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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 191 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Region | Oceania |
| 🚩 Country | Samoa |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 85°F + Humid (83%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | BlueSky |
| 💸 10 WST in USD | USD 3.82 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | WST 1,000 = USD 382 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Coffee Bean Cafe |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Tanoa Apia |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Tanoa Apia |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 36,000 people |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Fiji Airways |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Fiji Airways |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,931 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,130 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,196 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $628 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $382 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $189 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,183 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $55 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (47 listings) | $1,718 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $56 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 10038° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9937° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot |
| Real | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 71% | sweaty 71% | nice 69% | nice 68% | nice 68% | nice 70% | sweaty 71% | nice 69% | nice 70% | nice 69% | nice 68% | sweaty 72% |
| Rain | rainy 142mm | rainy 160mm | rainy 83mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 106mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 76mm | dry 41mm | rainy 83mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 172mm |
| Cloud | overcast 94% | overcast 98% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 63% | pockets 49% | pockets 47% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 69% | overcast 90% |
| Sun | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85°🥵AQI 67✈️13h$2,777 / mo🌇 Also went here1 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 55✈️13h$2,248 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
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