Mashhad

✅ Affordable to live

✅ Pretty safe

✅ Warm now

✅ Warm in the spring

✅ Good air quality usually

✅ Spacious and not crowded

✅ High quality of education

✅ Not many people smoke tobacco

❌ Pretty slow internet

❌ Not much to do

❌ Gets cold in the winter

❌ Too hot in the summer

❌ Very dry air now

❌ Very difficult to make friends

❌ Difficult to do business

❌ Hospitals are not that great

❌ Roads are very dangerous

❌ Freedom of speech is weak

❌ Not very democratic

❌ People don't speak English well

❌ Not safe for women

❌ Not family friendly

❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+