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| ⭐️ Total score | 2 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 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 | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
1 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Shaoxing is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 20°C 69°F + 😊 Comfy (96%) = feels 20°C 68°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 55 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.37 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 137 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 630,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,455 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $956 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,829 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $523 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $662 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,867 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $260 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $31 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $61 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $127 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $18,885 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels |
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8° cold |
55
13° cool |
57
14° cool |
70
21° mild |
84
29° warm |
91
33° hot |
109
43° scorching |
102
39° hot |
93
34° hot |
70
21° mild |
61
16° cool |
54
12° cool |
| Real |
46
8°
cold |
55
13°
cool |
57
14°
cool |
67
20°
mild |
79
26°
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27°
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88
31°
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86
30°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
68
20°
mild |
61
16°
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54
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| Humidity |
nice 59% |
damp 79% |
damp 80% |
nice 75% |
nice 85% |
sweaty 93% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 87% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 79% |
damp 73% |
nice 65% |
| Rain |
dry 20mm |
rainy 72mm |
rainy 156mm |
rainy 64mm |
rainy 219mm |
rainy 272mm |
rainy 358mm |
rainy 240mm |
rainy 140mm |
rainy 145mm |
rainy 62mm |
dry 13mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 47% |
cloudy 63% |
cloudy 87% |
cloudy 89% |
overcast 93% |
overcast 91% |
overcast 93% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 64% |
cloudy 72% |
cloudy 69% |
pockets 33% |
| Air quality |
bad 125 US AQI |
bad 113 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
okay 97 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 107 US AQI |
bad 137 US AQI |
| Sun |
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Surprisingly green an pleasant city with all the ancient parks and strolls around the west lake area.
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