81% | nice 58% | nice 41% | nice 53% | nice 62% | nice 51% | nice 62% | damp 71% | damp 79% | damp 80% |
Rain | dry 33mm | dry 28mm | dry 28mm | dry 14mm | dry 13mm | dry 38mm | rainy 55mm | dry 8mm | dry 16mm | dry 30mm | dry 15mm | dry 27mm |
Cloud | cloudy 88% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 62% | pockets 39% | pockets 49% | cloudy 55% | pockets 48% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 74% |
Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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