⭐️ Total score | 2.3/5 (Rank #1172) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😳 Way too expensive: $5,294 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 53Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 7°C45°F (feels 7°C45°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 85% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 8 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 22 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 | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 53 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 7°C 45°F + 💦 Damp (85%) = feels 7°C 45°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 8 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 23 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Theo's Coffee House |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 170,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Southwest |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,294 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,840 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,437 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,553 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,464 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,618 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $981 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $209 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $119 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $20 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
👩🏫 International school | $10,750 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $10 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $6 / trip |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ 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
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 5010° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 5915° cool | 5513° cool | 457° cold |
Real | 5010° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 6016° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7424° warm | 5915° cool | 5513° cool | 468° cold |
Humidity | damp 84% | damp 83% | damp 76% | nice 63% | nice 68% | nice 64% | nice 60% | nice 62% | nice 65% | damp 81% | damp 85% | damp 85% |
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Rain | rainy 168mm | rainy 162mm | rainy 73mm | dry 22mm | dry 48mm | dry 36mm | dry 1mm | dry 2mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 90mm | rainy 126mm | rainy 225mm |
Cloud | cloudy 83% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 61% | pockets 41% | cloudy 58% | pockets 33% | clear 9% | pockets 29% | pockets 31% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 89% |
Air quality | clean 23 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 333 people | 200 people | 280 people | 250 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 7° 44°AQI 17✈️13min$4,357 / mo81Mbps×Very underrated city for remote work. One of the cheapest cities to live in CA, great lifestyle with Sac river, hiking, fishing, outdoor activities, one hour from Lassen National Park, one hour from Mt Shasta. And still only a three hour drive from the Bay Area for meetings etc. Growing business/startup scene too. Lots of young people with a number of schools bringing internationals through every year. Definitely worth checking out.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 46✈️31min$3,892 / mo42Mbps×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 53°AQI 34✈️56min$5,653 / mo101Mbps×Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 13✈️32min$5,600 / mo35Mbps×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 36✈️2h$5,343 / mo95Mbps×Pros: Food carts, local microbrews, lots of outdoor activities within day trip range, high property values. Cons: trash everywhere, out of control crime, violent drug-addicted "houseless" everywhere, mediocre public schools, some of the highest taxes in the country, ineffective police force, antiquated inefficient form of city government, very high rents, passive aggressive culture.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 62😷✈️2h$4,218 / mo60Mbps×I grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 46✈️31min$3,892 / mo42Mbps×Pros: Food carts, local microbrews, lots of outdoor activities within day trip range, high property values. Cons: trash everywhere, out of control crime, violent drug-addicted "houseless" everywhere, mediocre public schools, some of the highest taxes in the country, ineffective police force, antiquated inefficient form of city government, very high rents, passive aggressive culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 6° 43° 7° 44°AQI 17✈️13min$4,357 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 44✈️4h$4,472 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×Stayed in for a month and it was enough for me. Pros: -Great weather. -Great Restaurant scene -Amazing areas to walk around and super green for a major city -Lots to do, was never bored here -Good healthcare -Good shopping Cons: -The pollution is quite bad and very noisy - Cost, one of the most expensive places in Latin America, maybe Cancun & Cabo are the only places more expensive -The traffic was probably the worst I have ever witnessed, very chaotic. -Starting to become westernised so a
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 53😷✈️5h$1,926 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×I guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 30✈️11h$5,980 / mo🌇 Also went here29 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 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 5° 41° 7° 45°AQI 47✈️11h$5,560 / mo🌇 Also went here26 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 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 15✈️11h$5,007 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×I love BA! And I wanted to say that you can use Visa card and get the "blue" dollar rate, that's been happening for one year now. Also you can withdraw and change money in WU at a good rate. You won't have a problem with paying by card in most of the places.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 65😷✈️15h$1,691 / 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 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 80°🥵AQI 58😷✈️16h$1,019 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×Great for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 31° 88°🥵AQI 77😷✈️16h$1,409 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×