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| ⭐️ Total score | 219 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 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 | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Finland |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌫 -2°C 28°F + 💦 Damp (90%) = feels -6°C 21°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 26 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 19 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Sonera |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 111 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Arnolds |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 270,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $43,339 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Verkkokauppa |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Oikotie |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Ryanair |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Finair |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Jorvi Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,651 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,802 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,432 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,266 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $945 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $221 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,129 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $193 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 35 listings) | $1,579 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $52 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $10 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,376 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,930 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $110,589 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 28-2° freezing | 0° freezing | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold | 0° freezing |
| Real | 27-3° freezing | 352° very cold | 362° very cold | 4910° cold | 5412° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 5513° cool | 457° cold | 394° very cold | 373° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 70% | damp 74% | damp 72% | nice 56% | nice 62% | nice 66% | nice 68% | nice 77% | damp 81% | damp 83% | damp 81% | damp 84% |
| Rain | dry 32mm | dry 26mm | dry 38mm | dry 4mm | dry 36mm | rainy 101mm | dry 41mm | dry 30mm | dry 37mm | rainy 73mm | dry 38mm | dry 50mm |
| Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 76% | pockets 44% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 89% | overcast 98% | overcast 93% |
| Air quality | clean 18 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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A lot more things to do there on Summer than on Winter, even though the city is beautiful both seasons. Wouldn't recommend going there in the beginning of spring or late autumn since it'd be mostly rainy and cold. On Summer I recommend just walking around the city and checking out all the architecture and drinking beer on the beach of Hietalahti or taking a ferry to Suomenlinna and having a picnic day there. Linnanmäki amusement park is also nice if you are traveling with children. On Winter I
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌫 Feels -7° 19° -2° 28°AQI 26🚕32min$3,597 / mo24MbpsI lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -7° 19° -2° 29°AQI 27🚕3h$2,024 / mo30Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -6° 21° -2° 28°AQI 34✈️11min$2,636 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -8° 18° -4° 25°AQI 30✈️12min$3,632 / mo24MbpsBeautiful place, family friendly, safe (except for the bikes, you can lose your wallet with money inside and find it on a bench - so it will be visible and will remain dry - but there is a ridiculous amount of bike stealing), but boring, SO boring.. except the summer. The summer is nice, you can have fun in one of the many lakes - at walking / biking distance of city center. The citizens are shy and keep distance, and it's very, very hard to make friends, but they are polite and respectful. If y
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌫 Feels -8° 18° -5° 22°AQI 30✈️19min$2,984 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -4° 25° -1° 30°AQI 18✈️19min$2,083 / mo32MbpsLove this city, very romantic and cool in the summer. but it is difficult to find a nice airbnb. it is too much small or too expensive for the quality. you will def have great time here. but unfortunately, I had problem to make friends here. some how, It seemed the locals were not quite interested in having communication or making forein friends even in the co-working space. I don't think this is because of the language barrier but...I cant explain this well. anyway, the city is great to stay f
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌫 Feels -7° 19° -4° 25°AQI 24✈️25min$1,344 / mo9MbpsVisited the small, cute part of RIGA's old town and the ART NOUVEAU architecture that is located a bit outside the center. Seemed quite juvenile + full of tourists during the summer of JULY 2019. Has a bit of that ex-comunist era inside the city.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -5° 23° 0° 33°AQI 6✈️29min$2,102 / mo18MbpsI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -3° 27° 1° 33°AQI 61✈️30min$3,583 / mo35MbpsI am a foreign student here in Oulu, and I am pretty sure that the scores should be updated. Such as Internet connection here is great, 60-100mbs at my workplace. The city is bike friendly and foreign friendly, much better than the east and the south part of Finland. The city is promoting startups and improving environment toward internationalisation, so the future is bright and worthy. There is not much nightlife activities to do besides drinking and dancing, but in the summer you can do sport
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -11° 12° -8° 17°AQI 12✈️43min$2,905 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels -3° 27° 2° 35°AQI 26✈️43min$1,612 / mo25MbpsLiving here for a couple of years already. Cost of living information is very accurate, even surprised me :D But I can't agree with couple Cons. As mentioned in the older review, pretty much everyone speaks english, only some older folks (40+) doesn't. It's true that LGBT community isn't very popular, but I would not say that it's hostile. Lithuanians indeed are a bit closed in, but that's only till the first drink, then everyone becomes besties. If you struggle with making friends visit "Dzem P
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels -2° 28° 2° 35°AQI 30✈️47min$2,071 / mo33MbpsA lot more things to do there on Summer than on Winter, even though the city is beautiful both seasons. Wouldn't recommend going there in the beginning of spring or late autumn since it'd be mostly rainy and cold. On Summer I recommend just walking around the city and checking out all the architecture and drinking beer on the beach of Hietalahti or taking a ferry to Suomenlinna and having a picnic day there. Linnanmäki amusement park is also nice if you are traveling with children. On Winter I
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️2h$2,683 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI've lived in Munich for six months during my Erasmus internship. It is a great place to live generally, offering high quality of life, and it would hands down be the best city to live in Germany if: -It wasn't expensive af, especially rent prices -It wasn't almost impossible to find a place to rent (like literally the only way to find is through acquaintances) -Bavaria was less bureaucratic and more tech-progressive -It had more... young people; much of the youth there is because of the two of
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