⭐️ Total score | 2.45/5 (Rank #687) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,491 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 34Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 17°C62°F (feels 18°C64°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 86% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 54 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 25 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Great |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,513 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* | Okay |
🧳 Lost luggage* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | Canada |
🗓️ Average trip length | 29 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 34 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 17°C 62°F + 💦 Damp (86%) = feels 18°C 64°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 54 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 26 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Oliver |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Grovenor |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 CAD in USD | USD 7.23 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CAD 100 = USD 72 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Startup Edmonton |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 930,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $42,154 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 88% 👱♀️ 12% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Best Buy |
🏠 Apartment listings | VRBO |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | West Jet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Canada |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,491 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,835 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,408 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,260 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,365 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,569 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $908 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $158 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $208 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $8,078 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $25 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,825 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,643 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $109,369 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 19-7° freezing | -4-20° freezing | 341° cold | 436° cold | 5412° cool | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 7021° mild | 6317° cool | 457° cold | 30-1° freezing | 1-17° freezing |
Real | 25-4° freezing | 5-15° freezing | 373° very cold | 457° cold | 5412° cool | 6820° mild | 7424° warm | 6820° mild | 6217° cool | 468° cold | 341° very cold | 9-13° freezing |
Humidity | nice 33% | nice 31% | nice 34% | too dry 27% | too dry 29% | too dry 30% | too dry 29% | nice 30% | too dry 29% | too dry 27% | nice 34% | nice 31% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 14mm | dry 14mm | dry 19mm | dry 19mm | rainy 57mm | dry 49mm | dry 40mm | dry 44mm | dry 37mm | dry 24mm | dry 25mm | dry 19mm |
Cloud | pockets 33% | pockets 28% | pockets 35% | pockets 33% | pockets 37% | pockets 36% | pockets 28% | pockets 34% | pockets 34% | pockets 26% | pockets 33% | pockets 35% |
Air quality | clean 29 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI |
Remote workers | 309 people | 200 people | 309 people | 338 people | 378 people | 457 people | 417 people | 436 people | 450 people | 371 people | 255 people | 525 people |
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Nice clean city with lots to do if you're into sports and outdoor activities. Pretty good rec leagues (hockey, baseball, etc.) and probably the only city in North America with a full motocross track in the city centre. Also have kart racing nearby (Strathmore) and indoor/outdoor skydiving. Also lots of mountain biking, rock climbing, and hiking within a short drive (Maclean Creek, Drumheller, mountains). Obviously great snowboarding and skiing both in the city (Canadian Olympic Park) and nearby
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 148😷✈️22min$3,911 / mo34Mbps×If you want to make money in Canada to travel more, then come here. But really there's nothing else here. it does have an airport to fly somewhere better though, which is nice. Come here to work a few years, then fly to bangkok with all your money.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°✈️30min$4,409 / mo35Mbps×I live in Saskatoon. It's brutally cold in the winter--do not visit. That said, it's cheap and gorgeous in the summer (May to September). Temperatures usually are between 20 and 30 Celsius during the day, and the sky is almost always clear. The sunsets are gorgeous, and there is a riverbank corridor that runs through the city where you can walk for 20 kilometres along the river and never cross a street (it's called the Meewasin... If you like nature, you will want to book a place near it).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°✈️39min$3,161 / mo34Mbps×Great for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 21✈️1h$5,512 / mo111Mbps×Nice clean city with lots to do if you're into sports and outdoor activities. Pretty good rec leagues (hockey, baseball, etc.) and probably the only city in North America with a full motocross track in the city centre. Also have kart racing nearby (Strathmore) and indoor/outdoor skydiving. Also lots of mountain biking, rock climbing, and hiking within a short drive (Maclean Creek, Drumheller, mountains). Obviously great snowboarding and skiing both in the city (Canadian Olympic Park) and nearby
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 148😷✈️22min$3,911 / mo34Mbps×One of the worst cities in N.America. Insanely expensive, people are awkward and making friends is difficult. Lots of homeless and mentally ill and drug addicts everywhere. Lots of construction. American corpo work culture with zero benefits of American corpo work culture, low salaries. If you want to live in North American city try to go to US instead, NY, Chicago, Miami, all of these are better.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 34✈️4h$4,235 / mo121Mbps×It's a safe area of Mexico, and also even the people who try to sell you crap, 'vendors' is less aggressive here. I have done about 2.5 months total in PV (two separate trips). Airbnbs are plentiful near the centro and december 5, more expensive in the romantic zone and even more expensive in Sayulita. But central PV is pretty cheap, even inland from Hotel Zone is nice and cheap. Roads and walkways are narrow and horrible. Internet is OK. If you stay in PV central, the beach isn't so great for s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵✈️5h$2,699 / mo17Mbps×Dirty. Hospital system is atrocious. Its like having a bunch of shiny glossy hospitals with poorly educated doctors everywhere. Most people end up going to 'Quickcare ER' places that are plastered all over town. Lets put it this way... The school system fast tracks people to become teachers in almost no time at all & they still quit in droves all the time because kids are out of control. Las Vegas desperately tries to buy status & sophistication but its always cartoony and not organic. Its a tow
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 43° 109° 42° 107°🥵✈️3h$4,095 / mo81Mbps×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 goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 25✈️9h$5,699 / mo29Mbps×Spent the month of September here and it was nice for the first 2 weeks. There are a lot of young people due to the multiple universities and you smell weed everywhere!!! There is also so much construction going on with the roads and buildings, so it’s best to walk and bike most places. The BIXI bike system is awesome! There are also a lot of homeless screaming at people randomly in the streets. Food and rent is expensive. The “European” vibe is isolated to a 3 street area, but the re
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 12✈️4h$4,276 / mo60Mbps×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°✈️5h$1,965 / mo58Mbps×Montego Bay is a nice friendly place to stay if your a tourist. I like going to the market for fresh vegetables and fruit. There’s a lot of taxis and transportation for cheap If you know where your going and how to count jamaican money. Doctors Cave beach is popular and other community beaches in Montego Bay. There’s a lot of activities to do.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵✈️7h$3,273 / mo17Mbps×I would say the cost of living in Winnipeg is pretty accurately represented. I live here, and honestly, it's a decent cheap Canadian capital, I can live while doing my hobby here, and sharing a house. It could be a lot worse if you're thinking of coming to Canada for a while, rent can be found relatively low cost and utilities are cheap too. Meals vary, of course the locals know where the good cheap places are, I like the $5 tacos at BMC market. It is flat and very cold in the winter so do be pr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 28° 83°AQI 3✈️2h$3,233 / mo34Mbps×Nice clean city with lots to do if you're into sports and outdoor activities. Pretty good rec leagues (hockey, baseball, etc.) and probably the only city in North America with a full motocross track in the city centre. Also have kart racing nearby (Strathmore) and indoor/outdoor skydiving. Also lots of mountain biking, rock climbing, and hiking within a short drive (Maclean Creek, Drumheller, mountains). Obviously great snowboarding and skiing both in the city (Canadian Olympic Park) and nearby
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 148😷✈️22min$3,911 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×Great for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 21✈️1h$5,512 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×I just came back after 12 years, last time I lived in SF for 3 months in 2012. Back then it was a walkable and clean and fun, pretty safe city. The only place back then that you'd avoid was the Tenderloin. There was homeless but they actually weren't aggressive. There wasn't much robberies either. San Francisco in 2024 is very different, as you've probably seen from social media. The homeless problem has grown a lot since then, and they're not just clustered in the Tenderloin, they're all over
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°✈️3h$6,318 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×It's obscenely expensive for low quality service with kinda mean people. Not nice. The regulations and taxes here are insane too. You pay a neighbourhood tax, district tax, city tax, county tax and then state tax on every payment you make! The traffic here is insane too. And just getting from place to place is difficult because city is so gigantic. We talked to our hotel's manager here and he struggles a lot with the insane amount of rules California tells him to follow. It makes it hard to st
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 60😷✈️3h$5,280 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people×One of the worst cities in N.America. Insanely expensive, people are awkward and making friends is difficult. Lots of homeless and mentally ill and drug addicts everywhere. Lots of construction. American corpo work culture with zero benefits of American corpo work culture, low salaries. If you want to live in North American city try to go to US instead, NY, Chicago, Miami, all of these are better.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 34✈️4h$4,235 / mo🌇 Also went here24 people×Spent the month of September here and it was nice for the first 2 weeks. There are a lot of young people due to the multiple universities and you smell weed everywhere!!! There is also so much construction going on with the roads and buildings, so it’s best to walk and bike most places. The BIXI bike system is awesome! There are also a lot of homeless screaming at people randomly in the streets. Food and rent is expensive. The “European” vibe is isolated to a 3 street area, but the re
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 12✈️4h$4,276 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️4h$6,831 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 25✈️9h$5,699 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 55😷✈️10h$5,433 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️10h$3,827 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°AQI 34✈️10h$4,593 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 32° 89°🥵✈️11h$4,881 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×Hong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84°🥵✈️14h$2,925 / mo🌇 Also went here15 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 goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 27✈️15h$991 / mo🌇 Also went here17 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 goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 60😷✈️16h$1,353 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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