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| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 236 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
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| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 61 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌥 27°C 81°F + 💦 Humid (83%) + 💨 6km/h = feels like 31°C 88°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 59 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 66 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | AT&T |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Start Houston |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Paper Co. Coffee |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Boomtown Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Southside Espresso |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 16% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,500,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 28,747 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,300,000 people |
| 😤 People density | 🧘♀️ empty: 1,200 ppl/km² 29x29m (841m²) space per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | American Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | US Airways |
| 🏥 Best hospital | The Menninger Clinic |
| golfno-beachairportwarm nowwarmhotfast internethigh cost of livinghigh humidityfreedom of pressdemocracyfreedommany menfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $3,449 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,671 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,983 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,709 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,360 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $199 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,380 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $65 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (490 listings) | $3,264 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $107 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $12 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
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| Feels like | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 8630° very warm | 9937° hot | 11848° scorching | 11747° scorching | 12451° scorching | 11546° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 7222° mild |
| Real temperature | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 8630° very warm | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9234° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild |
| Humidity | comfy 76% | comfy 88% | comfy 78% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 77% | comfy 75% | comfy 74% |
| Rain | rainy 82mm | rainy 57mm | not rainy 33mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 303mm | rainy 192mm | rainy 119mm | rainy 188mm | rainy 170mm | rainy 107mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 58mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 44% | overcast 90% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 55% | pockets 34% | pockets 27% | pockets 25% | pockets 17% | pockets 35% | cloudy 52% | pockets 36% |
| Air quality | clean 24 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 33 AQI | clean 30 AQI | clean 29 AQI | clean 20 AQI | clean 25 AQI | clean 35 AQI |
| UV Index | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI |
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✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Many nomads have been
✅ 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
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBT friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many nomads right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
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