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| ⭐️ Total score | 211 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | India |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 19 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 23 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 28°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 55 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 151 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Airtel |
| 💸 100 INR in USD | USD 1.34 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | INR 10,000 = USD 134 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Coffee Day |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,706 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | 99Acres |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Indigo |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Jet Airways |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,155 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $585 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $969 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $277 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $80 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $54 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,042 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $49 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 27 listings) | $1,171 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ 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 | 9133° hot | 9736° hot | 10239° hot | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 9535° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9535° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot | 9937° hot |
| Real | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 8530° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot |
| Humidity | nice 61% | nice 63% | nice 66% | nice 69% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 75% | nice 68% |
| Rain | dry 1mm | dry 5mm | dry 8mm | dry 31mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 273mm | rainy 225mm | rainy 279mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 314mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 84mm |
| Cloud | pockets 25% | pockets 37% | pockets 22% | pockets 27% | cloudy 81% | overcast 96% | overcast 93% | overcast 98% | overcast 92% | cloudy 89% | pockets 47% | pockets 46% |
| Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 55🚕1h$794 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 72🚕3h$868 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 92😷🚕3h$1,015 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 86😷✈️10min$1,076 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 57✈️12min$812 / mo23MbpsStayed a whole month in Fort Kochi area, eventually going to Ernakulam (downtown area). It is unarguably very different than rest of India, much more cleaner and with friendlier people. Beaches aren`t nice for bathing but are a great choice to catch sunsets everyday. Cost of living is dirty cheap and public transport is good. They even have a subway crossing the city with reminds me the BTS in Bangkok. Actually, Kochi to me is like a small and boring version of Bangkok, which is good if you need
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 83°AQI 139😷✈️13min$526 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 30° 86°🥵AQI 41✈️13min$728 / mo25MbpsBengaluru, January 4-9, and 13-13, 2020. Had a good time in Bengaluru ( formerly Bangalore). At first I stayed at the Parijatha Gateway Hotel, Near Soap Factory Metro, which was ideal for my purposes. Transit & shopping was nearby, and there was a mall and good food. The Metro in BLR is VERY modern and smooth- be prepared to be patted down (women and men separately) to get into the station, and you can but a metrocard at the ticket window. In Bangalore the internet is VERY fast (it is India
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 78😷✈️22min$698 / mo26Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°AQI 93😷✈️22min$814 / mo22Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 89°🥵AQI 41✈️23min$908 / mo22Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 89😷✈️24min$1,066 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 53✈️27min$913 / mo20MbpsBengaluru, January 4-9, and 13-13, 2020. Had a good time in Bengaluru ( formerly Bangalore). At first I stayed at the Parijatha Gateway Hotel, Near Soap Factory Metro, which was ideal for my purposes. Transit & shopping was nearby, and there was a mall and good food. The Metro in BLR is VERY modern and smooth- be prepared to be patted down (women and men separately) to get into the station, and you can but a metrocard at the ticket window. In Bangalore the internet is VERY fast (it is India
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 78😷✈️22min$698 / mo26Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 89😷✈️24min$1,066 / mo23Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 57✈️12min$812 / mo23MbpsPutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 30° 85°🥵AQI 61✈️4h$1,248 / mo11MbpsPanama reminds me of the booming southeast asian capitals of bangkok, singapore, manila or kuala lumpur, filled with condos and malls. It is clean, the weather is warm but not humid. Internet speed is fast and reliable, all the conveniences of the city is available here. But aside from that, theres not much else to do here unless you enjoy the malls, eating out and going to the pubs. The only thing that you need to get used to is the roads do not have pedestrian lanes, although cars always prior
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 5✈️22h$2,206 / mo14Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 42✈️4h$3,834 / mo8MbpsBengaluru, January 4-9, and 13-13, 2020. Had a good time in Bengaluru ( formerly Bangalore). At first I stayed at the Parijatha Gateway Hotel, Near Soap Factory Metro, which was ideal for my purposes. Transit & shopping was nearby, and there was a mall and good food. The Metro in BLR is VERY modern and smooth- be prepared to be patted down (women and men separately) to get into the station, and you can but a metrocard at the ticket window. In Bangalore the internet is VERY fast (it is India
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 78😷✈️22min$698 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleOne of India’s top cities for tech workers
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 27° 81°AQI 104😷✈️59min$691 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 53✈️1h$3,197 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleMumbai, August 28-September 2, September 7, September 11 2019. Got a friend to pick me up at the airport, so I can't evaluate how well UBER works from the airport. Prepaid taxi from the airport is my usual recommendation, and if I was traveling tomorrow that is what I would do. Inside of Mumbai, UBER was my go-to app and worked well. Autos (aka 'Tuk-tuks' in some places) get around well and are cheap, some are also on Uber. Be aware that unless you use a service like UBER, as a foreigner, th
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 164😷✈️1h$1,326 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 168😷✈️3h$961 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI stayed in Pokhara for a few months and it is a friendly place with a good music scene. there are plenty of amazing trekking opportunities around in the Himalayas. the people are very friendly and it's easy to make friends. Lots of travelers here are smoking weed, it seems to be pretty legal here. internet speeds are good (probably 15 up and down on average but I stayed in one place that was hitting 30) but power cuts are frequent in the summer (monsoon) months. Many hotels, guest houses, airbn
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 121😷✈️3h$632 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleKathmandu has frequent power outages as of December 2019 even though everyone says otherwise, as does Pokhara. The old outages are referring to the load shedding issue which were routine power outages for the majority of the day. Now power outages are not routine and can last unknown amounts of time, even the main (and only) airport loses power often. Buildings are unheated, water for showering is generally unheated or lukewarm, many houses get their water from urban aquifers which may be hea
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 155😷✈️3h$600 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 42✈️4h$3,834 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 46✈️4h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleArrived yesterday, at Dreambase coworking now. A fascinating city in the sense that is seems strange, eerie, and sullen. It feels like the city was abandoned for 30 years and what remains is the population that decided to stay. Many random empty, lonely buildings. Patches of busyness dispersed in between patches of nullness. Everything feels just a little bit too far to walk. Grab works fine here for getting around. Extremely affordable. But so far it definitely doesn't feel like the place to be
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 34✈️4h$1,003 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 34✈️4h$3,162 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 87😷✈️6h$1,640 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 117😷✈️6h$2,044 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people
