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| ⭐️ Overall score | 205 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Putian is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (82%) = feels 45°C 113°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 50 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 155 |
| 💸 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 | 440,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| 👫 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 | $1,798 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,332 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,043 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $869 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $552 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $77 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $915 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $43 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (12 listings) | $2,178 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $71 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $5 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 8228° warm | 8630° warm | 9937° hot | 11747° scorching | 11546° scorching | 10641° scorching | 8429° warm | 7524° warm | 7021° mild |
| Real | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 7826° warm | 8127° warm | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | nice 70% | nice 74% | nice 74% | nice 78% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 79% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 63% | nice 69% |
| Rain | dry 8mm | dry 32mm | rainy 80mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 152mm | rainy 96mm | dry 20mm | dry 10mm | dry 1mm | dry 21mm |
| Cloud | pockets 42% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 71% | overcast 92% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 56% | pockets 21% | pockets 35% | pockets 39% | pockets 47% |
| Air quality | okay 98 US AQI | okay 99 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 108 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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