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| ⭐️ Total score | 204 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Hohhot 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 + 😊 Comfy (42%) = feels 7°C 45°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 137 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 69 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.57 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 157 |
| 💸 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 |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,900,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,507 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,023 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,652 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $758 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $303 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $78 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $557 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $26 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1 listings) | $1,459 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $48 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $6 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 14-10° freezing | 16-9° freezing | 341° cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 6619° mild | 457° cold | 0° freezing | 18-8° freezing |
| Real | 18-8° freezing | 20-7° freezing | 373° very cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 468° cold | 341° very cold | 18-8° freezing |
| Humidity | too dry 23% | nice 36% | nice 30% | nice 38% | too dry 25% | nice 46% | nice 58% | nice 61% | nice 46% | nice 48% | nice 49% | nice 54% |
| Rain | dry 0mm | dry 2mm | dry 5mm | dry 19mm | dry 10mm | rainy 123mm | dry 43mm | rainy 81mm | dry 31mm | dry 14mm | dry 13mm | dry 6mm |
| Cloud | pockets 36% | pockets 47% | pockets 14% | pockets 45% | pockets 45% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 51% | pockets 42% | pockets 29% | pockets 21% | pockets 32% | pockets 21% |
| Air quality | bad 120 US AQI | bad 100 US AQI | okay 90 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 98 US AQI | bad 111 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 6° 43° 9° 49°AQI 24✈️8h$3,721 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 15✈️10h$4,718 / mo🌇 Also went here2 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 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 20✈️10h$4,303 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI live here in Dublin and I disagree you should stay in Ballymun or Finglas. These places are dangerous. Very. Mobile operator Three is terrible. Vodafone tends to be a bit more expensive but to support your work it is the only one I recommend. Dublin and the whole of Ireland is charming and fun. It is not cheap. You will not regret coming over.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 42✈️12h$2,861 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peoplePros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 24✈️12h$2,043 / mo🌇 Also went here2 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.
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