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| ⭐️ Overall score | 230 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 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 | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Lithuania |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 17 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 45 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 13°C 56°F + 💦 Damp (81%) = feels 12°C 54°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 24 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 54 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Bite |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 117 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Talent Garden Kaunas |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | HUB Kaunas |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Green Cafe |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Kaunas Camp Inn |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $14,707 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 38% 👱♀️ 62% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Kilobaitas |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Flat4Rent |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ryanair |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Ryanair |
| 🏥 Best hospital | EUROMEDIC LIETUVA |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,040 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,211 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,321 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $663 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $467 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $292 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,106 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (62 listings) | $1,711 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $56 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $11,813 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $19,629 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $35,379 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 0° freezing | 394° cold | 5714° cool | 6317° cool | 7725° warm | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold |
| Real | 28-2° freezing | 373° very cold | 436° very cold | 5815° cool | 6317° cool | 7625° warm | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 6217° cool | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 415° very cold |
| Humidity | damp 84% | damp 85% | damp 76% | nice 56% | damp 73% | nice 72% | nice 79% | nice 76% | damp 75% | damp 86% | damp 89% | damp 87% |
| Rain | dry 30mm | dry 21mm | dry 26mm | dry 4mm | dry 34mm | rainy 121mm | rainy 51mm | dry 40mm | dry 27mm | dry 28mm | dry 21mm | dry 20mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 81% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 70% | pockets 28% | cloudy 81% | pockets 39% | pockets 45% | pockets 49% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 83% | overcast 93% | overcast 91% |
| Air quality | okay 55 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 300 people | 229 people | 240 people | 400 people | 267 people | 267 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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It's very fun and green city in summer and quite dark and cold during winter time. Old town is beautiful and cozy, fast internet, few coworking spots.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 1✈️14h$1,027 / mo20Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 31✈️16min$2,244 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleKaliningrad is great city! Most of "scores" and "Pros and Cons" are not true. Because of Baltic Sea, it's quite warm here in winter, not much of snow. But yes, humidity is quite high. Cannabis is illegal! Be attentive! People are tolerant, no matter who you are if you have good maneers.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 30✈️17min$2,067 / mo🌇 Also went here27 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 58✈️21min$974 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleI lived in Central Warsaw on and off for about 1 year pre and post-pandemic. Central Warsaw is the "New York of Eastern Europe". Pros: - Very convenient, safe and clean. - Lots of modern, futuristic buildings. Easy to find nice apartments. - Very bike-able. - Not too expensive. - Lots of coworking spaces. - Some startup culture and quite a few meetups (pre-pandemic). - Polish women are beautiful. - Interesting history. Cons: - Not much of a nomad scene. - Coworking spaces have a rather corpor
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 29✈️28min$1,797 / mo🌇 Also went here39 peopleI lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 28✈️41min$2,126 / mo🌇 Also went here43 peopleI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 56°AQI 13✈️48min$3,490 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 20✈️59min$3,069 / mo🌇 Also went here38 peopleLived in Moscow for a year in 2019. I worked in the mornings and late evenings working in multiple locations across the city (mainly centre) and travelled via metro/walked. Never had safety concerns. M29yo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 42✈️1h$1,939 / mo🌇 Also went here31 peoplePros: * Very clean - lots of hand sanitisation places and people wear masks + streets are clean * Great, cheap public transport * Very beautiful city and good parks * Pretty good Italian and asian food Cons: * Coffee shops seem to have mostly gone and been replaced with lots of Starbucks and other chains. * Food / drinks is very expensive in most parts - Local beer is quite cheap though * Barely any night life to speak of - everything closes at 11pm Other Info: COVID restrictions are very stri
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 50✈️1h$2,793 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleI've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 17✈️2h$3,965 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 38✈️2h$4,810 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 48✈️2h$4,001 / mo🌇 Also went here33 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 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 24✈️2h$4,281 / mo🌇 Also went here48 peopleI live here in Dublin and I disagree you should stay in Ballymun or Finglas. These places are dangerous. Very. Mobile operator Three is terrible. Vodafone tends to be a bit more expensive but to support your work it is the only one I recommend. Dublin and the whole of Ireland is charming and fun. It is not cheap. You will not regret coming over.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 13✈️3h$3,890 / mo🌇 Also went here30 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
