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| ⭐️ Total score | 211 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😄 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 | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Foshan is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 28°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 65 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 97.5 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.48 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 148 |
| 💸 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 | 770,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 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 | $1,316 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $944 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,744 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $784 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $474 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $74 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $647 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $30 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 18 listings) | $977 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $32 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably 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
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 11144° scorching | 10943° scorching | 11144° scorching | 11345° scorching | 11144° scorching | 8228° warm | 7524° warm | 7021° mild |
| Real | 6820° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 9133° hot | 8932° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 6820° mild |
| Humidity | nice 47% | nice 62% | nice 73% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 75% | nice 73% | nice 62% | nice 64% |
| Rain | dry 7mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 50mm | rainy 100mm | rainy 178mm | rainy 243mm | rainy 131mm | rainy 231mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 227mm | dry 9mm | dry 50mm |
| Cloud | pockets 46% | pockets 27% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 78% | overcast 94% | cloudy 78% | overcast 90% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 63% | pockets 44% |
| Air quality | bad 123 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | bad 110 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 74 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 98 US AQI | bad 110 US AQI | bad 127 US AQI | bad 117 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 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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