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| ⭐️ Total score | 237 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| ❤️ Liked by members | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 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 | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 31°C 88°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75%) = feels 39°C 102°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 65 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 101 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.49 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 149 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Nu Cafe |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Dou Dou Cafe |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Aoting Garden Hotel |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,740,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 33,347 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 16,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 13x13m (169m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Wimdu |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | ParkwayHealth China |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,002 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $823 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,740 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $497 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $463 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $91 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $448 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $21 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 1,001 listings) | $1,278 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 489° cold | 6317° cool | 6619° mild | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 9032° hot | 10038° hot | 9334° hot | 8429° warm | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 5412° cool |
| Real | 489° cold | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7926° warm | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 5412° cool |
| Humidity | nice 68% | nice 66% | nice 70% | nice 77% | nice 73% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 94% | sweaty 92% | nice 85% | nice 84% | damp 72% | nice 68% |
| Rain | dry 12mm | dry 11mm | dry 33mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 51mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 296mm | rainy 199mm | rainy 136mm | rainy 88mm | dry 19mm | dry 16mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 74% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 87% | overcast 97% | overcast 94% | overcast 91% | cloudy 73% | overcast 93% | cloudy 81% | overcast 98% | overcast 91% | cloudy 82% |
| Air quality | bad 167 US AQI | bad 158 US AQI | bad 145 US AQI | bad 130 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | okay 89 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 142 US AQI | bad 160 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
| Remote workers | 400 people | 333 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 250 people | 400 people | 280 people | 250 people | 400 people | 400 people | 200 people |
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I lived in Chongqing for about 5 years. I mostly love this place but it's not easy for Westerners unless you can speak some Chinese. But with a smartphone you can translate anything you need to say. Chongqing is beautiful, gritty and romantic. Extremely inexpensive and lots of things to do. Beautiful women. Maybe the most unique city in China. Weather terrible in winter and summer. Winter is foggy, rainy and low light while summers are uncomfortably hot and humid. They don't speak standard Manda
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 47° 117° 34° 94°🥵AQI 71✈️22min$2,087 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 35✈️34min$1,306 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°🥵AQI 31✈️41min$1,017 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 61✈️48min$1,712 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 37° 99°🥵AQI 88😷✈️49min$758 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️51min$1,529 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 49° 120° 34° 93°🥵AQI 72✈️55min$1,109 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 42✈️56min$1,289 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 51° 124° 35° 95°🥵AQI 50✈️1h$1,092 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 51° 124° 35° 96°🥵AQI 72✈️1h$572 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 31° 89°🥵AQI 55✈️1h$1,259 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87°🥵AQI 63✈️1h$1,469 / moShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 78😷✈️2h$1,858 / mo1MbpsI lived in Chongqing for about 5 years. I mostly love this place but it's not easy for Westerners unless you can speak some Chinese. But with a smartphone you can translate anything you need to say. Chongqing is beautiful, gritty and romantic. Extremely inexpensive and lots of things to do. Beautiful women. Maybe the most unique city in China. Weather terrible in winter and summer. Winter is foggy, rainy and low light while summers are uncomfortably hot and humid. They don't speak standard Manda
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 47° 117° 34° 94°🥵AQI 71✈️22min$2,087 / mo1MbpsDefinitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 39° 102°🥵AQI 130😷✈️2h$2,581 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 30✈️2h$1,498 / moLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 13✈️4h$3,769 / mo102MbpsVery good, Glorious leader Kim Jong-Un helped me see the true beauty of TRUE KOREA.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 72✈️3h$1,891 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 80°AQI 99😷✈️2h$1,605 / mo1MbpsI cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 46✈️3h$1,262 / mo26Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️51min$1,529 / moI think the reviews here a bit overly negative. It's true it's a city with a not of nightlife or activity, but that's not why people move to Vancouver. You move to Vancouver if you want a relaxed lifestyle with beautiful nature and access to the outdoors, fresh air, and a good climate (by Canadian standards), without having to give up on the comforts of a city-lifestyle. While it's expensive, you mostly get quality. My rental is not that much more expensive than I paid in many european cities,
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 9✈️13h$4,849 / mo16MbpsI'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 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 29✈️16h$5,771 / mo34MbpsI spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°AQI 63✈️15h$4,830 / mo66MbpsI do not like Hanoi. I would not recommend it. I would rather go to Mexico city (cleaner and easier to get around). The driving situation is bizarre and scary. Gab app only works with cash, and honestly, most things only work with cash. The streets are dirty and disorganized. People barely speak English here (I found more english speakers in Da Nang, Vietnam). I tried to stay in Truc Bach and it was so dirty and loud that i left to West lake (which is supposed to be one of the nice area). It is
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 47° 117° 33° 91°🥵AQI 1✈️1h$951 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 29✈️2h$2,401 / mo🌇 Also went here30 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 21✈️2h$943 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleDefinitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 39° 102°🥵AQI 130😷✈️2h$2,581 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 78😷✈️2h$1,858 / mo🌇 Also went here34 peopleDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 30✈️2h$2,081 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleI cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 46✈️3h$1,262 / mo🌇 Also went here33 peopleBeen living here for more than 3 years. Overall I do not recommend it. Its not terrible but overall theres better options in asia. The city is constantly busy, noisy and polluted (air and landscapes). You can hardly go out for breeze of fresh air or to relax and ease your mind. There is not much nature, beach or mountains for you to escape. Traveling is very restriced because people go crazy due to covid. During the lockdown you couldnt even leave your appartment for a walk outside. They trapp
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$976 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleI've been living for a year in Itaewon-dong, Seoul back in 2015 when i was 22 years old. It was one of the best year of my life, i made lifelong friends overthere. Great culture, great food, great people. The cons : no beach, ultra-capitalist environment, big city life downside (transportation, prices etc...)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 68✈️3h$2,108 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 45✈️4h$1,294 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 13✈️4h$3,769 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleLived 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 21✈️11h$4,499 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 19° 66° 19° 65°AQI 16✈️11h$5,108 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleGood: - Great local food - Portuguese people are amazingly friendly - Vibrant DN community. It's like the city has been overtaken by remote workers. You will see everyone working on their laptop everywhere you go. - Amazing views whenever you want; you can just get a beer and climb to one of the viewpoints to see the sunset. Easy and magical. - Super cheap Ubers, easy subway Bad: - Housing prices. I'm not kidding, it's the worst I've ever seen. Ultra overpriced. I guess that's the problem when
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 26✈️13h$2,308 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 29✈️16h$5,771 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
