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| ⭐️ Overall score | 194 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ 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* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Ecuador |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 76°F + 😊 Comfy (81%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Claro |
| 💸 10 USD in USD | USD 8.42 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | USD 100 = USD 84 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Hernan |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 16,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $5,982 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | LAN Ecuador |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €1,147 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €886 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,694 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €484 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €433 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €56 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €698 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €33 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (43 listings) | €1,545 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €51 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0.42 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm |
| Real | 8127° warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 88% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 89% | nice 89% | nice 88% | nice 92% | nice 89% | nice 89% | nice 88% | nice 90% |
| Rain | dry 26mm | dry 30mm | dry 8mm | dry 19mm | dry 3mm | dry 34mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 4mm | dry 3mm | dry 3mm |
| Cloud | pockets 42% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 60% | pockets 50% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 51% |
| Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 350 people | 533 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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