⭐️ Total score |
2.31/5 (Rank #635)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,401 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🙂 Good: 16Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Nice: 18°C65°F (feels 19°C66°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 57%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy : 159 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 32 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Good
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🤮 Food safety* |
Great
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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💰 Income level* |
Low:
$905 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Okay |
🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Turkey |
🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 18°C 65°F + 😊 Comfy (57%) = feels 19°C 66°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 159 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 33 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 100 TRY in USD | USD 3.08 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TRY 10,000 = USD 308 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
💳 Cashless | |
☕️ Best coffee place | Caribou Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $10,863 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 90% 👱♀️ 10% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Hepsiburada |
🏠 Apartment listings | Sahibinden |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | EasyJet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Doruk Bursa |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,401 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $609 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $896 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $256 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,496 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,221 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $135 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $70 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $40 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $144 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $2,960 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $16 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $17,500 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $35,000 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $87,500 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Safe for women
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ 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 |
55
13° cool |
50
10° cold |
46
8° cold |
59
15° cool |
72
22° mild |
72
22° mild |
79
26° warm |
79
26° warm |
72
22° mild |
64
18° cool |
57
14° cool |
54
12° cool |
Real |
55
13°
cool |
50
10°
cold |
46
8°
cold |
59
15°
cool |
71
22°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
81
27°
warm |
81
27°
warm |
72
22°
mild |
63
17°
cool |
57
14°
cool |
54
12°
cool |
Humidity |
nice 33% |
nice 34% |
nice 34% |
nice 34% |
nice 31% |
nice 34% |
nice 32% |
too dry 29% |
nice 32% |
nice 33% |
nice 33% |
nice 32% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain |
Rain |
rainy 100mm |
rainy 88mm |
rainy 99mm |
rainy 87mm |
rainy 66mm |
rainy 64mm |
dry 26mm |
dry 8mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 38mm |
rainy 75mm |
rainy 114mm |
Cloud |
pockets 43% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 13% |
clear 9% |
pockets 25% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 44% |
Air quality |
bad 138 US AQI |
bad 104 US AQI |
okay 72 US AQI |
okay 83 US AQI |
okay 57 US AQI |
okay 55 US AQI |
clean 10 US AQI |
clean 11 US AQI |
clean 10 US AQI |
clean 18 US AQI |
bad 101 US AQI |
bad 114 US AQI |
Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 333 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 400 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85° AQI 132 😷 ✈️4h $3,484 / mo 🌇 Also went here7 people ×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63° ✈️11h $7,298 / mo 🌇 Also went here7 people ×Saigon has things going for it—great food, beautiful French architecture, interesting history, steady development, and nice enough people. But overall, the vibes are mediocre. Again, the locals are nice enough, though, as a Westerner, you're not going to feel as welcomed as you are in surrounding countries (I don't mean to sound entitled, that's an honest assessment). You just sort of exist; people stare at you and will be amused by you, but don't expect the celebrity treatment you get in othe
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 35° 95° 🥵 ✈️11h $1,038 / mo 🌇 Also went here9 people ×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 76 😷 ✈️11h $1,221 / mo 🌇 Also went here11 people ×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85° 🥵 ✈️12h $4,309 / mo 🌇 Also went here9 people ×Can’t recommend Ubud. It’s just the same overdeveloped and overpriced mentally isolated tourist trap that is Canggu, just a bit worse. If you have never been anywhere else, it might be okay for 2 weeks, but to any seasoned traveller it’s a the type of place you dread.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 50 ✈️14h $1,829 / mo 🌇 Also went here8 people ×
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