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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 221 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Region | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Belgium |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 52 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 8°C 46°F + Humid (85%) = feels 8°C 46°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 144 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Proximus |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 120 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee College |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Startit BE |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 98,000 people |
| 🏞 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 | $3,022 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,893 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,972 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,135 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $786 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $214 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,665 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $78 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (77 listings) | $2,071 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $68 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $12 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ 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
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very humid now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Not family friendly
❌ 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 | clean 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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Dirty, ill-managed city. Unsafe due to impunity and laxist law enforcement. Friendly people though and great food!
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 82😷🚕41min$2,838 / mo40MbpsGreat city, but not for nomads. If you want to come here, come here for a week, that's more than enough to see all the interesting parts of the city. Best place for beers: Kaapse Brouwers.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 113😷🚕4h$3,753 / mo39MbpsA lovely place to be! Everything is walkable, lots of nature around, a great international community, nice restaurants (some of them do close for winter though).
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 15✈️2h$2,339 / mo26MbpsSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 10° 49°AQI 90😷✈️22min$4,031 / mo29MbpsBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 42✈️50min$3,030 / mo35MbpsLjubljana (and Slovenia in general) is an AMAZING place. I cannot recommend it enough. All I ask is - please don't write public blogs and make vlogs about it. It is still sort of undiscovered except among Europeans and mostly Italians. Let's try and keep it that way as long as possible.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 57✈️1h$2,338 / mo52MbpsGreat city, but not for nomads. If you want to come here, come here for a week, that's more than enough to see all the interesting parts of the city. Best place for beers: Kaapse Brouwers.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 113😷🚕4h$3,753 / mo39MbpsI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 4° 39° 4° 38°AQI 76😷✈️1h$1,518 / mo44MbpsLondon is the best city in the world - you just can't do it on a budget. It's got an amazing tech scene but ALSO world class media, fashion, finance, art industries and many others. If you don't want to live in a tech / expat mono-culture then it's for you. It is a genuine melting pot with a huge range of nationalities and cultures living together (the US has a large number of nationalities but there seems to be hard segregations between them geographically, economically, culturally - so they
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 7° 45°AQI 76😷✈️27min$4,052 / mo🌇 Also went here9 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 42✈️50min$3,030 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleDuring winter is quite safe plus much cheaper. Some nightclubs are free and yet there is still a lot of people. Great por lgbtq+ community.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 34✈️1h$2,876 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 4° 39° 4° 38°AQI 76😷✈️1h$1,518 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleI already living more than 1 year in Warsaw and i still think it's one of the best cities to live as a nomad as well. there is plenty of meetups to meet other expats, the people are nice, its cheap, its very big and not crowded, and very clean, pros: cheap easy to make international friends , as there is many meetups great public transport plenty of cafes to work from warm and honest locals the cons : Not many nomads, big city so some places far from each other . expensive cowork places (
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 42°AQI 81😷✈️2h$1,899 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleSplit is a very pleasant town. You have Roman ruins, clear Adriatic waters, ferries to Hvar and other islands. Places to stay are affordable, food is medium priced. English is pretty commonly spoken. You can explore the town in about two days, but it seems a very pleasant place to live (I’ve been here 2 weeks & plan to stay for 2 months).
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 23✈️2h$2,702 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleA lot more things to do there on Summer than on Winter, even though the city is beautiful both seasons. Wouldn't recommend going there in the beginning of spring or late autumn since it'd be mostly rainy and cold. On Summer I recommend just walking around the city and checking out all the architecture and drinking beer on the beach of Hietalahti or taking a ferry to Suomenlinna and having a picnic day there. Linnanmäki amusement park is also nice if you are traveling with children. On Winter I
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌫 Feels -3° 27° 1° 34°AQI 18✈️2h$3,619 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleLisbon is the next remote work hub of Europe. There's many reasons why I think that: 1) it already has somewhat of a startup/tech scene because of the annual Web Summit conference 2) which means internet is fast, and there's lots of meetups and it's easy to make friends 3) it's relatively affordable for foreigners compared to Spain and the rest of Europe 4) Portuguese people are super friendly, a lot more friendly than in the rest of the Mediterranean and Europe 5) Lisbon is ideal to go on day/w
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 42°AQI 66✈️12h$2,363 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 69✈️12h$2,053 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleCarolina is not safe anymore. Agree with the rest. Live in Quito for 7 years
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 66✈️13h$998 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people
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