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| ⭐️ Total score | 73 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Ecuador |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 18 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 17°C 63°F + 💦 Damp (83%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 104 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 42.25 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe de Ñucallacta |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Cafe Eucalyptus |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Hotel Carvallo |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 330,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,982 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 67% 👱♀️ 33% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AsWeSit |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Santa Inés |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,831 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,069 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,653 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $758 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,058 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,172 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $703 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $96 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $141 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Very damp now
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 6317° cool | 6619° mild | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 6619° mild |
| Real | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6317° cool | 6317° cool | 5915° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6619° mild |
| Humidity | damp 86% | nice 87% | damp 88% | nice 85% | damp 88% | damp 81% | damp 83% | damp 82% | damp 80% | nice 85% | nice 86% | nice 87% |
| Rain | rainy 170mm | rainy 151mm | rainy 296mm | rainy 127mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 126mm | rainy 221mm | rainy 144mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 89% | cloudy 89% | overcast 91% | cloudy 90% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 87% |
| Air quality | clean 27 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 273 people | 280 people | 240 people | 400 people | 400 people | 371 people | 267 people | 367 people | 280 people | 300 people | 233 people | 280 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 109😷✈️10min$1,523 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 6° 43° 6° 42°AQI 109😷✈️13min$1,426 / mo29MbpsI spent 7 days there. It's a little town for beach, surf and party. However, in the place "SELINA", you have a good environment to work, in front of the beach. The coworking space there isn't good, but the coffee inside the same "building" is very cool. I would recommend you to stay here 3 or 4 days, after that it's a bit boring. It's quiet in the week day, so better you manage to schedule to be there at least one friday or saturday, if you like partying.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 38✈️18min$2,754 / mo16Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 75✈️21min$3,990 / mo8MbpsAMAZING country, You will not get bored because it is super rich both culturally and for nature-related activities (hikes, lakes, waterfalls, etc). Everything is pretty close to Quito. But be very careful not to walk around with laptop or cellphone-not even at daylight. Safety is not good. Specially if you are alone.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 104😷✈️25min$1,632 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 75✈️31min$1,146 / mo9Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 109😷✈️40min$1,575 / mo4MbpsCali has beautiful weather and kind, friendly people. You will need to use Spanish here so it is a great place to learn. Locals are very patient with novice speakers. The city has many green spaces and weekend travel to the Pacific region and Coffee country is possible as well as inexpensive flights to other major cities in Colombia. Salsa is king here so it is worth taking lessons, as this is a major part of the city's nightlife. You can live quite cheaply here but expect foreign or imported fo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 134😷✈️1h$1,406 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 95😷✈️1h$1,365 / mo4MbpsI've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 62°AQI 65✈️1h$1,390 / mo5MbpsI concur with the most recent review before mine. This city is great for foodies, the Internet + cellular is great, cafe pasado in Tambo+ convenience stores is dope. Do try all the S/ 12 lunchtime menu del dia all over the city! Calle Chinchon at San Isidro has a lot of the good ones. Nightlife: As an Asian man I found myself better accepted by Peruvian girls than in Colombia. Downside: Public transport is nearly non-existant compared to CDMX and Medellin. But Indrive and Uber are cheap enough.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 2✈️1h$1,422 / mo4Mbps👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 55✈️1h$1,567 / mo5MbpsAMAZING country, You will not get bored because it is super rich both culturally and for nature-related activities (hikes, lakes, waterfalls, etc). Everything is pretty close to Quito. But be very careful not to walk around with laptop or cellphone-not even at daylight. Safety is not good. Specially if you are alone.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 104😷✈️25min$1,632 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 109😷✈️10min$1,523 / mo4MbpsI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 43✈️7h$6,457 / mo30MbpsVery bad place to visit right now. The country is in a time of political and civil unrest, with mass protests closing down airports, train stations, and roads since early December 2022 (it is now mid January 2023). Tourists have had to be evacuated. The train to Machu Picchu is indefinitely closed until further notice. 48 people have died in the conflicts so far. Peru, and Cusco in particular, is a beautiful place with amazing things to see - but right now is not the time to visit.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 74✈️2h$1,789 / mo6MbpsI've been living in the Twin Cities (Saint Paul to be exact but I'm often in Mpls too) for about 8 months now. It really is a hidden gem in North America. Possibly one of the last major metropolitan areas in the US where housing is still relatively affordable if you have a good job. Lots of music venues and outdoorsy culture. It's colder than you can even imagine in the winter but that's a fun experience. Shoulder seasons are short, and summer is hot and muggy. Good food.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -7° 19° -7° 19°AQI 40✈️7h$3,817 / mo38MbpsI've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 62°AQI 65✈️1h$1,390 / mo5MbpsVery expensive to live in. Boring, I don't mind the weather so much but I agree with previous reviews about people here having poor social skills and making friends with the locals is VERY hard. This has been confirmed by my other expat friends from US and Europe who lived here for a bit. People overall are very serious and in a group setting things like real estate and social justice/ equality are normally main topics of the conversation. Very little culture in terms of art, museums, history et
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -9° 16° -4° 24°AQI 46✈️7h$4,415 / mo19MbpsPanama City is a B+ place to live: solid weather, amenities, safety, and cleanliness... but, it feels much like an American city due to the skyscrapers, urban sprawl, and the limited activities. If you're not shopping, eating at a restaurant, bar hopping, or going to a reggaeton club until 3am, there's not a whole lot else to do. The weather is remarkably consistent: everyday it will be 85F, it will be cloudy for a few hours including a 15-30 minute shower, and then it will be mostly sunny for
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 34✈️2h$2,645 / mo14Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 23✈️4h$7,051 / mo5Mbps👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 55✈️1h$1,567 / mo5MbpsI concur with the most recent review before mine. This city is great for foodies, the Internet + cellular is great, cafe pasado in Tambo+ convenience stores is dope. Do try all the S/ 12 lunchtime menu del dia all over the city! Calle Chinchon at San Isidro has a lot of the good ones. Nightlife: As an Asian man I found myself better accepted by Peruvian girls than in Colombia. Downside: Public transport is nearly non-existant compared to CDMX and Medellin. But Indrive and Uber are cheap enough.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 2✈️1h$1,422 / mo4Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 75✈️21min$3,990 / mo8Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 109😷✈️10min$1,523 / mo🌇 Also went here34 peopleAMAZING country, You will not get bored because it is super rich both culturally and for nature-related activities (hikes, lakes, waterfalls, etc). Everything is pretty close to Quito. But be very careful not to walk around with laptop or cellphone-not even at daylight. Safety is not good. Specially if you are alone.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 104😷✈️25min$1,632 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleI've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 62°AQI 65✈️1h$1,390 / mo🌇 Also went here35 peopleI concur with the most recent review before mine. This city is great for foodies, the Internet + cellular is great, cafe pasado in Tambo+ convenience stores is dope. Do try all the S/ 12 lunchtime menu del dia all over the city! Calle Chinchon at San Isidro has a lot of the good ones. Nightlife: As an Asian man I found myself better accepted by Peruvian girls than in Colombia. Downside: Public transport is nearly non-existant compared to CDMX and Medellin. But Indrive and Uber are cheap enough.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 2✈️1h$1,422 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 55✈️1h$1,567 / mo🌇 Also went here54 peopleVery bad place to visit right now. The country is in a time of political and civil unrest, with mass protests closing down airports, train stations, and roads since early December 2022 (it is now mid January 2023). Tourists have had to be evacuated. The train to Machu Picchu is indefinitely closed until further notice. 48 people have died in the conflicts so far. Peru, and Cusco in particular, is a beautiful place with amazing things to see - but right now is not the time to visit.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 74✈️2h$1,789 / mo🌇 Also went here36 peoplei stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 9✈️5h$1,861 / mo🌇 Also went here44 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 43✈️7h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here36 peopleI'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 6✈️11h$3,456 / mo🌇 Also went here36 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 53✈️13h$5,439 / mo🌇 Also went here39 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 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 34✈️13h$5,279 / mo🌇 Also went here31 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 26✈️14h$3,923 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleStayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 72✈️14h$2,371 / mo🌇 Also went here31 peopleI really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 29° 84°AQI 152😷✈️24h$1,354 / mo🌇 Also went here31 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 33° 91°🥵AQI 178😷✈️25h$2,176 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people
