⭐️ Total score | 0.5/5 (Rank #1361) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,311 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 1Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C79°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 16% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 109 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | ☠️ Very unhealthy: 309 US AQI |
👌 Safety | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | 🧨 Conflict / political instability* |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Very low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $49 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Afghanistan |
⏱ Average trip length | 14 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 26°C 79°F + 🌵 Too dry (16.2%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 109 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 309 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 AFN in USD | USD 1.16 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AFN 10,000 = USD 116 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | Mal Kabul |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Sufi |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 3,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $584 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 67% 👱♀️ 33% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | http://- |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Flynas |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Fly Emirates |
🏥 Best hospital | Remote Medical Solutions International |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,311 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $641 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,079 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $308 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,484 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,405 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $168 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $70 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $46 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $120 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $1,161 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $4 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | $2 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 415° cold | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 8831° hot | 8228° warm | 7926° warm | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 489° cold |
Real | 415° very cold | 5513° cool | 5714° cool | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 8630° very warm | 8127° warm | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 489° cold |
Humidity | nice 31% | nice 36% | nice 48% | nice 39% | nice 38% | too dry 17% | too dry 26% | too dry 24% | nice 31% | too dry 25% | too dry 29% | nice 30% |
Rain | dry 8mm | dry 15mm | rainy 73mm | dry 38mm | rainy 68mm | dry 4mm | dry 10mm | dry 12mm | dry 3mm | dry 3mm | dry 2mm | dry 8mm |
Cloud | pockets 11% | pockets 23% | cloudy 58% | pockets 34% | pockets 30% | clear 2% | pockets 16% | pockets 12% | clear 4% | clear 5% | pockets 22% | pockets 46% |
Air quality | bad 129 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309 US AQI | bad 309* US AQI | bad 140 US AQI | bad 256 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 800 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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It's a great city to live in, I am a resident here and you have so many options as a nomad. I am working remotely as a Software Engineer and I am free to go anywhere.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 34° 93° 34° 93°🥵AQI 82😷✈️30min$1,158 / mo3Mbps×Sargodha (Punjabi and Urdu: سرگودھا) is a District and capital of Sargodha Division, located in Punjab province, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's 12th largest city by population[14] and one of the fastest-growing cities of the country. Largest producer of Citrus and also known as California of Pakistan. Very good city with great hospitality. Great people. Sargodha is also known as the City of Eagles.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 42° 108° 40° 103°🥵AQI 82😷✈️34min$1,155 / mo1Mbps×Best place for solo travellers. The people here are awesome. Almost no crime against foreigners according to statistics. Give this paradise on earth a try :)
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 57✈️41min$1,125 / mo10Mbps×Pakistani people are amazing and as long as you get enough data on your phone (20GB goes for about 4$) internet is not an issue at all. All hotels have Wi-Fi and even though not always great, generally it's good enough. Like I said, Pakistani people are incredible and the food is super super cheap. You'll have a hard time spending more than 10$ in a day. Next to that, you're gonna be the only foreigner in Lahore, even though it's such a big city. Most people have never seen a foreigner and are
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 39° 102° 39° 103°🥵AQI 341😷✈️47min$792 / mo4Mbps×People either hate this place or love it. I am more on the hating side. Feels fake af, overpriced. The city is either a business downtown, either an outdated fancy chick area, either a slump. And don't get me started on human rights here. I'd visit it for a week or two just as a tourist, but definitely not live here for longer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 33° 91°🥵AQI 169😷✈️2h$3,336 / mo6Mbps×Internet connection is stable. Mobile broadband speed in range of 3-7 Mbps from home (10 km from center of Tashkent), fiber-optics connection is also stable - up to 50 Mbps at the daytime (from 12 pm till 12 am) and up to 200 Mbps at night (from 12 am till 12 pm)
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 38° 100°🥵AQI 25✈️60min$1,053 / mo1Mbps×I've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 12✈️19h$1,109 / mo4Mbps×People either hate this place or love it. I am more on the hating side. Feels fake af, overpriced. The city is either a business downtown, either an outdated fancy chick area, either a slump. And don't get me started on human rights here. I'd visit it for a week or two just as a tourist, but definitely not live here for longer.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 33° 91°🥵AQI 169😷✈️2h$3,336 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×Sitting here laughing out loud at these "been here a few week" reviews where supposedly they could tell it all. You guys obviously don't know the right places, you probably ended up around lower Sukhumvit (with all the mention about hookers and lbs). Don't listen to any of this. I've lived around SEA for 10+ years. Nearly 8 of them in Bangkok. There is a reason I keep coming back. You have: excellent networking, lots of startups, awesome nightlife (if you know where to go!), amazing, internation
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 30° 85°🥵AQI 61✈️5h$1,440 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Beautiful old town and waterfront, but as soon as you leave them it becomes a post-Communist dump. I've had very good internet in airbnbs, and it's quite affordable if you live like a local.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 71°AQI 1✈️6h$3,230 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×I 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!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 16✈️6h$3,345 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 44✈️6h$4,251 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×Very luxurious yet has some parts of the city that are charming and have gothic architecture. A lot of tourists and people from Balkans who work in region. Pretty expensive. If you are not very rich just visit it and choose to stay in some other, more modest german city. In my opinion Frankfurt is city nr 3 in Germany after Berlin and Munich and I have travelled through much of Germany. Hamburg and Cologne are somewhere with the Frankfurt, but Frankfurt is more luxurious.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 42✈️7h$3,488 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 42✈️8h$6,523 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×There's no reason to live in this city. I spent a year here. The weather is not even a bit nicer compared to central-eastern Europe. Maybe when it's -4 degrees in Budapest, it's +1 in Barcelona. That's just as cold. And the insulation in apartments is practically non-existent, as well as AC and heating. If there's heating in an apartment, using it for like 3 hours/day would cost $100 a month. Speaking of apartments, pricing is ridiculous. $1500 + utilities for a 2 bedroom in a neighborhood where
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 18✈️8h$4,768 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×My opinion to this person is: - Please go home and be happy and cheerful! Don’t live at “miserable and depressed (…) population” home. - If you’re only use to eat potatoes + burgers, us, as the rest of the world, we have that too. - Please post your photo, so Portuguese women know from whom they must running from. “Pros: - Plenty of great co-working spaces - Lots of digital nomads - Meetups, tech and crypto conferences Cons: - Everything is severely overpriced from food to rents (
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 17✈️9h$3,971 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×The wifi conection on all the island maybe can be slower sometimes. i sugesto to have a 50gb plan internet by Didi simcards
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85°🥵AQI 26✈️18h$3,026 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×According to the World Happiness Report, San José in Costa Rica is the 11th "happiest city" (in terms of how positively the inhabitants currently evaluate their lives on average) among 186 cities across the globe. In this ranking, the top cities have often a much higher cost of living.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🤬 Unusably slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 46✈️19h$2,917 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×