⭐️ Total score | 2.48/5 (Rank #267) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,693 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 51Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 25°C78°F (feels 25°C77°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 87% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Sprawling: 3k ppl/km² (1 per 19x19m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
🗓️ Average trip length | 21 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 51 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 25°C 78°F + 😊 Comfy (87%) = feels 25°C 77°F |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Brasilia Center |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Brasilia Center South |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 2.00 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 200 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Espaço Multiplicidade |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | CDT/UnB |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍13% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 19x19m (361m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azul |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Azul |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,693 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $925 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,798 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $514 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,018 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,296 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $368 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $48 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $293 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $9,666 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $26 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,200 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $10,460 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $28,475 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7625° warm | 7625° warm | 7424° warm | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 7524° warm |
Humidity | nice 41% | nice 47% | nice 42% | nice 38% | nice 32% | too dry 29% | too dry 25% | too dry 22% | too dry 15% | nice 36% | nice 46% | nice 48% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 218mm | rainy 215mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 103mm | dry 2mm | dry 5mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 15mm | rainy 143mm | rainy 259mm | rainy 288mm |
Cloud | pockets 48% | cloudy 57% | pockets 45% | pockets 36% | pockets 28% | pockets 26% | clear 8% | pockets 15% | pockets 21% | pockets 44% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 55% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 400 people | 429 people | 450 people | 233 people | 200 people | 400 people | 320 people | 350 people | 400 people | 340 people | 400 people | 311 people |
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Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°✈️50min$1,472 / mo20Mbps×Great city if you want a quieter place, but close enough to São Paulo. If you live near the bus terminal, you can get a bus every 30 min to são paulo. It has some good coworking space if needed. Not as much to do as são paulo, but has some good food places, supermarkets, one good mall. If you live near the main avenue (nove de julho) and close to Jundiaí Shopping / bus terminal, it has some good apartaments to rent, close enough to a good supermarket, the mall, restaurants, public transporta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵✈️1h$1,724 / mo19Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 53😷✈️1h$1,934 / mo87MbpsדDon’t take your phone out” is some outdated advice… there are several people on the streets and in the metro using phones and taking pictures. Remember that nothing stays the same forever. Rio is safer than many people describe. Use your common sense.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵✈️1h$2,203 / mo41MbpsדDon’t take your phone out” is some outdated advice… there are several people on the streets and in the metro using phones and taking pictures. Remember that nothing stays the same forever. Rio is safer than many people describe. Use your common sense.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵✈️1h$2,203 / mo41Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 53😷✈️1h$1,934 / mo87Mbps×Nice and clean modern city. Nothing about it fitted my preconceptions I had as a European about Brazil: I though it'd be dangerous with favelas everywhere. Of course this is South Brazil so it's rich and very different than the North. Curitiba feels more like a Western European city than anything. It can get quite cold in the winter (which is June/July/Aug for Europeans). It has great public transport, and apparently is known for its modern urban planning that grew it from a small town in the 19
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵✈️1h$1,484 / mo20Mbps×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 36✈️10h$3,490 / mo124Mbps×Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°✈️50min$1,472 / mo20Mbps×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵✈️2h$1,573 / mo67Mbps×Porto Alegre (POA) is a city brimming with beautiful Nature. Trees and birds galore. Unfortunately, there is much wasted potential where historical architecture and intelligent zoning are concerned. I've traveled throughout Brazil and lived in Sao Paulo, and I can attest that POA has the best food hands down. Customer service is top notch, and the shopping is good. Love the vintage stores and antique shops too. Sunsets on the lake are a treasure. Gauchos are the most "talkative" people I've ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵✈️2h$1,713 / mo74Mbps×literally one of the worst cities I have ever been, not safe at all, nothing to do, full of retired people, just skip it, Brazil has way better places than this horrible city
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 85°🥵✈️2h$1,981 / mo17Mbps×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°✈️13h$5,775 / mo127Mbps×I grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 12° 54°AQI 23✈️10h$4,501 / mo77Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 53😷✈️1h$1,934 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleדDon’t take your phone out” is some outdated advice… there are several people on the streets and in the metro using phones and taking pictures. Remember that nothing stays the same forever. Rio is safer than many people describe. Use your common sense.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵✈️1h$2,203 / mo🌇 Also went here50 people×Nice and clean modern city. Nothing about it fitted my preconceptions I had as a European about Brazil: I though it'd be dangerous with favelas everywhere. Of course this is South Brazil so it's rich and very different than the North. Curitiba feels more like a Western European city than anything. It can get quite cold in the winter (which is June/July/Aug for Europeans). It has great public transport, and apparently is known for its modern urban planning that grew it from a small town in the 19
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 27° 80°🥵✈️1h$1,484 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×Bali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵✈️2h$1,573 / mo🌇 Also went here28 people×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 27° 81°AQI 46✈️3h$1,554 / mo🌇 Also went here30 people×I 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°🥵✈️8h$5,668 / mo🌇 Also went here26 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 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°✈️9h$6,505 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×Once you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 36✈️10h$3,490 / mo🌇 Also went here33 people×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 26✈️10h$3,567 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 32✈️11h$5,078 / mo🌇 Also went here33 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 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 29✈️12h$5,022 / mo🌇 Also went here37 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 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 65😷✈️12h$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 38✈️12h$6,231 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️13h$3,741 / mo🌇 Also went here26 people×A dystopian cyberpunk metropolis, a veritable Night City, both chaotic and well run, livable yet poisonous. Follow the classic advice: stay near the BTS, skyscraper condo, work from mall libraries, cafes, and commons, don’t be outside. Outsource your chores. On a western salary or with savings, you’ll be playing life on easy mode. Focus your energy on meeting people, honing your body, and learning new skills. There’s a reason it’s number 1. You can disagree, but try to find it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 39° 102° 34° 94°🥵AQI 71😷✈️22h$1,346 / mo🌇 Also went here29 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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