⭐️ Total score | 3.55/5 (Rank #107) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,435 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 34°C92°F (feels 57°C135°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 93% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 22 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 77 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
⏱ Average trip length | 23 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 34°C 92°F + 🥵 Sweaty (93%) = feels 57°C 135°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 22 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 2.03 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 203 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Nex Co-working |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Impact Hub |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 71% 👱♀️ 29% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azul |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Azul |
🏥 Best hospital | Santa Cruz |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,435 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $778 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,650 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $471 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $780 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $832 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $279 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $27 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $199 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $6,766 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $25 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $2 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,200 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $10,460 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $28,475 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Feels | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8429° warm | 7021° mild | 6820° mild | 6317° cool | 6619° mild | 6418° cool | 7524° warm | 6820° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm |
Real | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 7424° warm | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 89% | nice 80% | nice 84% | nice 83% | nice 79% | damp 85% | nice 70% | nice 76% | nice 79% | nice 87% | nice 83% | nice 79% |
Rain | rainy 215mm | rainy 126mm | rainy 179mm | dry 36mm | rainy 98mm | rainy 106mm | dry 48mm | rainy 65mm | rainy 62mm | rainy 262mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 97mm |
Cloud | cloudy 84% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 74% | pockets 47% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 67% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
Remote workers | 473 people | 489 people | 467 people | 486 people | 333 people | 400 people | 450 people | 486 people | 286 people | 343 people | 500 people | 575 people |
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Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 78°🥵AQI 30✈️20min$1,628 / mo3Mbps×Great city if you want a quieter place, but close enough to São Paulo. If you live near the bus terminal, you can get a bus every 30 min to são paulo. It has some good coworking space if needed. Not as much to do as são paulo, but has some good food places, supermarkets, one good mall. If you live near the main avenue (nove de julho) and close to Jundiaí Shopping / bus terminal, it has some good apartaments to rent, close enough to a good supermarket, the mall, restaurants, public transporta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 56° 133° 36° 97°🥵AQI 82😷✈️27min$2,624 / mo7Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 57° 135° 36° 96°🥵AQI 102😷✈️27min$1,951 / mo6Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 22✈️44min$1,474 / mo4Mbps×Love it! The sun, the weather, the beach, the relaxing vibe! People are friendly, acommodations and food are affordable! And living here, for 1 year, as a woman, I never felt unsafe! It is crowed but I like frenetic cities!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 59😷✈️54min$2,212 / mo4Mbps×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 78°🥵AQI 30✈️20min$1,628 / mo3Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 57° 135° 36° 96°🥵AQI 102😷✈️27min$1,951 / mo6Mbps×Love it! The sun, the weather, the beach, the relaxing vibe! People are friendly, acommodations and food are affordable! And living here, for 1 year, as a woman, I never felt unsafe! It is crowed but I like frenetic cities!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 59😷✈️54min$2,212 / mo4Mbps×This city is incredible. Now I understand why Parisians look down on other cities. It is endless. Museums, history, cool bars, incredible food, diversity, beautiful people nicely dressed... It helps a lot to speak French. It's expensive. I'd love to nomad here for a month or two. I really liked Marais as an area.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 63😷✈️13h$5,345 / mo19Mbps×Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 44° 111° 35° 94°🥵AQI 59😷✈️1h$1,436 / mo6Mbps×Brasilia is a hidden gem in the middle of Brazil. Very safe city, with good restaurants, super safe traffic, very green, perfect for biking, and with a high level of education. Shaped like an airplane, it is the most famous planned town in the world, by legendary architect Oscar Niemayer. Internet is good, you can rent a cheap Airbnb, most of them with a green view, There are more than 800 waterfalls close by (check Chapada dos Veadeiros) and hiking spots. The climate very pleasant as long as
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 37° 99° 36° 97°🥵AQI 5✈️1h$1,767 / mo7Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 22✈️44min$1,474 / mo4Mbps×I spent only one week here, so I can’t give super well-rounded opinion. Unfortunately BKK wasn’t for me, and I figured that out very quickly. I prefer working in cafes on USA stock market hours. I found nearly every decent cafe in Bangkok closed at 6pm or 8pm at the latest. Yes, there are some coworking places, but most don’t allow you to stay after 6pm on a drop-in basis. Traffic was hectic and stressful. Traffic jams on random streets in the middle of the day were common, so doing city t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 43° 109° 34° 93°🥵AQI 44✈️22h$1,345 / mo30Mbps×Not true that people are racist in Buenos Aires, people are very curious about foreigners culture. Foreigners are very sensitive to Argentinian communication culture. It is imposible to judge a whole region about "respect" by staying one week as tourist. If you go to Argentina don't assume you are entitled to be treated as king because you bring dollars. The society has been in economic crisis for 40 years and yet they manage to keep sense of humor and passion, and like any other metropolis you
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 38✈️2h$1,665 / mo4Mbps×I stayed in Poblenou, which is a really chill upcoming area outside of the tourism of Barcelona. Really enjoyed it. Very tranquil. People were relatively friendly compared to most in Europe and there was lots of nice food and coffee places. Also pretty okay gyms. Really enjoyed Barcelona this time! Just make sure you stay outside the tourist areas.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 26✈️12h$4,510 / mo21Mbps×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 78°🥵AQI 30✈️20min$1,628 / mo🌇 Also went here125 people×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 57° 135° 36° 96°🥵AQI 102😷✈️27min$1,951 / mo🌇 Also went here149 people×Love it! The sun, the weather, the beach, the relaxing vibe! People are friendly, acommodations and food are affordable! And living here, for 1 year, as a woman, I never felt unsafe! It is crowed but I like frenetic cities!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 59😷✈️54min$2,212 / mo🌇 Also went here117 people×Not true that people are racist in Buenos Aires, people are very curious about foreigners culture. Foreigners are very sensitive to Argentinian communication culture. It is imposible to judge a whole region about "respect" by staying one week as tourist. If you go to Argentina don't assume you are entitled to be treated as king because you bring dollars. The society has been in economic crisis for 40 years and yet they manage to keep sense of humor and passion, and like any other metropolis you
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 38✈️2h$1,665 / mo🌇 Also went here96 people×Unfortunately this was supposed to be the best economy in LATAM but what I found instead was a very over priced for what you get experience. People are rude in general, until you get to meet them personally, and the country is way behind in infrastructure, innovation and culture that most countries around it. Not worth your time and money at all.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 61😷✈️3h$1,995 / mo🌇 Also went here83 people×7 years ago Lisbon was amazing. Since it became trendy lost what made it unique. I will return when the hype is gone!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 16✈️11h$3,625 / mo🌇 Also went here90 people×I stayed in Poblenou, which is a really chill upcoming area outside of the tourism of Barcelona. Really enjoyed it. Very tranquil. People were relatively friendly compared to most in Europe and there was lots of nice food and coffee places. Also pretty okay gyms. Really enjoyed Barcelona this time! Just make sure you stay outside the tourist areas.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 26✈️12h$4,510 / mo🌇 Also went here106 people×This city is incredible. Now I understand why Parisians look down on other cities. It is endless. Museums, history, cool bars, incredible food, diversity, beautiful people nicely dressed... It helps a lot to speak French. It's expensive. I'd love to nomad here for a month or two. I really liked Marais as an area.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 63😷✈️13h$5,345 / mo🌇 Also went here96 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 50✈️13h$5,757 / mo🌇 Also went here76 people×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 19✈️13h$6,020 / mo🌇 Also went here99 people×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 4✈️13h$5,075 / mo🌇 Also went here73 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 25✈️13h$5,807 / mo🌇 Also went here99 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 27✈️14h$3,137 / mo🌇 Also went here72 people×I'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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 27° 80°AQI 42✈️14h$4,040 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×I spent only one week here, so I can’t give super well-rounded opinion. Unfortunately BKK wasn’t for me, and I figured that out very quickly. I prefer working in cafes on USA stock market hours. I found nearly every decent cafe in Bangkok closed at 6pm or 8pm at the latest. Yes, there are some coworking places, but most don’t allow you to stay after 6pm on a drop-in basis. Traffic was hectic and stressful. Traffic jams on random streets in the middle of the day were common, so doing city t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 43° 109° 34° 93°🥵AQI 44✈️22h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here104 people×