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| ⭐️ Total score | 206 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 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 | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Chile |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 14 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 16°C 60°F + 💦 Damp (91%) = feels 16°C 61°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 53 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 51.5 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Movistar |
| 💸 1,000 CLP in USD | USD 1.21 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CLP 100,000 = USD 121 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Lighthouse Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 210,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $13,794 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | LAN |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | KLM |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,706 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,050 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,407 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $402 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $302 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $64 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,309 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $61 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 196 listings) | $2,171 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $71 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the summer
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6116° cool | 5714° cool | 5915° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6619° mild | 6820° mild |
| Real | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6418° cool | 6418° cool | 6116° cool | 5714° cool | 5915° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 6619° mild |
| Humidity | nice 84% | nice 83% | nice 83% | nice 80% | nice 73% | damp 74% | damp 74% | damp 75% | damp 71% | damp 72% | nice 78% | nice 79% |
| Rain | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 7mm | dry 1mm | dry 3mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm |
| Cloud | pockets 35% | pockets 34% | pockets 36% | pockets 40% | cloudy 56% | pockets 42% | pockets 44% | pockets 41% | pockets 32% | pockets 23% | pockets 34% | pockets 39% |
| Air quality | clean 45 US AQI | okay 51 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | okay 66 US AQI | okay 69 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 52 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 13 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 500 people | 300 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 72✈️28min$1,861 / mo11Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 70✈️28min$1,651 / mo10Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 157😷✈️32min$862 / mo3MbpsPeople are obsessed with American living way. Everything is in Malls, from store to restaurants. You will need a car or taxi to get there. Renting apartments will be extremely complicated as you will need to show your income, paid taxes, etc. You can always use Airbnb, but you will pay 3-4 times more then what is worth. Everything is overpriced for what you will get. Food in restaurants is 5/10, if you will buy in stores, expect most of it imported from Europe, USA and other countries. Fun facto
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 1✈️2h$906 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 56°AQI 1✈️2h$976 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 68✈️56min$2,207 / mo7MbpsPeople are obsessed with American living way. Everything is in Malls, from store to restaurants. You will need a car or taxi to get there. Renting apartments will be extremely complicated as you will need to show your income, paid taxes, etc. You can always use Airbnb, but you will pay 3-4 times more then what is worth. Everything is overpriced for what you will get. Food in restaurants is 5/10, if you will buy in stores, expect most of it imported from Europe, USA and other countries. Fun facto
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 55✈️3h$1,523 / mo9MbpsVery nice and underrated city. Many parks, and things to do. The best neighborhoods are Centro (near Shopping Estacao) and Batel (near Praca Japao). You can do everything on foot. Everything is cheap by European standards. The nightlife is very good, Latin America standard. Women are beautiful. Security is okay in these neighborhoods, but be aware. English speaking is only possible with young people or some adults. The weather is good and comfortable in the fall. One of my favorite cities in Bra
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 52✈️3h$1,190 / mo6MbpsI spent two months in Arequipa and loved most of it! Lovely people and a lot of nature around. The beautiful Colca Canyon is near, where you can also see the Andean Condor or book multiple-day hiking tours. It is close to Puno which you should visit as well and it's easy to go to Cusco from here, to see the famous Macchu Picchu. For working it wasn't that great, unfortunately, with slow internet and the available coworking spaces not quite as nice as I had hoped. It's still okay though, so not
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 110😷✈️2h$1,309 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleLoved Miraflores in Lima - has a lot of stylish cafes and restaurants with good food, coworkings, parks. Barranco has some amazing nightclubs. Although Lima is more expensive than other parts of Peru
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 67✈️3h$1,112 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleI live here and I would like to comment on some things that might be different from what you expect: - Walkability: Definitely not great, the city is huge, there are neighborhood where is safe to walk, with interesting stuff to do, but this isn't the case on most places far from west zone (Pinheiros and Vila Madalena) and Paulista avenue. Expect to use public transportation (subway and buses) and uber a lot. - LGBTQ+: Sao Paulo is the state with most homicides against trans people in the whol
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 55✈️3h$1,523 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleStrongly agree that this is an underrated city! If you want to buckle down and get some work done, it's a great place to be. Folks here are a bit more serious and business minded, and it comes with generally good internet and functioning services around the city. There are a number of cool coliving buildings that make life really fun. I stayed in one called Plura Coliving for about $700/month. You get a private room/bathroom + gym, spa, bar, restaurant, laundry, coworking, rec rooms, etc. all bu
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 42✈️8h$1,681 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleI really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 76😷✈️8h$1,562 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleGood: - Great local food - Portuguese people are amazingly friendly - Vibrant DN community. It's like the city has been overtaken by remote workers. You will see everyone working on their laptop everywhere you go. - Amazing views whenever you want; you can just get a beer and climb to one of the viewpoints to see the sunset. Easy and magical. - Super cheap Ubers, easy subway Bad: - Housing prices. I'm not kidding, it's the worst I've ever seen. Ultra overpriced. I guess that's the problem when
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 29° 84°AQI 35✈️13h$2,598 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleAs an expat in Geneva since 5years now, I'll recommend Lausanne or Zurich before Geneva. French Swiss are slow to make business with and have a lot of bureaucracy.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 29✈️15h$5,491 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleSuper expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 17✈️15h$3,089 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 31° 88° 30° 87°🥵AQI 55✈️16h$4,691 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 31✈️16h$5,959 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 14✈️16h$3,758 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleVisited in February of 2019, the week before Carnival. Great time to visit as there were hardly any tourists and only a few other travelers. Downside is a lot of the restaurants aren't open and some tours are shut down. Upside is you get to live like a local in a insanely touristy town 10 months of the year. We were able to grab a very nice 1 bedroom apartment in the old town center with a kitchen for 150 euros for 5 nights (30 euros/n). Probably 10-15 restaurants were open in the old town, incl
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 27° 81°AQI 42✈️16h$2,552 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 17✈️25h$1,987 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people
