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| ⭐️ Total score | 200 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
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| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 60 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 33°C 92°F + 🥵 Sweaty (76%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 35.75 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | T-Mobile |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | 10th Street Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Rio Grande Regional Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,537 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,632 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,465 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $990 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $700 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $220 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,473 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $69 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 34 listings) | $2,137 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $70 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $8 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° warm | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 11747° scorching | 11144° scorching | 11848° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10440° hot | 8228° warm | 8831° hot |
| Real | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 7926° warm | 8127° warm |
| Humidity | nice 72% | nice 78% | nice 71% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 77% | nice 73% | sweaty 83% |
| Rain | dry 32mm | dry 19mm | dry 19mm | dry 32mm | rainy 170mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 185mm | dry 15mm | rainy 54mm | dry 37mm | rainy 78mm | dry 25mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 52% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 52% | pockets 40% | pockets 42% | pockets 27% | pockets 20% | pockets 36% | pockets 34% | pockets 49% |
| Air quality | clean 26 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 53✈️13h$1,083 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleI do not like Hanoi. I would not recommend it. I would rather go to Mexico city (cleaner and easier to get around). The driving situation is bizarre and scary. Gab app only works with cash, and honestly, most things only work with cash. The streets are dirty and disorganized. People barely speak English here (I found more english speakers in Da Nang, Vietnam). I tried to stay in Truc Bach and it was so dirty and loud that i left to West lake (which is supposed to be one of the nice area). It is
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 46✈️20h$958 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
