⭐️ Total score | 3.06/5 (Rank #149) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,428 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 28Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C76°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 62% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 Moderate: 97 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 126 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Okay |
💰 Income level* | High: $2,048 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Taiwan |
⏱ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 28 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 76°F + 😊 Comfy (62%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 126 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 TWD in USD | USD 3.37 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TWD 10,000 = USD 337 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $24,577 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | PCHome |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | EVA |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,428 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,846 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,698 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,057 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $902 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,526 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $888 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $42 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $83 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $188 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $9 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 8228° warm | 8630° warm | 10440° hot | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 9334° hot | 8429° warm | 7524° warm |
Real | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8831° hot | 8731° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 8027° warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 68% | nice 70% | nice 74% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 74% | nice 71% |
Rain | dry 3mm | dry 11mm | dry 6mm | dry 35mm | dry 48mm | rainy 615mm | rainy 331mm | rainy 602mm | rainy 203mm | rainy 114mm | dry 16mm | dry 22mm |
Cloud | pockets 48% | pockets 38% | pockets 29% | pockets 48% | cloudy 63% | overcast 92% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 85% | pockets 45% | cloudy 56% | pockets 48% | pockets 39% |
Air quality | bad 120 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI | bad 126* US AQI | bad 126* US AQI | bad 100 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 467 people | 450 people | 480 people | 267 people | 400 people | 300 people | 300 people | 350 people | 350 people | 0 people | 320 people | 300 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵AQI 33✈️4h$1,822 / mo🌇 Also went here41 people×Not gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 21✈️4h$5,034 / mo🌇 Also went here49 people×Honestly, 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 83😷✈️5h$2,065 / mo🌇 Also went here29 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.
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