⭐️ Total score |
2.51/5 (Rank #596)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😝 Cheap: $983 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🙂 Good: 22Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 33°C92°F (feels 43°C109°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 73%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Good: 71 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* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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💰 Income level* |
Low:
$792 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Okay |
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Okay |
🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Okay |
🖥 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 | Asia |
🚩 Country | Malaysia |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 22 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 33°C 92°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 43°C 109°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 71 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 32 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 10 MYR in USD | USD 2.15 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MYR 1,000 = USD 215 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
☕️ Best coffee place | San Francisco Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 360,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $9,508 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ibilik |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Malaysia |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $983 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $664 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,784 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $510 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $426 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $738 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $297 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $20 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $24 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $113 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $4,724 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Vibrant city with access to outdoor activities
✅ Good internet at guesthouse
✅ Reasonable accommodation rates
✅ Convenient city center location with shops and restaurants
✅ Affordable hotel choices
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ Not a lot of alcohol abuse
❌ Lack of community and social activities for nomads
❌ Coworking spaces are mostly empty and lack initiative
❌ Slow mobile internet
❌ Limited activities and nature spots
❌ Frequent rain impacting outdoor plans
❌ Challenges finding decent accommodation
❌ Many places close early
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Marijuana is illegal
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Feels |
82
28° warm |
82
28° warm |
84
29° warm |
88
31° hot |
88
31° hot |
86
30° warm |
90
32° hot |
84
29° warm |
88
31° hot |
88
31° hot |
88
31° hot |
84
29° warm |
Real |
82
28°
very warm |
82
28°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
86
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very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
88
31°
hot |
84
29°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
Humidity |
nice 47% |
nice 46% |
nice 45% |
nice 44% |
nice 44% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 44% |
nice 44% |
nice 44% |
nice 44% |
nice 46% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain |
rainy 429mm |
rainy 294mm |
rainy 197mm |
rainy 141mm |
rainy 245mm |
rainy 130mm |
rainy 117mm |
rainy 211mm |
rainy 235mm |
rainy 232mm |
rainy 227mm |
rainy 308mm |
Cloud |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 52% |
cloudy 53% |
pockets 46% |
cloudy 52% |
pockets 48% |
pockets 47% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 52% |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 55% |
Air quality |
clean 27 US AQI |
clean 27 US AQI |
clean 28 US AQI |
clean 25 US AQI |
clean 15 US AQI |
clean 17 US AQI |
clean 36 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 63 US AQI |
clean 38 US AQI |
clean 44 US AQI |
clean 31 US AQI |
Sun |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
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avoid sun 7 UVI |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 50 ✈️2h $1,955 / mo 62 Mbps ×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
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(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️6h $2,557 / mo 85 Mbps ×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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️1h $1,030 / mo 🌇 Also went here24 people ×Penang is really, really hot and humid. It's pretty affordable but it's relatively small. Personally, I think traveling Penang is great because you have a mix of cultures but I couldn't stay here for a longer time because it is so unbelievable hot.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️2h $977 / mo 🌇 Also went here36 people ×Ubud is dead. I plan to stay here for a month starting today, but my heart is already breaking. The traffic is too much. The center of Ubud is always crowded with cars and motorcycles, not a very relaxing environment. It's a pity.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 50 ✈️2h $1,955 / mo 🌇 Also went here22 people ×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 79° AQI 50 ✈️2h $1,844 / mo 🌇 Also went here19 people ×The worst place that I've been to in Asia (& I've been to quite a few). Every interaction with a local is a sales pitch for something. Tuk tuk, massage, weed, food, prostitution, you name it. People look at you as a customer and nothing else. This is very different in other countries in South East Asia. I've had plenty of authentic, non-sales-pitchy interactions with locals in Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines or Thailand. None of that here. It feels like this place only exists to extract as much
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️2h $1,195 / mo 🌇 Also went here24 people ×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️2h $1,358 / mo 🌇 Also went here43 people ×Two weeks in Hanoi. Really enjoyed the city. Besides, the pollution, a nice charming city. Great access to all the tourist destinations in the north Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh, Sa Pa. WiFi is excellent. Food is excellent. People are friendly. Not a nightlife person or coworking space but it's available. Cafes are everywhere and yes egg coffee is amazing. Definitely recommend.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 51° 124° 36° 97° 🥵 AQI 104 😷 ✈️3h $1,054 / mo 🌇 Also went here25 people ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️3h $994 / mo 🌇 Also went here31 people ×Absolutely beautiful country. Everything functions well. Cost is low. Endless beautiful cafes and sights. Cons: The locals are not very friendly. Need an app for everything because English is not common.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️6h $2,557 / mo 🌇 Also went here19 people ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️6h $3,081 / mo 🌇 Also went here21 people ×The city is overrated. I feel like I have to be on guard most of the time. People are always trying to scam you, from taxi drivers to waitresses. It's fine for a three-day vacation which is more than enough but staying long-term is very subjective... Airbnbs are overpriced for what you get. Turkish hospitality is a joke. They’re really good at conning tourists here. I stayed for a month, but I should've just passed through. A layover at the airport would've been plenty.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78° AQI 43 ✈️12h $1,858 / mo 🌇 Also went here21 people ×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67° AQI 27 ✈️15h $5,666 / mo 🌇 Also went here25 people ×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 25 ✈️15h $5,697 / mo 🌇 Also went here27 people ×
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