⭐️ Total score | 2.52/5 (Rank #240) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,290 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 20Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C85°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 85% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Great |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 20 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (85%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 1.94 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 194 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Coworking Inovae |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azul |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Azul |
🏥 Best hospital | Natal Hospital Center |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,290 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $549 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,116 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $319 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $781 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $767 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $181 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $25 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $354 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $4,064 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $10 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,200 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $10,460 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $28,475 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
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Feels | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm |
Real | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8027° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | nice 39% | nice 40% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 42% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 39% | nice 39% | nice 40% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | dry 11mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 130mm | rainy 140mm | dry 20mm | rainy 93mm | rainy 62mm | dry 45mm | dry 30mm | dry 18mm | rainy 57mm |
Cloud | pockets 41% | pockets 37% | pockets 33% | pockets 43% | pockets 31% | pockets 29% | pockets 32% | pockets 34% | pockets 27% | pockets 33% | pockets 33% | pockets 42% |
Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI |
Remote workers | 250 people | 280 people | 257 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 600 people | 250 people | 200 people | 229 people | 267 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵✈️2h$1,464 / mo20Mbps×literally one of the worst cities I have ever been, not safe at all, nothing to do, full of retired people, just skip it, Brazil has way better places than this horrible city
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵✈️4h$1,518 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 20° 68° 20° 69°AQI 65😷✈️6h$1,469 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 46✈️8h$3,870 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 32✈️8h$3,929 / mo🌇 Also went here17 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 37✈️9h$5,010 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 45✈️9h$5,024 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 46✈️10h$5,462 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 32✈️10h$6,055 / mo🌇 Also went here16 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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