⭐️ Total score | 3.2/5 (Rank #160) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,479 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 70Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 24°C75°F (feels 24°C75°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 71% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 63 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 126 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ 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) | 70 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (71%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 63 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 126 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 TWD in USD | USD 3.17 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TWD 10,000 = USD 317 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,400,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $24,577 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 82% 👱♀️ 18% |
🏞 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 | $1,479 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $897 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,845 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $527 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $821 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,530 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $285 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $38 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $50 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $177 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $8,325 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $16 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 9032° hot | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° warm | 7926° warm | 7524° warm |
Real | 7122° mild | 7424° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° very warm | 8932° hot | 8630° hot | 8831° hot | 8731° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 7424° warm |
Humidity | nice 34% | nice 35% | nice 37% | nice 38% | nice 39% | nice 43% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 39% | nice 38% | nice 37% | nice 36% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 2mm | dry 6mm | dry 3mm | dry 17mm | dry 24mm | rainy 308mm | rainy 166mm | rainy 301mm | rainy 102mm | rainy 57mm | dry 8mm | dry 11mm |
Cloud | pockets 32% | pockets 25% | pockets 21% | pockets 33% | pockets 38% | cloudy 60% | pockets 49% | cloudy 53% | pockets 30% | pockets 36% | pockets 31% | pockets 26% |
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 | 400 people | 533 people | 250 people | 350 people | 267 people | 267 people | 440 people | 333 people | 400 people | 333 people | 360 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 89😷✈️2h$2,308 / mo89Mbps×Stayed here for a month. It reminds me of a less-developed Bangkok. Although there are a lot of high-rise buildings being built at the moment. Very cheap place compared to lots of places in Asia however it's one of the most expensive places in Vietnam. I wouldn't stay here long term, good for a month but was ready to move on. Pros: - Cheap city - Has lots of bars and restaurants - Has some good day trips and activities - Safe - Very cheap Ubers Cons: - Can be extremely hot during the day which
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 35✈️4h$1,863 / mo🌇 Also went here44 people×In terms of value for money for a city, I would say Kuala Lumpur is the best in all of Asia, high-quality apartments at a good price, high-quality restaurants, has a car scene if you are a car guy. I found it quite safe. For me, the weather was like 4 seasons in one day almost every day. Rains a lot, a lot of storms and also very hot and humid. Dating was ok not bad like Western countries but not the best. I found the city quite boring itself, not a lot to see inside of the city. If you are
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 55😷✈️4h$1,280 / mo🌇 Also went here60 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 83°AQI 25✈️4h$4,028 / mo🌇 Also went here65 people×Can’t recommend Ubud. It’s just the same overdeveloped and overpriced mentally isolated tourist trap that is Canggu, just a bit worse. If you have never been anywhere else, it might be okay for 2 weeks, but to any seasoned traveller it’s a the type of place you dread.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°AQI 117😷✈️5h$1,987 / mo🌇 Also went here42 people×I find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 7° 45°AQI 50✈️13h$5,006 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people×