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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 196 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Region | Oceania |
| 🚩 Country | Samoa |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 38°C 100°F |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | BlueSky |
| 💸 10 WST in USD | USD 3.95 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | WST 1,000 = USD 395 |
| ☕️ 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 |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $4,214 / year |
| 👫 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 | $2,180 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,296 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,274 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $650 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $395 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $196 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,380 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $65 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (45 listings) | $2,283 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $75 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ 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 sweaty and humid now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| 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 38✈️10h$931 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleBali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86°🥵AQI 19✈️11h$1,339 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️13h$2,879 / 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 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 134😷✈️13h$2,397 / 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86°🥵AQI 73✈️13h$1,291 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleMuch nicer than people would have you think. Too many locals seem to be under the impression that it's the busiest, most expensive city in the world. These people clearly haven't travelled much. Not saying it's cheap, but for a big city in an English speaking country it's about what you'd expect, if not cheaper. Pros: - Hot humid summers, gorgeous orange autumns, cold snowy winters. If you like distinct seasons this is a great place to be. Winter is about 4-5 months, from Nov-Mar. Ignore every
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 34✈️15h$3,357 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI've been there in summer. I don't understand why the rate of walkability is bad, that is ridiculous. People are friendly and polite, if you want to find a job is easy, although opening a bank account to get your salary can take two months. There are plenty of coffees, restaurants and bars, often you need to book in advance (more if the weather is good), and they will rip you off. I knew this, and I went there with the plan of no-eating out, no coffee-out and no-party, but even the supermarket i
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 6° 43° 7° 44°AQI 21✈️20h$4,205 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleSpent a month in Belarus this July - we have some good friends there we work with so it was an excellent time. Some good restaurants. People are extremely friendly, just gotta adapt to the culture a bit. Most seemed to be very interested in the fact that I was American. Felt kind of like the country is just starting to open up and it will be of more international interest in the upcoming 5 - 10 years. English is spoken in Minsk but probably less then in ukraine (my only other former soviet
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 42✈️20h$1,086 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleWas recently in POZNAN, and saw there was a huge pro-abortion movement in the old town + outer parts of it. My first impression was that the city ressembles a lot with PRAGUE and WARSAW. Hills + big squares with covered tram tracks. The pedestrian area is really nice. 1 or 2 days would be enough to check the city.
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 11✈️22h$5,166 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleOne of my favourite places to visit. Best vegetarian food in the world.
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