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| ⭐️ Total score | 205 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Colombia |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 15°C 58°F + 💦 Damp (100%) = feels 15°C 59°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 57 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 63 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Claro Colombia |
| 💸 10,000 COP in USD | USD 2.65 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | COP 1,000,000 = USD 265 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 310,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,806 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Falabella |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $660 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $329 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $612 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $175 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $106 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $97 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $565 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $26 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (125 listings) | $592 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $19 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Cold all year round
❌ Very damp now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Humidity | damp 89% | damp 95% | damp 95% | damp 97% | damp 93% | damp 92% | damp 83% | damp 75% | damp 80% | damp 92% | damp 97% | damp 96% |
| Rain | dry 49mm | rainy 65mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 128mm | dry 31mm | dry 17mm | dry 49mm | rainy 109mm | rainy 109mm | rainy 101mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 77% | overcast 90% | overcast 92% | overcast 95% | overcast 92% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 81% |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 78°🥵AQI 102😷✈️21min$1,107 / mo12Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 8° 46° 8° 46°AQI 29✈️27min$1,572 / mo19Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 65✈️34min$1,148 / mo11Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 70✈️38min$1,361 / mo6MbpsIt gets chilly at night and most places don't have a heater, so pack some extra thick socks! Felt quite safe compared to other latinAm countries. This had a safer vibe than Guayaquil and all was very affordable. People are friendly. Went to the zoo, spa, a few hiking trails and such but otherwise not much to do. Great if you wanna hunker down for a few months and live cheaply in a quieter part of Ecuador.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 72✈️42min$1,060 / mo9MbpsMedellin is a very nice place! Good options of restaurants, hotels and places to hangout. En EL Poblado you have a good variety of bars and places to hangout. At Medellin i worked from the hotel and from a famous shopping mall (EL TESORO) witch has dedicated places, with very good structure os desks, chairs and wi fi for digital nomads (Nómadas Espacio de Coworking).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 109😷✈️47min$1,058 / mo10Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 70✈️58min$1,204 / mo16Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 50✈️1h$781 / mo10Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 70✈️1h$887 / mo15MbpsI was there for one week and stayed in Bocagrande, about a 10 minute taxi ride from the Walled City. Pros of Cartagena: Inexpensive locale, reliable and fast internet, good weather (if you like it hot), not terribly crowded (aside from Walled City), beauty/history/nightlife of Walled City. Cons: Local beaches are average at best and riddled with vendors who accost visitors non-stop, street vendors are less pushy but everywhere, fluency in Spanish is very helpful (not really a con, just is),
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 72✈️42min$1,060 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleMedellin is a very nice place! Good options of restaurants, hotels and places to hangout. En EL Poblado you have a good variety of bars and places to hangout. At Medellin i worked from the hotel and from a famous shopping mall (EL TESORO) witch has dedicated places, with very good structure os desks, chairs and wi fi for digital nomads (Nómadas Espacio de Coworking).
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 53✈️1h$1,417 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 50✈️1h$909 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleNothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 57✈️12h$2,880 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleFlorence is one of the most beautiful city in the world! Here you have the opportunity to taste real genuine, fresh and organic food and experience great wines (such a Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Nobile di Montepulciano, Bolgheri Sassicaia, Ornellaia and much more) ! Think that Italy is the only country in the world where each region produce a different kind of wine with different kind of local grapes. It is a real bless for palate. Italians are friendly and locals even more. Almost e
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 50✈️13h$3,620 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 46✈️13h$4,072 / mo🌇 Also went here1 peopleCool city with lots of fun places to go out, very nice restaurants and quite an international environment. I went there twice already and in winter it's horribly cold, while in summer it's super hot. Definitely recommend going there in Spring/Autumn. The castle is nice and Danube riverside is great too, you'll get lots of things to do. Can recommend Nomad Traveller's Bar and there daily pubcrawl! Also, to all fellow vegans, the food scene is great. Lot's of places order vegan options and if you
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