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| ⭐️ Total score | 205 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Netherlands |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 29 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌦 14°C 58°F + 💦 Damp (84%) = feels 13°C 55°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 15 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Lebara |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 116 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because Albert Heijn still doesn't accept CC) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Anne&Max Haarlem |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 19% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 160,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $45,753 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 14x14m (196m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Cool Blue |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | KLM |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | KLM |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,439 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,735 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,403 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,258 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $827 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $205 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,708 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $127 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (32 listings) | $4,284 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $140 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $18 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ 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+
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 373° cold | 457° cold | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 5513° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 436° cold | 415° cold |
| Real | 436° very cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5614° cool | 5714° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 468° cold |
| Humidity | damp 73% | damp 75% | damp 75% | nice 64% | nice 70% | nice 71% | nice 73% | nice 73% | damp 74% | damp 82% | damp 82% | damp 81% |
| Rain | dry 24mm | dry 25mm | dry 49mm | dry 22mm | dry 17mm | rainy 205mm | dry 28mm | dry 30mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 71mm | dry 47mm | dry 40mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 88% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 72% | pockets 41% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 79% |
| Air quality | clean 18 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 267 people | 200 people | 0 people | 800 people | 400 people | 200 people | 500 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
Based on Haarlem's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 24🚕15min$4,863 / mo49MbpsHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 17🚕36min$4,691 / mo21MbpsI study in Leiden, and I love it here! The city is beautiful, and quaint enough that you can bike from end to end in 10-15 minutes. Because it's a student town there's also a lot to do here, even for non-students. By West-European standards the prices are reasonable. Pretty much everyone speaks English fairly well, and Dutch is not too hard to pick up on. The location of Leiden in the Netherlands is also neat: 10 min by train to The Hague, 20-ish to Schiphol Airport, 30 min to Rotterdam, 40-ish
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 32🚕54min$4,328 / mo38Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 25🚕1h$4,168 / mo28Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 18🚕1h$3,426 / mo73Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 29🚕1h$3,664 / mo32Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 19🚕2h$3,740 / mo40MbpsGreat city, but not for nomads. If you want to come here, come here for a week, that's more than enough to see all the interesting parts of the city. Best place for beers: Kaapse Brouwers.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 24🚕2h$3,932 / mo36Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 22🚕2h$3,464 / mo43Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 12° 54° 14° 58°AQI 16🚕3h$4,372 / mo56Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 19🚕3h$4,389 / mo38Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 24🚕3h$4,021 / mo47Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 25✈️26min$4,781 / mo38MbpsI must be alone on this one; but I did 2 weeks in CDMX and it wasn't great for me. First of all, it was CHILLY in the mornings and at night (late August - Early Sept). And to stay in the nicer and convenient neighborhoods, which you kind of have to in CDMX or you will be bothered, the airbnbs were pricey, and nearby restaurants too. Sidewalks very small and cramped. The vendors and police were a bit aggressive here. The nightlife was a bit dull to me, limited to just a few places. The green park
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 57✈️12h$1,508 / mo20MbpsHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 17🚕36min$4,691 / mo21MbpsManchester is a working town, but has much going on in the weekend days. Well connected by train for the rest of England as well as cheap flights to Ireland and London if needed. National Football Museum, arcades, and high end and low end food for any budget.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 20✈️38min$3,238 / mo26Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 19🚕2h$3,740 / mo40MbpsGreat city, but not for nomads. If you want to come here, come here for a week, that's more than enough to see all the interesting parts of the city. Best place for beers: Kaapse Brouwers.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 24🚕2h$3,932 / mo36MbpsAlthough I would not praise Cologne as the top destination for digital nomads I have certain doubts about some negative aspects listed here. Hospitals: How can hospitals be pretty bad if Germany has one of the best medical systems in the world? This judgments compares it with remote 3rd world cities which is by definition not logical. Germany, and therefore also Cologne, has most likely the best emergency system in the world (ambulance must arrive within max. 12 minutes - independent of traffi
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 58°AQI 19✈️18min$2,496 / mo31MbpsEdinburgh is one of my favorite cities and I've spent quite a bit of time here. It's charming, friendly, beautiful, and walkable, and has a range of cafes and coffeeshops with fast wifi. The downsides: it's pretty expensive (housing especially), and there doesn't seem to be much of a nomad scene. The general tech scene seems to be smallish but growing (CodeBase seems cool), but not many nomads seem to come here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 24✈️52min$3,956 / mo26MbpsI was told I was staying in an insecure part of the city by a local, but I really, truly didn't notice anything too sketchy. Walked down some bad roads, but no one tended much to be on them.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 46✈️12h$1,057 / mo9MbpsDefinitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 35✈️10h$2,459 / mo2MbpsI wanted to like Barcelona but the rampant robberies just really caste a dark cloud over my 6 weeks there. Usually it is non-violent pick pocketing, but there are cases where it is much uglier than that.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 30✈️2h$3,016 / mo34MbpsRead the review that starts "I live here and I can tell you that many of the stats listed are wrong" - its spot on accurate I will add to that - Vancouver is brain-numbingly boring and dead. There is noticeable and toxic mix of pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers. Mix in a very Vancouver trait of entitlement, and watch the the passive aggression fly. Vancouverites generally are a cold bunch making it difficult for newcomers. Worst of all they believe in their own created hype that live in
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 11✈️10h$3,553 / mo30MbpsHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 17🚕36min$4,691 / mo🌇 Also went here22 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 25✈️26min$4,781 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 52✈️27min$4,306 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 37✈️34min$3,914 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleEdinburgh is one of my favorite cities and I've spent quite a bit of time here. It's charming, friendly, beautiful, and walkable, and has a range of cafes and coffeeshops with fast wifi. The downsides: it's pretty expensive (housing especially), and there doesn't seem to be much of a nomad scene. The general tech scene seems to be smallish but growing (CodeBase seems cool), but not many nomads seem to come here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 15° 58°AQI 24✈️52min$3,956 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 29✈️55min$3,838 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleLjubljana (and Slovenia in general) is an AMAZING place. I cannot recommend it enough. All I ask is - please don't write public blogs and make vlogs about it. It is still sort of undiscovered except among Europeans and mostly Italians. Let's try and keep it that way as long as possible.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 78😷✈️1h$2,201 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleI wanted to like Barcelona but the rampant robberies just really caste a dark cloud over my 6 weeks there. Usually it is non-violent pick pocketing, but there are cases where it is much uglier than that.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 30✈️2h$3,016 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI was born and raised in Belgrade and all I can say is the city is very underrated. Been to many major cities in Europe, Northern Africa, and also lived for half a year in Los Angeles. I don't wanna sound as if I'm a big local patriot. I will try to be as much as genuine as possible. I completely agree with the fact that most places are full of smoke from cigarettes yet there are parts of the objects separated from smoking sections. This is available in many restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. You
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 72✈️2h$1,530 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleSpent 4 months in Istanbul. Lovely city. Lots of things to do, cafes to work from, historical sites and nice parks. Might be chaotic at times but its part of its charm. Pros: Everything is really cheap from food, groceries, clothes, etc. The only unusually pricey thing is alcohol. Rent prices are skyrocketing too I found Turkish people to be really nice. Some of them went out the extra mile to help me out with mundane things. The tea culture and community feeling of every street is awesome too
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 18✈️3h$998 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 35° 95° 31° 88°🥵AQI 74✈️7h$3,365 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleOrlando has lots to do, but it is very spaced out and requires a car to get around. This fact is obvious by the constant traffic. The airport has great access, but is always extremely busy. Visit a few times to see Disney and Universal, but there are many other cities I'd prefer to live and spend more time in.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82°🥵AQI 22✈️10h$3,275 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleI am a UK born, East Asian female who lived in Joburg (alone) as an expat for a few years... and I really love it. Yes, there are safety concerns so you must take precautions, however, I found the locals to be extremely warm and friendly (the one thing I wasn't expecting when I arrived), the weather is spot on, it's very cheap, good quality new build apartments in places like Sandton, Rosebank, Parkhurt, Bryanston etc and AMAZING quality restaurants e.g you can get an excellent fillet steak and
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 66✈️12h$1,969 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleI must be alone on this one; but I did 2 weeks in CDMX and it wasn't great for me. First of all, it was CHILLY in the mornings and at night (late August - Early Sept). And to stay in the nicer and convenient neighborhoods, which you kind of have to in CDMX or you will be bothered, the airbnbs were pricey, and nearby restaurants too. Sidewalks very small and cramped. The vendors and police were a bit aggressive here. The nightlife was a bit dull to me, limited to just a few places. The green park
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 57✈️12h$1,508 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleI stayed in Cape Town for 5 months and loved every minute of it. The work life balance is fantastic, after work there's the beach or countless options to walk or hike, everything accessible from the middle of the city. Wifi is so so, but never had an issue to work with a sim card / mobile phone hotspot as a backup. So many great restaurants and coffee shops. I mostly worked from coffee shops, but there are also lots of co working spaces. Safety is an issue, yes, but you just have to be smart (ie
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 43✈️13h$1,745 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
