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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 212 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👍 Quality of life | |
| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| ✌️ Peace | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety | |
| 🏥 Healthcare | |
| 😄 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 | Malaysia |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌦 32°C 89°F + 💦 Humid (70%) + 💨 5km/h = feels like 41°C 106°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 35 US AQI equal to / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Hotlink |
| 💸 10 MYR in USD | USD 2.30 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MYR 1,000 USD 230 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | San Francisco Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Utopia Workspaces |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 870,000 people |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Mahkota Medical Centre |
| old colonial citychurchesold military estblishmentssafest place in malaysiano-beachnon-touristywarm nowwarmhotclean airgood air qualityfast internetcheap cost of livinghigh humiditymany womenfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $952 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $662 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,215 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $347 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $173 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $84 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $337 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $16 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (15 listings) | $1,251 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $41 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $2 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
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| Feels like | 9937° hot | 10239° hot | 10440° hot | 10239° hot | 10239° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot |
| Real temperature | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot |
| Humidity | comfy 66% | comfy 64% | comfy 64% | comfy 66% | comfy 66% | comfy 68% | comfy 68% | comfy 67% | comfy 67% | comfy 67% | comfy 68% | comfy 68% |
| Rain | rainy 96mm | rainy 78mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 92mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 91mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 104mm | rainy 60mm |
| Cloud cover | cloudy 85% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 76% |
| Air quality | clean 33 AQI | clean 39 AQI | clean 38 AQI | clean 30 AQI | clean 27 AQI | clean 30 AQI | clean 40 AQI | clean 66 AQI | clean 64 AQI | clean 54 AQI | clean 53 AQI | clean 36 AQI |
| UV Index | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
| Nomad List members there | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
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