⭐️ Total score | 1.97/5 (Rank #1195) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,195 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 14Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C80°F (feels 31°C88°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 79% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | High: $2,363 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Sint Maarten |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 14 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 27°C 80°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
☕️ Best coffee place | La Sucriere |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | The PWR Agency |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 34,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $28,352 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Center Louis Constant Fleming |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,195 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,484 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,237 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,496 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,373 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,016 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,233 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $158 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $99 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $347 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $13 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $9,500 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $25 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $18 / trip |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 7826° warm | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8329° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7926° warm |
Humidity | nice 39% | nice 38% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 40% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 38% |
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Rain | dry 37mm | dry 36mm | dry 31mm | dry 49mm | dry 38mm | rainy 59mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 116mm | rainy 135mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 61mm |
Cloud | pockets 23% | pockets 16% | pockets 15% | pockets 24% | pockets 20% | pockets 29% | pockets 22% | pockets 21% | pockets 17% | pockets 18% | pockets 18% | pockets 19% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 233 people | 200 people | 240 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 257 people |
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Hello to everyone ! 🤟 I'm Seb Fourault , entrepreneur and digital nomad who has made Guadeloupe my place of life, as well as my entrepreneurial playground. I want to share with you my experience and my discoveries on this magnificent island, which I see as a true paradise for all entrepreneurs and digital nomads from around the world. Guadeloupe, with its idyllic climate, its rich culture and its strategic proximity to Europe and America, offers an exceptional living and working environmen
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°✈️21min$2,993 / mo10Mbps×Old San Juan's architecture is lovely. Although it's as pricey as a US mainland city, the food is good and the coffee is excellent. Locals can vary in friendliness quite a bit -- although being brusque with someone from the US mainland is entirely understandable. Uber works perfectly well. The museums have very inexpensive admissions fees. All in all, a good destination for a shorter (3 weeks or less) trip. But not a place with a digital nomad community or lots of cultural activities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 57😷✈️26min$4,110 / mo41Mbps×Barbados is still the safest Caribbean island. Expensive yes but value for money. If you want low quality go elsewhere. The vibe is island living so don’t expect everything speedily. People are friendly, well dressed and well educated. It cannot be beat.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 28° 83°✈️53min$4,244 / mo25Mbps×As a Dominican that lived over 25 years in Sto Dgo I have to say most of the comments are accurate. HOWEVER, Santo Domingo is the capital of the country. Just like most Capitals in Latin America (Mexico City being the exception), it's not worth visiting much time. If you want to experience what the Dominican Republic has to offer (Beaches, Nature, Friendly Locals) as a nomad I would recommend Las Terrenas or Cabarete.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵✈️58min$1,964 / mo62Mbps×Jarabacoa is an amazing town. It has a lot of local tourism from Dominicans so there are a lot of excursions like horseback riding, rafting, excursions, waterfalls, parasailing and more. Not as humid as other places in DR. Wouldnt stay here more than 2 weeks unless you are really into outdoorish mountains
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°✈️1h$3,033 / mo17Mbps×Old San Juan's architecture is lovely. Although it's as pricey as a US mainland city, the food is good and the coffee is excellent. Locals can vary in friendliness quite a bit -- although being brusque with someone from the US mainland is entirely understandable. Uber works perfectly well. The museums have very inexpensive admissions fees. All in all, a good destination for a shorter (3 weeks or less) trip. But not a place with a digital nomad community or lots of cultural activities.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82°🥵AQI 57😷✈️26min$4,110 / mo41Mbps×Panama City very interesting and slept on. Probably the most developed major city in Latin America with the strongest technology infrastructure which makes it very appealing for digital nomads. Also a lot of international business coming through here so there can definitely be good networking opportunities. It’s also super safe compared to other South American hotspots like Medellin however it is significantly more expensive. I would say prices here are slightly less expensive than southern s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 39° 102° 31° 88°🥵✈️3h$2,483 / mo34Mbps×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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°✈️8h$5,912 / mo128Mbps×Boston is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the capital of the state, the largest city in New England, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The city proper is home to about 617,900 people, making it the largest city in New England and the 26th largest in the United States.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 32✈️4h$6,641 / mo82Mbps×Saigon has things going for it—great food, beautiful French architecture, interesting history, steady development, and nice enough people. But overall, the vibes are mediocre. Again, the locals are nice enough, though, as a Westerner, you're not going to feel as welcomed as you are in surrounding countries (I don't mean to sound entitled, that's an honest assessment). You just sort of exist; people stare at you and will be amused by you, but don't expect the celebrity treatment you get in othe
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 49° 120° 36° 97°🥵✈️22h$1,042 / mo45Mbps×I've been here two years, and I can tell you costs aren't as high as reported here - unless you're traveling during the summer months. Any other time of the year, you can find a decent apartment for a decent price (~€800/mo) and take advantage of low cost of living. Has plenty of hikes around, ideal if you have a vehicle. Bicycle culture is pretty established, but not a lot of bike lanes sadly. Sun & Co is focal point of nomad community, but there are plenty of slowmads or ex-nomads who have s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°✈️9h$4,489 / mo36Mbps×Not quite as bad as Paphos, but still quite ugly and empty feeling, and, as with everywhere in Cyprus, way too expensive for what you get.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 81😷✈️13h$3,476 / mo17Mbps×One of the worst cities in N.America. Insanely expensive, people are awkward and making friends is difficult. Lots of homeless and mentally ill and drug addicts everywhere. Lots of construction. American corpo work culture with zero benefits of American corpo work culture, low salaries. If you want to live in North American city try to go to US instead, NY, Chicago, Miami, all of these are better.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 47°AQI 33✈️4h$4,155 / mo129Mbps×I have lived in Madison for many years and have mixed feelings about it. It is a very clean and green city, and hospitable to bicyclists. There are many parks and nature centers and an abundance of restaurants serving all varieties of cuisine. There is quite a bit to do here, and Madison is also close enough to Milwaukee for day trips to explore. I love the farmers markets and feel very spoiled to have access to so many locales from which to buy organic food (and vegan, paleo, etc.). What I
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 6° 43° 8° 47°✈️5h$4,128 / mo99Mbps×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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°✈️3h$5,698 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°✈️4h$7,298 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°✈️5h$2,013 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 40✈️8h$3,897 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 64°AQI 42✈️8h$5,300 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 27✈️9h$5,534 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 46✈️9h$5,046 / mo🌇 Also went here19 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 42✈️9h$5,060 / mo🌇 Also went here17 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 31✈️9h$6,099 / mo🌇 Also went here19 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 46°AQI 78😷✈️10h$3,943 / mo🌇 Also went here17 people×Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 47°AQI 53😷✈️10h$3,252 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×Vienna is a great place to visit but do not DN here. The internet is either awful of non-existent—even in coffee shops.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 38✈️10h$3,768 / 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 76😷✈️12h$1,867 / mo🌇 Also went here14 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 45° 113° 36° 97°🥵AQI 62😷✈️21h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here15 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 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵✈️23h$4,315 / mo🌇 Also went here14 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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