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| ⭐️ Overall score | 217 reviews |
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| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Malaysia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 18 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (95%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 68 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Hotlink |
| 💸 10 MYR in USD | USD 2.00 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MYR 1,000 = USD 200 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | San Francisco Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Incubator4U |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 660,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $9,508 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | KMC MEDICAL CENTRE |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €945 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €635 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,399 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €400 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €200 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €98 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €315 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €15 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (234 listings) | €912 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €30 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 9736° hot | 9937° hot | 10239° hot | 10641° scorching | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot | 9937° hot |
| Real | 8429° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8530° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8329° very warm | 8429° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 89% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 88% | sweaty 92% | sweaty 90% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 92% | sweaty 93% | sweaty 94% | sweaty 92% |
| Rain | rainy 52mm | dry 46mm | dry 47mm | rainy 63mm | dry 42mm | rainy 97mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 50mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 140mm | rainy 94mm | rainy 71mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 81% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 65% |
| Air quality | okay 50 US AQI | okay 61* US AQI | okay 61* US AQI | okay 61* US AQI | okay 61* US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 67 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 267 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 68✈️24min€816 / mo20MbpsIt's basically a party island -- getting work done will require discipline. One who can accomplish that will be rewarded with a paradisiac cheerful enviroment where everyone wants to be happy and enjoy life. In long term, be careful with your emotional life, as new flows of people everyday going in and out might unbalance your way to see the world.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 34✈️1h€1,149 / mo🌇 Also went here12 peopleSiem Riep has a nice suburb feeling. At first sight it seems there's not much to do besides Angkor Wat and Pub Street, but you can go swimming, do bicycle tours, floating village day trip... I don't have best social skill, but in Siem Reap it was so easy to make new friends. Locals and tourists! I've worked at Garage Society Coworking Space. Pretty nice place. I don't understand the cons of slow internet. I've bought an LTE 4G Sim card for 10 USD with 10 GB. There's also free and mostly fast
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 38✈️1h€897 / mo🌇 Also went here11 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 37° 99° 29° 83°🥵AQI 50✈️2h€842 / mo🌇 Also went here13 peopleCheep bear and party place. But only have 3-4 beautiful places to visit. I stayed 5 days and thanks! There are more beautiful places in Asia than Hanoi. I don´t think I come back. Good food and cheap but nothing more..
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 47° 117° 33° 92°🥵AQI 30✈️3h€816 / mo🌇 Also went here9 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
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 27✈️14h€2,707 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people
