⭐️ Total score | 2.65/5 (Rank #1249) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,177 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 25°C77°F (feels 25°C77°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 79% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 46 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $108 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | North Korea |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 25°C 77°F + 😊 Comfy (79%) = feels 25°C 77°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 46 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz50Hz |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Koryolink |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 610,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,300 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Korea DPR |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Koryo |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Koryo |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,177 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $611 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,510 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $431 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $150 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $360 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,378 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $65 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 23-5° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 415° cold | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 6116° cool | 457° cold | 30-1° freezing |
Real | 26-4° freezing | 32-0° freezing | 426° very cold | 5211° cool | 6016° cool | 6619° mild | 7524° warm | 7625° warm | 7021° mild | 5915° cool | 468° cold | 331° very cold |
Humidity | nice 53% | nice 60% | nice 63% | nice 61% | damp 75% | nice 88% | nice 91% | nice 86% | nice 77% | nice 62% | nice 58% | nice 50% |
Rain | dry 23mm | dry 13mm | dry 41mm | dry 20mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 97mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 414mm | rainy 55mm | dry 40mm | rainy 76mm | dry 12mm |
Cloud | pockets 48% | pockets 43% | pockets 34% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 66% | pockets 39% | cloudy 52% | pockets 28% |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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