⭐️ Total score | 3.21/5 (Rank #461) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,411 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 17Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 14°C57°F (feels 14°C57°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 56% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 26 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 16 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Great |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | High: $3,513 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare* | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Good |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | Canada |
⏱ Average trip length | 37 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 14°C 57°F + 😊 Comfy (56%) = feels 14°C 57°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 26 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 16.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Wind |
💸 10 CAD in USD | USD 7.79 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CAD 100 = USD 78 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Jitter Bean Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Jitter Bean Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 72,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $42,154 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Best Buy |
🏠 Apartment listings | Kijiji |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | West Jet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Canada |
🏥 Best hospital | The Moncton Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,411 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,850 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,509 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,003 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $545 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $257 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,488 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $117 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 14 listings) | $2,513 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $82 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 25-4° freezing | 23-5° freezing | 0° freezing | 436° cold | 5714° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 6116° cool | 415° cold | 27-3° freezing |
Real | 30-1° freezing | 28-3° freezing | 373° very cold | 468° cold | 5815° cool | 7323° mild | 7625° warm | 7725° warm | 7021° mild | 6016° cool | 447° cold | 320° freezing |
Humidity | damp 76% | damp 71% | nice 63% | damp 77% | damp 75% | nice 73% | nice 79% | nice 76% | nice 80% | damp 77% | damp 74% | damp 72% |
Rain | rainy 83mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 95mm | rainy 141mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 151mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 53mm | rainy 149mm | rainy 82mm |
Cloud | cloudy 84% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 64% | pockets 49% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 51% | pockets 47% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 58% |
Air quality | clean 18 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 13 US AQI | clean 12 US AQI | clean 13 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 55✈️17h$966 / mo24Mbps×San Juan is amazing. Tons of beautiful views and restaurants everywhere. If you like Latin America, you'll like San Juan. It is more expensive than other LatAm hubs, but it has better infrastructure and is safer. There are many different vibes you can get on the island. Old San Juan is like Europe but more colorful. Condado is closer to Miami but with a better beach. There is the only rainforest in America just 20 minutes away, not to mention all the other beautiful parts of the island. I wo
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 58✈️55min$3,430 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Very clean city. Internet varies from medium fast to high speed. Public transport is improving greatly. Personal liberties are high, very safe for women and LGBT folk, not that expensive. Winters can be tough.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 27✈️4h$3,956 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×Read the review that starts "I live here and I can tell you that many of the stats listed are wrong" - its spot on accurate I will add to that - Vancouver is brain-numbingly boring and dead. There is noticeable and toxic mix of pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers. Mix in a very Vancouver trait of entitlement, and watch the the passive aggression fly. Vancouverites generally are a cold bunch making it difficult for newcomers. Worst of all they believe in their own created hype that live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 12✈️6h$4,457 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×I really enjoyed my first week here, but as I got to know more locals and heard their stories, I was disturbed at the security situation. Almost everyone I met has horror stories about being robbed at gunpoint, robbed by the police, and in one case even drugged and robbed by a taxi driver. It's not even safe to walk a short distance at night (locals told me to just take Uber). Beyond the security issues, scams also abound, and the covid policy is wacky, with hand sanitizer being forced on you ev
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 47✈️6h$1,536 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 81😷✈️6h$4,754 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Amazing city for a week or two. Really beautiful and tons to do. Loved walking around the streets when I wasn't working!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 27° 81° 28° 83°AQI 28✈️6h$2,416 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×Just blindingly good. Best european city by miles. Cheap tube €26 for 5 days unlimited use! City centre is all walkable though. 4 or 5 distinct barrios with mega nightlife- does anyone actually work?!! Architecture fabulous on every street. Museum reno sofia; the best collection of 20c art, free entry after 7pm! The locals are friendly too. Could easily move here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 32✈️6h$3,329 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people×I spent a month here in January. It's beautiful, and there are plenty of touristy things to do, however the city is very expensive. There are plenty of places to shop, which is the main reason why I went. There are also plenty of WeWorks scattered across the city if you need somewhere consistent to work. The people weren't rude to me, but that's because I always greet people in French before asking for help or information, so to avoid rudeness, I'd suggest learning basic greetings and how to ask
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 21✈️7h$4,396 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 16° 60°AQI 25✈️7h$5,919 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Marbella is probably the best place on the European mainland, warm and mild weather, big international community,(German, English, Scandinavian) fast and stable Internet, very relaxed about drugs and prostitution. It is the safest for female travellers, the police detains every man that verbally or fiscally abuses a woman. Prices go from 20€ a night to over 200€, that is why there are real successful digital nomads here, no "Tramps" with laptops. If you avoid the city centre and Puerto Banus
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 24✈️7h$3,097 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×For anyone who has traveled a lot Málaga will be underwhelming. The weather is AMAZING but the city itself gets boring after 2 days and apart from the historic center most neighborhoods are not pretty to look at. The beaches are not very beautiful. The museums are not impressive and people are not used to digital nomads so if you're not fluent in Spanish it will be nearly impossible to make friends. Public transportation works quite well but to get to the better hiking spots you will need a ren
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 44✈️7h$2,676 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×