⭐️ Total score | 2.21/5 (Rank #825) |
👍 Quality of life score | Bad |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $825 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 7Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 36°C98°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🌵 Too dry: 20% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy : 161 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy : 156 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Okay |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Very bad |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $122 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🤨 Busy: 13k ppl/km² (1 per 9x9m) |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Pakistan |
🗓️ Average trip length | 32 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 36°C 98°F + 🌵 Too dry (20%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 161 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 156 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Careem |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 1,000 PKR in USD | USD 3.59 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PKR 100,000 = USD 359 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | OfficeSpace |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Plan9-TechHub |
☕️ Best coffee place | ARCADIAN CAFÉ |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | CAFÉ ACACIA |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 11,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $1,462 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 9x9m (81m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 78% 👱♀️ 22% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | OLX |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Pakistan International Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Flynas |
🏥 Best hospital | Hameed Latif Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $825 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $474 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $708 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $202 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $456 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,167 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $333 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $21 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $117 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $1,169 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $1 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ 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 | 6116° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 9133° hot | 9736° hot | 9334° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° warm | 7524° warm | 6418° cool |
Real | 6016° cool | 7021° mild | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 9535° hot | 9937° hot | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9133° hot | 8932° hot | 7524° warm | 6418° cool |
Humidity | nice 31% | too dry 26% | too dry 20% | too dry 14% | too dry 20% | too dry 20% | nice 32% | nice 31% | nice 35% | too dry 25% | too dry 21% | too dry 24% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain | dry 28mm | dry 5mm | dry 37mm | dry 29mm | dry 21mm | dry 38mm | rainy 168mm | rainy 90mm | rainy 63mm | dry 7mm | dry 7mm | dry 1mm |
Cloud | pockets 17% | pockets 16% | pockets 14% | pockets 29% | pockets 27% | pockets 20% | pockets 39% | pockets 26% | pockets 21% | clear 9% | clear 6% | pockets 17% |
Air quality | bad 211 US AQI | bad 248 US AQI | bad 248 US AQI | bad 248 US AQI | bad 177 US AQI | bad 160 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI | bad 123 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI | bad 193 US AQI | bad 242 US AQI | bad 295 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 467 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 233 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 30° 87°🥵✈️3h$4,579 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Sri Lanka is not ready for tourism. Besides scams and "cartel prices" for tuktuks and other services, it is unsafe for women. Men catcalling, touching, and groping are the norm. Moreover, it is not cheap at all compared to other countries in South/Southeast Asia. Especially when landlords tend to increase rental prices once they learn you're a good tenant. Locals may appear friendly, but the reality often differs. As a patriarchal society, instances of domestic violence against girlfriends and w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 65😷✈️4h$1,275 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Chiang 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 41° 106° 38° 101°🥵AQI 151😷✈️4h$951 / mo🌇 Also went here9 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 45° 113° 36° 97°🥵AQI 62😷✈️4h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×I’m working remotely and since it’s war in Ukraine I was living in Istanbul for half of year, after moving to Dubai i realised it’s not much more expensive here in Dubai. And besides that no one is cheating me like it was happening non stop in Istanbul
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 76😷✈️6h$1,867 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 45° 113° 32° 90°🥵AQI 76😷✈️6h$1,221 / mo🌇 Also went here10 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 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵✈️6h$4,315 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×I 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”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 42✈️8h$5,060 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵AQI 50✈️8h$1,844 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×I 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 27✈️8h$5,534 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 40✈️10h$3,897 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°✈️15h$7,298 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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