⭐️ Total score | 2.74/5 (Rank #621) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,705 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 53Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 16°C61°F (feels 17°C63°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 45% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 17 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 31 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 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 |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 14 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 53 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 16°C 61°F + 😊 Comfy (45%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 32 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Union Coffee |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 290,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Moses Cone Health System |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,705 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,333 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,788 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,368 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,526 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,317 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $970 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $71 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $76 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $323 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $19 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $35,000 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $22 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ 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+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 457° cold | 436° cold | 6116° cool | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 8831° hot | 9736° hot | 9736° hot | 8228° warm | 7222° mild | 5513° cool | 6116° cool |
Real | 468° cold | 457° cold | 5915° cool | 6921° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 7926° warm | 7222° mild | 5513° cool | 5915° cool |
Humidity | damp 71% | damp 74% | nice 50% | nice 54% | nice 63% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 74% | nice 69% | nice 78% | nice 56% | nice 62% |
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Rain | rainy 96mm | rainy 169mm | rainy 143mm | rainy 57mm | dry 43mm | rainy 53mm | rainy 155mm | rainy 113mm | rainy 105mm | rainy 58mm | dry 6mm | dry 37mm |
Cloud | pockets 46% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 51% | pockets 36% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 53% | pockets 35% | pockets 34% | pockets 24% | pockets 47% | pockets 25% | pockets 44% |
Air quality | clean 25 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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It's like Denver, but with less hippies, style and outdoorsy people. Most of the city is suburban, and most of the people are basic. Culture and art, while improving, are still undeveloped. As a city, Charlotte seems like a pre-teen still coming-of-age. Not yet cool, but it has potential to get there eventually.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 30✈️12min$4,563 / mo46Mbps×Absolutely LOVE Asheville. So much, that it's now my home base. Beautiful scenery, great hikes, and one of the best food & art scenes in the US. If you're debating visiting, just do it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 5✈️20min$3,915 / mo50Mbps×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✈️5h$5,653 / mo101Mbps×Gili Air is a wonderful tropical island with good enough internet, amazing beaches and affordable accommodation and food. The locals are super friendly and it's super safe. There is a party and live music every night for those that feel like socialising(with the exception of Thursday nights). There's a well equipped gym, Salsa dancing Night every Monday at the schick-kitsch mexican restaurant, stand up paddle, lots of wonderful yoga shalas, kite surfing, snorkelling, diving and lots of food opti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 75😷✈️22h$1,648 / mo17Mbps×Family and church are the main criteria for fitting in. Northerners - Yankees - are still regarded askance. Explosive college population arrives each fall, Tybee is expensive and crowded in summer. Great eateries. Good music scene. BRING LOTSA BUG SPRAY - if the mosquitoes don't get y'all the sand gnats will.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 69😷✈️37min$3,678 / mo49Mbps×It's like Denver, but with less hippies, style and outdoorsy people. Most of the city is suburban, and most of the people are basic. Culture and art, while improving, are still undeveloped. As a city, Charlotte seems like a pre-teen still coming-of-age. Not yet cool, but it has potential to get there eventually.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 30✈️12min$4,563 / mo46Mbps×Boston is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the capital of the state, the largest city in New England, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The city proper is home to about 617,900 people, making it the largest city in New England and the 26th largest in the United States.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 23✈️1h$5,568 / mo39Mbps×I really enjoyed my trip to DC for one week. I did NOT feel comfortable walking around many places alone because there are a lot of mentally ill/drugged out people. During daylight with other people I felt fine. There are soo many restaurants, interesting boutique gyms, cool libraries and more. The variety you can find in DC is closer to NYC than you can find most places. The memorials are pretty cool. There are a lot of free museums which are impressive. I liked the Lincoln Memorial/Gettysburg
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 9✈️32min$5,001 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people×Boston is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the capital of the state, the largest city in New England, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The city proper is home to about 617,900 people, making it the largest city in New England and the 26th largest in the United States.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 23✈️1h$5,568 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×I've been to New Orleans plenty of time as a tourist, but this is my first time being a digital nomad and working down here for 3 weeks. Something about New Orleans always brings me back. Such a unique and one-of-a-kind place that while has gotten more expensive over the years, still is far more affordable than many places in the US. A lot of cheap good fun to have here and some amazing food. I will admit your safety factor will depend heavily on the area you're staying at.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 42✈️2h$4,969 / mo🌇 Also went here3 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 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 53°AQI 34✈️5h$5,653 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 50✈️9h$4,063 / mo🌇 Also went here2 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 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 15✈️9h$4,998 / mo🌇 Also went here4 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
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