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| ⭐️ Total score | 18 reviews |
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| 😝 Fun | |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food 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* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Middle East |
| 🚩 Country | Saudi Arabia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 31°C 87°F + 😊 Comfy (58%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 63 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 SAR in USD | USD 2.67 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | SAR 1,000 = USD 267 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 8,745,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 167,598 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $19,817 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 93% 👱♀️ 7% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | La Mudi |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Qatar |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,069 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,255 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,246 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $642 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $708 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,064 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $307 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $33 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $68 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $249 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $7 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $3,777 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $11 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $3 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Way too hot in the summer
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 10641° scorching | 11144° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 11546° scorching | 10842° scorching | 9736° hot | 8630° warm |
| Real | 8228° very warm | 8329° very warm | 9133° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm |
| Humidity | nice 61% | nice 54% | nice 43% | nice 39% | nice 34% | nice 35% | nice 36% | nice 39% | nice 48% | nice 46% | nice 53% | nice 55% |
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| Rain | dry 16mm | dry 14mm | dry 1mm | dry 16mm | dry 2mm | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 2mm | dry 5mm | dry 2mm | dry 4mm | dry 5mm |
| Cloud | pockets 18% | pockets 25% | clear 4% | pockets 26% | pockets 18% | pockets 27% | cloudy 59% | pockets 33% | pockets 42% | clear 6% | clear 6% | pockets 38% |
| Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
| Remote workers | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people | 333 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels -1° 30° 2° 36°AQI 87😷✈️6h$5,056 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleI find it difficult to understand what people see in this city. The cost to benefit ratio is just so terribly bad! This is by far the most expensive city in Europe (especially in terms of rent), with hardly anything to offer in comparision with other cities like Barcelona, Lisbon or Warsaw. The weather is just average, with cold and windy winters and mediocre summers. It's difficult to come by restaurants that offer anything other than Indian fast food for a decent price - most places are just u
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 3° 37°AQI 25✈️6h$6,037 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleMost people I speak to confirmed my belief that Marrakesh is a place to visit for a few days max. The excitement and chaos are novel for a short time, particularly in the old medina. Scams, expensive and tiresome. For sure Marrakech is something to experience, it really is a buzz, especially if you want to shop but within a couple of days I learned to avoid the medina as much as I could and within a week I was ready to leave. Plenty of excursions and day trips including Atlas mountains, Sahara,
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 27✈️6h$2,814 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleVery nice city, but as everyone says, a bit boring after awhile. It's comfortable and feels like the suburbs, with conveniences that you don't always find in SE Asian countries. Luxury shopping malls, excellent hospitals, and infrastructure, are all things that are not as common in other SE Asian countries, (although Bangkok, TH, has good malls and hospitals). KLCC is safe, from a solo female traveler, if you're careful. I stayed in the KLCC area and was advised by other KL nomads, to stay ins
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