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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 224 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👍 Quality of life | |
| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| ✌️ Peace | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety | |
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| 😄 Happiness | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Philippines |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 12 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 13 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌤 35°C 95°F + 💦 Humid (67%) + 💨 8km/h = feels like 48°C 118°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 41 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Starmobile |
| 💸 100 PHP in USD | USD 1.97 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PHP 10,000 USD 197 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Serviced Office |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Kuppa |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Filling Station Bar And Cafe |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 580,000 people |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | RentPad |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Cebu Pacific |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Philippine |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Makati Medical Center |
| islandno-beachnon-touristywarm nowwarmhotclean airgood air qualityfast internethigh humiditymany womenfriendly peopleadult nightlife |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,942 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,336 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,098 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $885 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $592 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $195 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $881 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $41 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $1,595 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $52 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $5 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
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🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 46✈️16h$2,114 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels like | 9535° hot | 9937° hot | 10641° scorching | 11747° scorching | 11747° scorching | 11747° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10239° hot |
| Real temperature | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9535° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot |
| Humidity | sweaty 72% | comfy 68% | comfy 65% | comfy 64% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 74% |
| Rain | not rainy 7mm | not rainy 9mm | not rainy 5mm | not rainy 24mm | rainy 82mm | rainy 215mm | rainy 155mm | rainy 202mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 66mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 33% | pockets 16% | pockets 33% | pockets 34% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 79% | overcast 90% | overcast 97% | overcast 93% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 84% | pockets 37% |
| Air quality | bad 125 AQI | bad 113 AQI | bad 106 AQI | bad 101 AQI | bad 91 AQI | bad 76 AQI | bad 81 AQI | bad 90 AQI | bad 81 AQI | bad 87 AQI | bad 106 AQI | bad 109 AQI |
| UV Index | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
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✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very friendly to LGBT
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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