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| ⭐️ Total score | 42 reviews |
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| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 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 | Oceania |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 38 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (80%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 5 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 23 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Hawaii Tech Works |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Hawaii Maker |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Hilo Sharks Coffee |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Just Cruisin Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Ken's House of Pancakes |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 45,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 63% 👱♀️ 38% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Trulia |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hawaiian |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hilo Medical Center |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,008 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,037 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,735 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,638 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,371 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $4,002 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,096 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $158 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $131 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $218 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $19 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $7 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ 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
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm |
| Real | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm |
| Humidity | nice 78% | nice 78% | nice 82% | nice 75% | nice 80% | nice 79% | nice 82% | nice 79% | nice 80% | nice 79% | nice 74% | nice 80% |
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| Rain | rainy 283mm | rainy 229mm | rainy 435mm | rainy 139mm | rainy 130mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 152mm | rainy 125mm | rainy 159mm | rainy 222mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 395mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 64% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 74% |
| Air quality | clean 25 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI | clean 19 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 333 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 250 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 42✈️6h$5,600 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleOverall, a pretty great place. Good restaurants and many breweries. Solid entertainment. It has all four seasons and lots of sunshine. Some homelessness issues downtown, like most cities.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 4° 39° 5° 41°AQI 34✈️7h$3,888 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI stayed here for 6 months and I absolutely love Mexico City. The life is comfortable if you stay in the bubbles, namely Roma Norte, Condesa and Polanco, but the living cost has increased 30% since last year, due to the inflation and skyrocketing mexican pesos. Mexican people are so friendly and I never had any safety issues. Definitely will be back in the future.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 64°AQI 52😷✈️8h$1,950 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleNew York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 8° 46° 9° 49°AQI 33✈️10h$7,576 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleI give the city a 6.5/10. Pro: - Walkable - Good selection of accomodation in relatively cheap in popular places - Great weekend trips nearby like Huacachina and Canta - Peruvian food is great - Great internet Cons: - More expensive than other places in Latin America except lunch. - Service in bars is much slower here than Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. - A lot of honking with cars. - You can some times feel a bit limited to only Peruvian food and Chinese. It is a big cit
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 53😷✈️12h$1,301 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleGreat for tourism, bad for living. The City has a fascinating contrast of old and new. You will never get bored, it’s easy to meet people and have fun. Infrastructure and food are great. Thai people are friendly and welcoming, even when it not always feels genuine. With that said, it’s not a good city for long term living. It’s too hot and humid. Felt air temperature is between 37°C-45°C almost year round during the day. It’s makes all outdoor activity unpleasant. Getting your daily d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 31° 87°🥵AQI 147😷✈️15h$1,428 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleI find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 34✈️16h$6,035 / mo🌇 Also went here26 peopleBA is the safest city in the world, just after Tijuana and Caracas! But if you ask the local Porteños, they'll assure you Argentina is THE BEST around the globe, whatever the matter in discussion. :-D With all the slums, poverty and ignorant population, a true 3rd world country, made of rude people, they didn't need to be so ridiculously arrogant. 😅
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 46✈️16h$1,658 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleI 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”.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 7° 44°AQI 102😷✈️16h$5,094 / mo🌇 Also went here26 peopleOnce 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 19✈️17h$3,367 / mo🌇 Also went here17 peoplePros: Weather is great and apartments are excellent. Cons: City is dirty including the beaches. Locals are extremely hostile, unfriendly and confrontational. There isn't a huge amount of good things to do in the city - most things are mediocre. People constantly bash into you in the street. Food and coffee is very average. Crime is awful - my apartment was broken into and my suitcase got stolen from the baggage belt at the airport. Air quality is terrible.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 46✈️17h$3,846 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
