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| ⭐️ Total score | 5 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 27 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 48 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 16°C 61°F + 💦 Damp (75%) = feels 16°C 61°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 9 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 35.75 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 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 |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ 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 | $2,871 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,817 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,348 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,242 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,836 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,670 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $892 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $86 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $55 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $9 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ 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
❌ Cold now
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very damp 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 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 25✈️11h$5,205 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleJust returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 72✈️11h$4,607 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleLived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 33✈️11h$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleJust came back from my second proper trip to Copenhagen. Now, I've been there in February and August, which is a huge contrast in this city. Winter: Copenhagen is great for cafes, working in them and experiencing the "hygge" (coziness) lifestyle. Why? Because the weather is so cold, windy and partly rainy that you just don't want to spend time outside. If you have someone to cuddle with, I highly recommend going there in Winter. Summer: Just amazing. If the weather is good you have several
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels -2° 28° 1° 33°AQI 27✈️12h$5,952 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 60✈️12h$5,390 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleI visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -3° 27° 1° 34°AQI 28✈️12h$3,225 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleExtremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels -2° 28° 2° 36°AQI 17✈️13h$4,868 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleIt´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 74✈️13h$5,616 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleStayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️13h$2,331 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleHanoi feels more like a "large village" than a proper city. It's also what I call "unapologetically Vietnamese" given the way most places and shops are occupied and used by locals. English penetration isn't bad, but maybe because I speak Vietnamese I never had much of a problem in Hanoi. Prices for coffee, juice, smoothies, and food are insanely affordable. I wouldn't say the locals are "friendly to a fault" and mostly have left me alone. Yes, the old town city center is dirty, garbage on the
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 82😷✈️19h$1,146 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleI really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 30° 86°🥵AQI 160😷✈️20h$1,343 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
