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| ⭐️ Overall score | 224 reviews |
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| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Belgium |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 52 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 13°C 55°F + 💦 Damp (86%) = feels 12°C 54°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 7 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 39 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Proximus |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee College |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Startit BE |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 98,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $41,199 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Coolblue |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Lufthansa |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Lufthansa |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €2,498 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €1,554 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €3,322 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €949 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €657 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €179 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €1,392 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €65 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (84 listings) | €1,615 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €53 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €10 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 373° cold | 489° cold | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5513° cool | 436° cold | 415° cold |
| Real | 415° very cold | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 7122° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 457° cold |
| Humidity | damp 82% | damp 78% | damp 72% | nice 69% | damp 75% | nice 74% | nice 67% | nice 70% | nice 76% | damp 81% | damp 85% | damp 83% |
| Rain | dry 25mm | dry 24mm | dry 46mm | dry 16mm | dry 23mm | rainy 205mm | dry 18mm | dry 27mm | dry 31mm | rainy 53mm | dry 35mm | dry 43mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 86% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 73% |
| Air quality | clean 46 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 1 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 0 people | 0 people | 1 people |
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