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| ⭐️ Total score | 5 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Africa |
| 🚩 Country | South Sudan |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (82%) = feels 32°C 90°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 78 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 1,000 SDG in USD | USD 1.76 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | SDG 100,000 = USD 176 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Da Vinci |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 230,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $534 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 64% 👱♀️ 36% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 0% 👱♀️ 100% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Kenya Airways |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Aspen Medical Clinic Juba |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,985 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,571 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,955 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $844 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,485 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,038 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $899 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $210 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $100 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $120 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Expensive
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 10239° hot | 10239° hot | 9736° hot | 9535° hot | 9032° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot |
| Real | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9334° hot |
| Humidity | nice 42% | nice 30% | nice 42% | nice 61% | sweaty 75% | nice 69% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 75% | nice 56% | nice 43% |
| Rain | dry 6mm | dry 2mm | dry 34mm | rainy 105mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 92mm | rainy 176mm | rainy 179mm | rainy 219mm | rainy 156mm | dry 36mm | dry 16mm |
| Cloud | pockets 43% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 65% |
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I love Kampala! I have been coming here since 10 years now as a digital nomad. I am here a few times a year. I have been in 20 countries in Africa and would say it is the most friendly one. Kampala is definitely a lot of fun and has good restaurants and the rest of Uganda is beautiful too. I host several times a year coworking and co-living experiences for digital nomads in Uganda. You are more than welcome to join us.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 112😷✈️41min$1,436 / mo2MbpsI've spent a total of ~2 months in Kigali. Pros: very safe, pretty affordable, very pretty, hospitable people, great coffee. Cons: a bit dull, culture is very insular (respectful but quite conservative), food is bad, police state vibes are kind of weird. A certain kind of person who doesn't care about nightlife at all, is open to experiencing a foreign culture that's more inward-oriented, and wants to live a really chill lifestyle in a green, pleasant city would really like it. I personally need
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 112😷✈️1h$2,122 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 78😷✈️1h$1,775 / moLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 88😷✈️1h$1,692 / mo8MbpsPros: - I loved the inejra - Weather was nice - The home country for my parents, so it felt nice being able to just blend in, compared to living in western countries. - The USD goes a long way Cons: Coming from a western perspective, life in here in Addis Ababa is just unnecessarily difficult. Day to day things are filled with an absurd amount of inefficiencies that I often wonder how things get done at all. - The pedestrian infrastructure is completely lacking with uneven sidewalks & lack
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 59✈️1h$1,666 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 35° 96°🥵AQI 50✈️2h$923 / mo1MbpsI enjoyed the beaches in Diani, Kilifi, and Watamu. However, Mombasa island is not a very enjoyable place to be and I would recommend only staying there the night before an early departure.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 83°🥵AQI 98😷✈️2h$1,438 / mo8Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 34° 93°🥵AQI 59✈️2h$4,293 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 59✈️2h$1,972 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 53✈️2h$2,085 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 35° 95° 30° 85°🥵AQI 30✈️2h$1,915 / moGreat city, great weather, many parties, many different beaches, quite safe in the international neighborhoods, not too expensive and decent internet
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°AQI 88😷✈️2h$1,628 / mo1MbpsI love Kampala! I have been coming here since 10 years now as a digital nomad. I am here a few times a year. I have been in 20 countries in Africa and would say it is the most friendly one. Kampala is definitely a lot of fun and has good restaurants and the rest of Uganda is beautiful too. I host several times a year coworking and co-living experiences for digital nomads in Uganda. You are more than welcome to join us.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 112😷✈️41min$1,436 / mo2MbpsTouristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 55✈️17h$2,453 / mo6MbpsLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 88😷✈️1h$1,692 / mo8MbpsI love Kampala! I have been coming here since 10 years now as a digital nomad. I am here a few times a year. I have been in 20 countries in Africa and would say it is the most friendly one. Kampala is definitely a lot of fun and has good restaurants and the rest of Uganda is beautiful too. I host several times a year coworking and co-living experiences for digital nomads in Uganda. You are more than welcome to join us.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 112😷✈️41min$1,436 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleLived in Nairobi off and on since 2019. I think it's an excellent place to live. Weather is phenomenal, between 20-27C most of the time. People are super friendly and it's very cosmopolitan (attracts people from all over Kenya, Africa and the world). For Africa it's relatively progressive and I'm not sure why it gets a "not safe for women" (IME it's not perfect but no worse than many other countries around the world and much less regressive than Middle East, South Asia, etc.) It's an excellent j
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 88😷✈️1h$1,692 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peoplePros: - I loved the inejra - Weather was nice - The home country for my parents, so it felt nice being able to just blend in, compared to living in western countries. - The USD goes a long way Cons: Coming from a western perspective, life in here in Addis Ababa is just unnecessarily difficult. Day to day things are filled with an absurd amount of inefficiencies that I often wonder how things get done at all. - The pedestrian infrastructure is completely lacking with uneven sidewalks & lack
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 59✈️1h$1,666 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleI've spent 4 years in Istanbul, it was one of my best experience. I met amazing people, but also a loooooot (looooot) of scams even from people I considered friends. So be careful of whom you trust there, but instead of that it is a magical city, always something to do, very beautiful, and affordable, and as a women I felt very safe there (learnt turkish but even before that I felt safe)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 35✈️5h$2,103 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleJust came back from my second proper trip to Copenhagen. Now, I've been there in February and August, which is a huge contrast in this city. Winter: Copenhagen is great for cafes, working in them and experiencing the "hygge" (coziness) lifestyle. Why? Because the weather is so cold, windy and partly rainy that you just don't want to spend time outside. If you have someone to cuddle with, I highly recommend going there in Winter. Summer: Just amazing. If the weather is good you have several
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 15° 59° 16° 60°AQI 39✈️8h$5,743 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleSummers in Tallinn are very pleasant (if not the best, tbh). There is no need for a car or a bus to move from one point to another in the city center. I've been working in Maakri area, which is local City. Really loved my time here, especially variety of quality food options available. My favourite upscale place to eat was FARM restaurant, which is a gem of a resto located in the beginning of Tallinn's Old Town. The restaurant is also the only provence style restaurant in the country, according
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 10✈️8h$2,496 / 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!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 20✈️8h$3,857 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI've been there in summer. I don't understand why the rate of walkability is bad, that is ridiculous. People are friendly and polite, if you want to find a job is easy, although opening a bank account to get your salary can take two months. There are plenty of coffees, restaurants and bars, often you need to book in advance (more if the weather is good), and they will rip you off. I knew this, and I went there with the plan of no-eating out, no coffee-out and no-party, but even the supermarket i
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 16✈️8h$4,981 / 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 20✈️15h$6,600 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 20° 68° 20° 67°AQI 54✈️16h$5,242 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI've stayed in Merida for about 10 weeks now. It's a cute sleepy city with a good amount of restaurants and museums/history if you're into that sort of stuff. I cannot speak about the nightlife because I'm here during Covid times and the lockdown is real. The city is flat as a pancake, so if you're into cycling, this is a great city for you. The heat in this city is oppressive starting in March through the end of October. I've asked many locals why they come here and their number one respons
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 17✈️17h$1,604 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleIn it's current iteration, Houston is a wide-spread, vehicle dependent city and would be a difficult place to exist as a Nomad without a vehicle. Downtown Houston was once a desolate cluster of office buildings that was abandoned at sundown. But now, downtown is currently undergoing a transformation and will soon (5~ years) make for an inhabitable and nomad friendly destination.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 1✈️18h$3,554 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleAntigua is amazing, very safe and lots of amazing food to eat out at. Internet at the Airbnb was laggy at times, but some places might have better connections.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 55✈️18h$1,621 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleI really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 80😷✈️19h$1,735 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleHow did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 25✈️19h$6,765 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
