⭐️ Total score | 2.22/5 (Rank #802) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,011 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 28Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C81°F (feels 31°C88°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 80% |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | High: $2,120 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Aruba |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 28 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 27°C 81°F + 🥵 Sweaty (80%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 AWG in USD | USD 5.56 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AWG 1,000 = USD 556 |
💻 Best coworking space | Colab Aruba |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 28,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $25,444 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 43% 👱♀️ 57% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 80% 👱♀️ 20% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Aruba Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospitaal |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,011 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,581 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,885 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $538 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $5,314 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,299 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $379 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $249 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $108 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $313 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $8 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,310 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $7 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Family friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 8831° hot | 9535° hot | 8630° warm | 9032° hot |
Real | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8429° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 79% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 75% | nice 78% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 79% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | dry 43mm | dry 24mm | dry 19mm | dry 12mm | dry 34mm | dry 27mm | dry 30mm | dry 33mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 115mm | dry 42mm | rainy 72mm |
Cloud | pockets 24% | pockets 20% | pockets 24% | pockets 26% | pockets 26% | pockets 27% | pockets 21% | pockets 24% | pockets 21% | pockets 23% | pockets 23% | pockets 25% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 333 people | 225 people | 333 people | 200 people | 280 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 257 people | 300 people | 200 people | 333 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°✈️53min$1,885 / mo63Mbps×Stayed adjacent to the Sotomayor neighborhood. Felt the safest here vs Medellin and Bogota, even while walking outside in the wee hours to smoke. Very friendly and hospitable people. Lots to do in and surrounding the city. Good places to eat are plentiful and scattered about. Try the hormigas culonas if in season on your visit.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 38✈️11h$6,231 / mo🌇 Also went here32 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️11h$3,741 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°✈️11h$5,535 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 65😷✈️11h$4,352 / mo🌇 Also went here26 people×Athens is a fantastic city. Locals are friendly and food is fantastic. There isn't a huge amount to do, but for a short stay it's definitely worth the visit.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 80😷✈️13h$2,878 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×I’m working remotely and since it’s war in Ukraine I was living in Istanbul for half of year, after moving to Dubai i realised it’s not much more expensive here in Dubai. And besides that no one is cheating me like it was happening non stop in Istanbul
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 66😷✈️13h$1,856 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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