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| ⭐️ Total score | 201 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
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| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 50 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 20°C 68°F + 😊 Comfy (68%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 22 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | T-Mobile |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Organic Man Coffee Trike |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 260,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Doctors Hospital of Laredo |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,409 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,585 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,137 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,182 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $926 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $220 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,516 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $71 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 25 listings) | $1,271 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $8 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 8228° warm | 9133° hot | 11546° scorching | 11747° scorching | 11747° scorching | 12250° scorching | 10943° scorching | 9937° hot | 7222° mild | 7222° mild |
| Real | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 9334° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 9937° hot | 9334° hot | 8831° hot | 7222° mild | 7222° mild |
| Humidity | nice 68% | nice 73% | nice 70% | nice 61% | sweaty 71% | nice 64% | nice 57% | nice 56% | nice 64% | nice 66% | nice 70% | nice 58% |
| Rain | dry 9mm | dry 6mm | dry 6mm | dry 24mm | rainy 143mm | dry 16mm | dry 2mm | dry 0mm | dry 42mm | dry 41mm | dry 16mm | rainy 137mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 61% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 57% | pockets 32% | pockets 45% | pockets 29% | pockets 14% | pockets 11% | pockets 15% | pockets 24% | cloudy 54% | pockets 23% |
| Air quality | clean 23 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 31✈️15min$3,329 / mo40Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 31✈️15min$2,809 / mo39Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 19° 66° 19° 67°AQI 31✈️15min$2,674 / mo54Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 31✈️16min$3,255 / mo48Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 28✈️17min$2,605 / mo50MbpsOne of the top 5 capital for industries and commerce, som of the most important companies have a sede in this city. Super easy to fly around the world. Wonderful places to visit for families or alome. Friendly people and it is the capitol of the comedy in Mexico.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 40✈️17min$1,230 / mo7Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 50✈️19min$2,845 / mo50MbpsWhere cowboys and the wild west truly started, San Antonio is a beautiful and historic city with many layers to explore within and outside the city. It's a hotter town than Austin, not just in temperature, but also in terms of friendliness, activities, family values, and cultural richness (with authentic tacos of all types, Tex-Mex, Cali style, and from Mexico City), it has one of the best culinary and cocktail scenes in the country. It's one of the most affordable for millennials in the States
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 33✈️19min$2,909 / mo48Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 50✈️21min$2,252 / mo44Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 28✈️23min$2,853 / mo38MbpsAll in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 51°AQI 42✈️28min$3,815 / mo49Mbpsdon't ever come here. all the people that live here hate it and end up getting into drugs. fr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️35min$3,160 / mo55MbpsWhere cowboys and the wild west truly started, San Antonio is a beautiful and historic city with many layers to explore within and outside the city. It's a hotter town than Austin, not just in temperature, but also in terms of friendliness, activities, family values, and cultural richness (with authentic tacos of all types, Tex-Mex, Cali style, and from Mexico City), it has one of the best culinary and cocktail scenes in the country. It's one of the most affordable for millennials in the States
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 33✈️19min$2,909 / mo48MbpsThis is a very charming old town with really beautiful infrastracture and bakeries. I stayed in one of the traditional villas with a balcony overlooking the entire town. I love hanging around in the coffee shop, and even starbucks looks artesanal. The weather can get really cold at night so best make sure that you have a heater in the accomodation you are in. It is actually quite cold that you really cant stay at the balcony to enjoy the view too long. Internet is okay, safety is okay.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 53✈️59min$1,485 / mo7MbpsAll in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 51°AQI 42✈️28min$3,815 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleIn it's current iteration, Houston is a wide-spread, vehicle dependent city and would be a difficult place to exist as a Nomad without a vehicle. Downtown Houston was once a desolate cluster of office buildings that was abandoned at sundown. But now, downtown is currently undergoing a transformation and will soon (5~ years) make for an inhabitable and nomad friendly destination.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 28✈️38min$3,302 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleThis is a very charming old town with really beautiful infrastracture and bakeries. I stayed in one of the traditional villas with a balcony overlooking the entire town. I love hanging around in the coffee shop, and even starbucks looks artesanal. The weather can get really cold at night so best make sure that you have a heater in the accomodation you are in. It is actually quite cold that you really cant stay at the balcony to enjoy the view too long. Internet is okay, safety is okay.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 53✈️59min$1,485 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI've been to New Orleans plenty of time as a tourist, but this is my first time being a digital nomad and working down here for 3 weeks. Something about New Orleans always brings me back. Such a unique and one-of-a-kind place that while has gotten more expensive over the years, still is far more affordable than many places in the US. A lot of cheap good fun to have here and some amazing food. I will admit your safety factor will depend heavily on the area you're staying at.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 30✈️1h$4,253 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 29✈️3h$5,552 / mo🌇 Also went here1 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 40°AQI 17✈️3h$5,251 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI'd avoid Toronto. Weather is miserable for 4-5 months a year. Nightlife is average. Taxes are high. Every conversation with someone from here devolves into how expensive it is (and honestly, it's not particularily expensive... compared to other large english speaking cities). Transit isn't great. City doesn't feel particularily well planned. If you want to live in a cold city, then go to Montreal or Berlin.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels -13° 9° -8° 18°AQI 21✈️3h$3,168 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 21✈️4h$4,715 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI was there for one week and stayed in Bocagrande, about a 10 minute taxi ride from the Walled City. Pros of Cartagena: Inexpensive locale, reliable and fast internet, good weather (if you like it hot), not terribly crowded (aside from Walled City), beauty/history/nightlife of Walled City. Cons: Local beaches are average at best and riddled with vendors who accost visitors non-stop, street vendors are less pushy but everywhere, fluency in Spanish is very helpful (not really a con, just is),
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 57✈️4h$1,372 / mo🌇 Also went here1 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 57✈️4h$854 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI just loved Medellin. I planned to stay 4 weeks, but I stayed 8 weeks. First, the weather: always comfortable, not too hot not too cold. You do not need air conditioning, you can sleep with the window open (no mosquitoes or flies because of the bats). Second, for a North American, everything is very cheap; food, lodging, transportation (Uber and taxis are so inexpensive you should not bother with the very clean subway or the buses). Then the fun life; every neighborhood has some kind of nigh en
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 93😷✈️5h$999 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI was at Bogota for two weeks last month and did not felt like doing much tourism. Its a packed city, traffic jam at its worse and a wierd vibe. Im not a city guy, though internet its great and services run 24/7. I stayed at a comercial barrio, Muequeta, in front of a uni, which felt safer.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 62°AQI 99😷✈️5h$950 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleI stayed in Cape Town for 5 months and loved every minute of it. The work life balance is fantastic, after work there's the beach or countless options to walk or hike, everything accessible from the middle of the city. Wifi is so so, but never had an issue to work with a sim card / mobile phone hotspot as a backup. So many great restaurants and coffee shops. I mostly worked from coffee shops, but there are also lots of co working spaces. Safety is an issue, yes, but you just have to be smart (ie
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 38✈️19h$1,922 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
