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| ⭐️ Total score | 452 reviews |
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| ❤️ Liked by locals | |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
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| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Russia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 22 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 12°C 54°F + 💦 Damp (83%) = feels 12°C 54°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 36 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 52.75 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Sokolinaja Gora |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Nizhegorodskij |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.71 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 171 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | More Vnutri |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Starlite Diner |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Bosco |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍10% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 4,632,300 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 88,778 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 13,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 42% 👱♀️ 58% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 87% 👱♀️ 13% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Wimdu |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Aeroflot |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
| 🏥 Best hospital | MEDSI |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,761 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,939 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,409 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $974 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $683 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $222 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,170 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $55 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $3,332 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $109 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $9 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,000 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $6,000 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $15,000 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Expensive
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 19-7° freezing | 1-17° freezing | 28-2° freezing | 457° cold | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 8127° warm | 7323° mild | 5010° cold | 489° cold | 30-1° freezing | 19-7° freezing |
| Real | 25-4° freezing | 9-13° freezing | 320° freezing | 479° cold | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 5211° cool | 5010° cold | 362° very cold | 25-4° freezing |
| Humidity | damp 89% | damp 83% | damp 88% | damp 74% | nice 68% | nice 59% | nice 56% | nice 65% | damp 78% | damp 76% | damp 84% | damp 88% |
| Rain | rainy 53mm | rainy 57mm | dry 35mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 60mm | dry 26mm | dry 45mm | rainy 91mm | dry 29mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 56mm |
| Cloud | overcast 97% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 72% | pockets 47% | pockets 44% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 69% | overcast 92% | overcast 94% |
| Air quality | clean 47 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 1,370 people | 1,815 people | 1,543 people | 1,129 people | 1,747 people | 1,440 people | 1,391 people | 1,989 people | 1,767 people | 1,563 people | 1,520 people | 2,200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 14✈️51min$2,124 / mo9MbpsAs a person who’s born here and knows the place well I can give some valuable tips and share a biased view 😄 The city and people are great if you know how to navigate it. If you don’t know, it’s a big problem. Have an advice from the local, it’s important ⚠️ You should have a key for great experience in Kharkiv, get it! 🔑 WHY KHARKIV? Cool, well-educated people with own opinion, business-minded, direct. You’ll not find old historical buildings here the city was rebuilt ground
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️4h$3,784 / mo37MbpsAdler is close, it's the beach resort where most Russians flock making it extremely busy. Very walkable despite it's rating, especially in the centre and adler.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 61✈️2h$1,898 / mo5MbpsLived 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 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 19✈️3h$5,080 / mo19Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 4° 39° 5° 40°AQI 38✈️4h$2,138 / mo11MbpsI lived in Tbilisi for a year from August 2021 to August 2022. I had high hopes for it since I heard a lot of glowing reviews of it. When I came prices for rentals were quite reasonable and I was able to get a lovely one-bedroom in an upscale neighbourhood for just 380 usd. Since, the war, prices have skyrocketed up to what one would expect to pay in a central Europe and even beyond. The quality of life hasn't increase in tandem with the prices, so I no longer felt it was a good deal. As a non-d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 41✈️2h$1,027 / mo10MbpsStayed 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 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 57✈️2h$1,318 / mo30MbpsHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 48✈️3h$4,374 / mo16MbpsLove this city, very romantic and cool in the summer. but it is difficult to find a nice airbnb. it is too much small or too expensive for the quality. you will def have great time here. but unfortunately, I had problem to make friends here. some how, It seemed the locals were not quite interested in having communication or making forein friends even in the co-working space. I don't think this is because of the language barrier but...I cant explain this well. anyway, the city is great to stay f
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 14✈️51min$2,124 / mo🌇 Also went here1,023 peopleSpent a month in Belarus this July - we have some good friends there we work with so it was an excellent time. Some good restaurants. People are extremely friendly, just gotta adapt to the culture a bit. Most seemed to be very interested in the fact that I was American. Felt kind of like the country is just starting to open up and it will be of more international interest in the upcoming 5 - 10 years. English is spoken in Minsk but probably less then in ukraine (my only other former soviet
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 8✈️54min$1,132 / mo🌇 Also went here625 peopleAdler is close, it's the beach resort where most Russians flock making it extremely busy. Very walkable despite it's rating, especially in the centre and adler.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 61✈️2h$1,898 / mo🌇 Also went here646 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 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 57✈️2h$1,318 / mo🌇 Also went here740 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️2h$3,195 / mo🌇 Also went here919 peopleI lived in Tbilisi for a year from August 2021 to August 2022. I had high hopes for it since I heard a lot of glowing reviews of it. When I came prices for rentals were quite reasonable and I was able to get a lovely one-bedroom in an upscale neighbourhood for just 380 usd. Since, the war, prices have skyrocketed up to what one would expect to pay in a central Europe and even beyond. The quality of life hasn't increase in tandem with the prices, so I no longer felt it was a good deal. As a non-d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 41✈️2h$1,027 / mo🌇 Also went here626 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 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 72✈️2h$1,520 / mo🌇 Also went here764 peopleVienna is a cool city. Was there once in winter and once in summer and I liked being there more in summer. In winter is just horribly cold and it's all grey. In summer you can do lots of stuff outside, although the Danube riverside isn't as cool as in Budapest. Pros: - great food options (not only Austrian, but also for vegans) - amazing architecture (really worth seeing) - lots of things to do Cons: - everything closes quite early (supermarkets at 8pm, come on) - quite expensive (didn't re
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 9✈️2h$2,805 / mo🌇 Also went here577 peopleI've spent 4 years in Istanbul, it was one of my best experience. I met amazing people, but also a loooooot (looooot) of scams even from people I considered friends. So be careful of whom you trust there, but instead of that it is a magical city, always something to do, very beautiful, and affordable, and as a women I felt very safe there (learnt turkish but even before that I felt safe)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 36✈️2h$1,254 / mo🌇 Also went here879 peopleA 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 22✈️3h$5,154 / mo🌇 Also went here797 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 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 19✈️3h$5,080 / mo🌇 Also went here766 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 48✈️3h$4,374 / mo🌇 Also went here644 peopleOne of the best cities in Europe. Beautiful, wide streets, perfect weather. Huge tech scene & everything you can imagine. Food is next level. You can take the train and in 20 mins you will be in a nice uncrowded beach. The airport is a massive hub to go anywhere. FC Barcelona, huge huge football atmosphere. Tons of beautiful coworkings. Internet is ultra fast. Prices are expensive, but so is everything right now :(
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️4h$3,784 / mo🌇 Also went here832 peopleThe architecture is the most stunning thing of this place, it feels like the 22nd century. It's as cosmopolitan as a place like New York but more with people from the other side of the world. Great alternatives for getting coffee and food. Nightlife is expensive but it's good.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 51° 124° 35° 94°🥵AQI 162😷✈️5h$3,211 / mo🌇 Also went here580 peopleThe city got overcrowded, really expensive, overhyped, can believe it is still the number one destination for remote workers. Where ever the hype or FOMO goes, you should go the oppositive!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 27✈️5h$2,570 / mo🌇 Also went here627 people
