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| ⭐️ Total score | 343 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Thailand |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 51 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 87°F + 😊 Comfy (67%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.79 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 279 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Smiling Dog Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👎5% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 460,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,911 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | 9 Apartment |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $979 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $736 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,819 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $520 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $455 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $349 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $21 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $157 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $8,374 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $4 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Humidity | nice 39% | nice 37% | nice 38% | nice 42% | nice 44% | nice 42% | nice 42% | nice 44% | nice 43% | nice 44% | nice 45% | nice 41% |
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| Rain | dry 45mm | dry 16mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 219mm | rainy 273mm | rainy 158mm | rainy 277mm | rainy 271mm | rainy 228mm | rainy 333mm | rainy 253mm | rainy 137mm |
| Cloud | pockets 38% | pockets 25% | pockets 33% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 60% | pockets 40% |
| Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
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Ao Nang is a Good Hub for jumping into other beaches and islands. A few services are available for everyday use ( restaurants, bars, laundry, markets, shops, etc ). Still, I consider it quite underdevelop. Internet connectivity was quite intermittent on the two places I stayed. Also, not many places to get work done! I always worked from my villa room. Highly suggest staying by Nopparatthara beach rather than Ao Nang side. No many nomads in here aswell
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°🚕22min$1,534 / mo28MbpsIt's basically a party island -- getting work done will require discipline. One who can accomplish that will be rewarded with a paradisiac cheerful enviroment where everyone wants to be happy and enjoy life. In long term, be careful with your emotional life, as new flows of people everyday going in and out might unbalance your way to see the world.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 83°🚕1h$2,218 / mo27Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°🚕2h$1,446 / mo78MbpsLived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°🚕2h$1,524 / mo59MbpsOne of the most beautiful islands I've ever been to (been to a lot) But, for vacation. For living there, there is just not so much to do.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️14min$1,884 / mo28MbpsKo Samui is an amazing place, I don't agree at all with the CON's. I am a Thai-American and have lived all over Thailand. Ko Samui is my favorite. The people, culture and experience of Ko Samui is wonderful. The roads are dangerous usually due to tourists. Not the locals LOL! This will be changing with Thai law requiring drivers license's. Of course it is humid and sweaty, my goodness you are in the tropics, and April is the hottest month. I suggest researching the best times of year to visit t
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️16min$1,133 / mo73MbpsAgree with other reviewers about the influx of refugees and the increased prices. I'm there now and from my last visit a year ago prices have inflated significantly. There's also development everywhere now so the word is out.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️17min$1,603 / mo65Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️17min$1,151 / mo24MbpsBeen coming to Koh Tao for years, it's an under-rated island IMO. Its small size makes it a great place to stay and remote work from. Lots of great beaches, walking trails, climbing and of course scuba and snorkeling. An amazing selection of restaurants, great coworks and cafes to work from. Being smaller it helps you stay focused, spend less time travelling around etc. I personally have never felt unsafe there and pretty much all the nomads I meet there say the same. Power is much more
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️20min$1,479 / mo40MbpsPenang is really, really hot and humid. It's pretty affordable but it's relatively small. Personally, I think traveling Penang is great because you have a mix of cultures but I couldn't stay here for a longer time because it is so unbelievable hot.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️29min$954 / mo84MbpsGreat place, I stayed at bug n boats.....epics.s go to gua tempurung
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 56😷✈️36min$1,404 / mo24MbpsAhhh Medan. This little jewel in the rough is a place to get away from it all. No foreigners, just you. Maybe 10% speak English. Still, prices are good. I walked into a 5 star hotel, stayed 3 days at the regular rate, then negotiated a rate for 30 days... 5 star perks for $29USD a night. I've been here 2 months now. If you're a fan of Art Deco or Art Moderne, this place is great. The city is beginning a modernization process... slowly... just slowly enough. There are 4-5 huge shopping malls (
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 37° 99° 31° 88°🥵AQI 130😷✈️40min$944 / mo16MbpsMy favorite city for nomading. Cheap, great food, lots to do, modern amenities, plenty of travel options nearby.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 34° 94°🥵AQI 87😷✈️52min$1,394 / mo91MbpsLived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°🚕2h$1,524 / mo59Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°🚕2h$1,446 / mo78MbpsChiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 32° 89°🥵AQI 92😷✈️2h$1,008 / mo60MbpsIt's basically a party island -- getting work done will require discipline. One who can accomplish that will be rewarded with a paradisiac cheerful enviroment where everyone wants to be happy and enjoy life. In long term, be careful with your emotional life, as new flows of people everyday going in and out might unbalance your way to see the world.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 83°🚕1h$2,218 / mo27MbpsIt's getting better. I came here just before the Chinese New Year, and the city was very lively. Lots of people, live music, etc. The decorations in the shopping mall were beautiful, and there were so many food options that it would take a year to try them all.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 67😷✈️50min$1,317 / mo88MbpsAo Nang is a Good Hub for jumping into other beaches and islands. A few services are available for everyday use ( restaurants, bars, laundry, markets, shops, etc ). Still, I consider it quite underdevelop. Internet connectivity was quite intermittent on the two places I stayed. Also, not many places to get work done! I always worked from my villa room. Highly suggest staying by Nopparatthara beach rather than Ao Nang side. No many nomads in here aswell
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°🚕22min$1,534 / mo28MbpsBeen coming to Koh Tao for years, it's an under-rated island IMO. Its small size makes it a great place to stay and remote work from. Lots of great beaches, walking trails, climbing and of course scuba and snorkeling. An amazing selection of restaurants, great coworks and cafes to work from. Being smaller it helps you stay focused, spend less time travelling around etc. I personally have never felt unsafe there and pretty much all the nomads I meet there say the same. Power is much more
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️20min$1,479 / mo40MbpsAgree with other reviewers about the influx of refugees and the increased prices. I'm there now and from my last visit a year ago prices have inflated significantly. There's also development everywhere now so the word is out.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️17min$1,603 / mo65MbpsKo Samui is an amazing place, I don't agree at all with the CON's. I am a Thai-American and have lived all over Thailand. Ko Samui is my favorite. The people, culture and experience of Ko Samui is wonderful. The roads are dangerous usually due to tourists. Not the locals LOL! This will be changing with Thai law requiring drivers license's. Of course it is humid and sweaty, my goodness you are in the tropics, and April is the hottest month. I suggest researching the best times of year to visit t
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°✈️16min$1,133 / mo73MbpsSo… 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°✈️1h$3,952 / mo69MbpsSaigon has some nice areas with good apartments and nature e.g. central park, golden river, empire city. Rest of the city more or less sucks, too much traffic, pollution and noise. Overall pretty meh, no real reason to visit or live there.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 90°🥵✈️1h$1,074 / mo42MbpsLived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°🚕2h$1,524 / mo🌇 Also went here151 peopleIt's getting better. I came here just before the Chinese New Year, and the city was very lively. Lots of people, live music, etc. The decorations in the shopping mall were beautiful, and there were so many food options that it would take a year to try them all.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 67😷✈️50min$1,317 / mo🌇 Also went here161 peopleMy favorite city for nomading. Cheap, great food, lots to do, modern amenities, plenty of travel options nearby.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 34° 94°🥵AQI 87😷✈️52min$1,394 / mo🌇 Also went here287 peopleSaigon has some nice areas with good apartments and nature e.g. central park, golden river, empire city. Rest of the city more or less sucks, too much traffic, pollution and noise. Overall pretty meh, no real reason to visit or live there.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 90°🥵✈️1h$1,074 / mo🌇 Also went here115 peopleSo… 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°✈️1h$3,952 / mo🌇 Also went here159 peopleChiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 32° 89°🥵AQI 92😷✈️2h$1,008 / mo🌇 Also went here222 peopleThe most vietnamese city in Vietnam. The Old Quarter and West Lake are the highlights. If you come, try the egg coffee. Be mindful Vietnam has cracked down on visas, and it is not as friendly to foreigners. I was able to relax after I received a 5-year spousal visa.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 103😷✈️2h$1,070 / mo🌇 Also went here109 peopleCan’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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$1,576 / mo🌇 Also went here107 peopleWas here in Mid-2023. Bali has completely changed from when I last visited in 2017. Full of arrogant influences and degenerate party people who are entitled and have no respect for the locals. Many Uber drivers told me they are starting to get annoyed because a lot of Westerners don’t respect anything…. Pollution and traffic are on the rise. It is turning into Kuta. Probably one of the least walkable places, forget walking on the sidewalk unless you want to get taken out. A lot of accidents
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 50✈️3h$1,927 / mo🌇 Also went here128 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 2° 36° 4° 39°AQI 63😷✈️12h$3,933 / mo🌇 Also went here117 peopleI recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ✈️13h$5,343 / mo🌇 Also went here127 peopleI have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 53😷✈️13h$5,152 / mo🌇 Also went here117 peopleI don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 59😷✈️13h$5,616 / mo🌇 Also went here150 peopleI don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 112😷✈️13h$3,761 / mo🌇 Also went here142 peopleOnce you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 35✈️15h$3,622 / mo🌇 Also went here126 people
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