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| ⭐️ Total score | 241 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Hangzhou is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 8°C 47°F + 💦 Damp (90%) = feels 8°C 46°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 183 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 100 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.58 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 158 |
| 💸 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 |
| ♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 900,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 17,248 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,500,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 13x13m (169m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Eastern |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | North American International Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,389 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $919 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,452 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $415 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $316 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $129 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $842 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $39 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 69 listings) | $1,846 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $61 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 489° cold | 468° cold | 6317° cool | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 9032° hot | 10440° hot | 11546° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 5412° cool |
| Real | 489° cold | 468° cold | 6116° cool | 7122° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 5412° cool |
| Humidity | damp 76% | damp 80% | damp 73% | nice 72% | nice 64% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 77% | nice 76% | nice 71% | damp 71% |
| Rain | dry 31mm | rainy 67mm | dry 49mm | dry 49mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 65mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 84mm | dry 24mm | dry 13mm | dry 14mm | dry 36mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 59% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 69% | pockets 46% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 81% | pockets 39% | pockets 24% | cloudy 63% | pockets 44% | pockets 46% |
| Air quality | bad 152 US AQI | bad 144 US AQI | bad 139 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 106 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 94 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 133 US AQI | bad 155 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 280 people | 400 people | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 250 people | 200 people | 200 people |
Based on Hangzhou's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 68✈️3h$969 / mo9MbpsTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 50✈️24h$1,568 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 59✈️1h$1,210 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 76😷✈️1h$1,755 / mo⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 168😷✈️11min$1,637 / mo1MbpsI lived and worked (at a law firm) in Chengdu for about 3 months. I absolutely loved the city! It's so different from east coast China, especially given the Tibetan influences in many areas. I had a company arrange my apartment and registrations, but was a seamless process. I am a white, American male who speaks a decent bit of Mandarin, and I found the locals to be incredibly hospitable. China is general is extremely affordable for a Westerner, and Chengdu offers the luxuries of any large, West
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 40°AQI 7✈️12h$3,434 / mo16MbpsShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 134😷✈️15min$2,038 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 23✈️48min$2,217 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI've been living for a year in Itaewon-dong, Seoul back in 2015 when i was 22 years old. It was one of the best year of my life, i made lifelong friends overthere. Great culture, great food, great people. The cons : no beach, ultra-capitalist environment, big city life downside (transportation, prices etc...)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 3° 37° 3° 38°AQI 129😷✈️1h$2,187 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 66✈️1h$2,582 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleDefinitely 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 1° 34° 3° 37°AQI 34✈️1h$2,646 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 63✈️3h$999 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleOnly thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 68✈️3h$969 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 74✈️4h$1,343 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 29° 84°🥵AQI 21✈️5h$1,247 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87°🥵AQI 25✈️5h$3,164 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 58✈️6h$1,297 / mo🌇 Also went here17 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 5° 40°AQI 73✈️12h$4,505 / mo🌇 Also went here16 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 4° 39° 4° 39°AQI 93😷✈️12h$4,337 / 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 4° 39° 4° 39°AQI 102😷✈️12h$4,083 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 1° 34°AQI 50✈️16h$4,715 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
