Daily/hourly pass needed.
Can’t work in normal café because having client’s laptop for security reasons, can’t use open networks. Working for R&D. Also laptop is so huge it doesn’t fit normal cafe environment because it’s far from discreet.
⭐️ Overall Score | 3.48/5 (Rank #127) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,086 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 2Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 13°C56°F (feels 12°C54°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 74% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 64 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😐 Moderate: 87 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🎓 Education level | Medium |
💰 Income level | Low |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍10 likes vs. 👎4 dislikes |
🙊 English speaking | Okay |
😤 People density | 🤨 Busy: 13k ppl/km² (9x9m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Great |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech | |
🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Region | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
⏱ Average trip duration | 10 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 13°C 56°F + 💦 Damp (74%) = feels 12°C 54°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 64 US AQI 🍃 good |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 87 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | French Concession North East |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Pudong North |
🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.54 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 154 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
💻 Best coworking space | Sandbox3 (free) |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Agora Space |
☕️ Best coffee place | See + Saw |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Baker & Spice |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Cafe 85ºC |
🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 14% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 7,201,200 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 138,011 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 24,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 9x9m (81m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Smart Shanghai |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Spring |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
🏥 Best hospital | ParkWay Health China |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,086 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,486 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,607 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,030 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $695 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $191 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $948 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $44 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $1,828 / month |
🏠 Airbnb | $60 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $5 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
Daily/hourly pass needed.
Can’t work in normal café because having client’s laptop for security reasons, can’t use open networks. Working for R&D. Also laptop is so huge it doesn’t fit normal cafe environment because it’s far from discreet.
My hotel is charging like 500RMB ($7USD) for a t-shirt, haha. So I need to find a cheap laundry place a la Thailand, here in Shanghai. I’m in the Jing’an area. Anyone knows?
Try Laundrytown. They offer free pickup and delivery. I think the rate for “wash & fold” is 25RMB per kg. They operate in several cities in Asia including Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo, Singapore and KL.
Ah you may find that a bit tough at Jing’an hotel I’m afraid, it’s an upmarket part of town and as you’ve definitely noticed Shanghai’s a different world than Thailand.
There are lots of hole in the wall dry cleaners scattered around the place who should do you a load of laundry for around 50 yuan or less. Ask a local to help you find a 洗衣服店 xǐ yīfú diàn literally ‘clothes wash shop’ not sure if that’s the perfect Chinese but it’ll work.
Otherwise the classic traveler’s trick of washing 'em in the sink then leaving them to dry.
Good luck, and welcome to the the Hai!
Thanks Nathan! That’s awesome, I’ll use that text to ask
Are you in Shanghai now too? I love this city
Cheers! Yeah been based here for exactly 1 year. I’m in the French concession. Are you around for long?
Yes! Until the 17th, just extended cause it’s too fun here
I’ll message you.
Very useful site this is, aye
Morning guys!
I just landed in Beijing few days ago and a bit freak with my gmail and social media channels, apparently the Google product is blocked (I didn’t know it forehead) so does others- Facebook, Twitter or other product.
My friend told me to use Zenmate but again, I couldn’t enter it.
By now while I’m typing I have tried all sorts of solutions which others recommended to me and so far, it doesn’t work… :(…
I hope you guys could help me with some tips and tricks…
Thanks a lot!!!
Hi Leona,
When I lived in Beijing I used WiTopia. It was pretty good and they have a 30 days money back policy. So you can subscribe and cancel if you are staying for a short period. Astrill was an alternative and quite popular among the expat community in Beijing. Honestly, I was the only one using WiTopia among my friends there.
PS: you can also drop fb and twitter and use their version renren and weibo heheheheh
Hi Leona,
If you need to use the Internet extensively in China, especially for getting work done, then the best solution would be getting a reliable paid VPN account. I use VPN every day in China and a lot of people I know do the same thing. The price would be around $10 per month, but in my opinion it’s definitely worth it (Just think about how much time you would waste on struggling with the Internet otherwise).
Please note that although there’re a number of VPN providers to choose from, not all of them work well in China. Some of them are completely blocked as well. To find out which VPNs work well in China, I’d recommend this website:
It’s a VPN testing site based in China. They test VPN from China and recommend reliable ones to be used in China. Here’s a list of VPNs recommended by VPNDada:
A rather good forum site for foreigners in China
http://raoulschinasaloon.com/
The admins are a bit cautious in weird ways. Auto text replacement gets rid of various phrases that might be searched for or might provoke the Great Firewall. Any mention of “VPN” or “virtual private network” becomes “very passable nicety”. Search for that to find the posts relevant to your problem
You have to use a VPN, which unfortunately, is very hard to download once you are already on the ground in China.
I recommend VyprVPN from about 6 months of personal experience. You can’t access their main website from China, but you can access https://www.goldenfrog.biz to download the installer.
Daily/hourly pass needed.
Can’t work in normal café because having client’s laptop for security reasons, can’t use open networks. Working for R&D. Also laptop is so huge it doesn’t fit normal cafe environment because it’s far from discreet.
My hotel is charging like 500RMB ($7USD) for a t-shirt, haha. So I need to find a cheap laundry place a la Thailand, here in Shanghai. I’m in the Jing’an area. Anyone knows?
Try Laundrytown. They offer free pickup and delivery. I think the rate for “wash & fold” is 25RMB per kg. They operate in several cities in Asia including Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo, Singapore and KL.
Ah you may find that a bit tough at Jing’an hotel I’m afraid, it’s an upmarket part of town and as you’ve definitely noticed Shanghai’s a different world than Thailand.
There are lots of hole in the wall dry cleaners scattered around the place who should do you a load of laundry for around 50 yuan or less. Ask a local to help you find a 洗衣服店 xǐ yīfú diàn literally ‘clothes wash shop’ not sure if that’s the perfect Chinese but it’ll work.
Otherwise the classic traveler’s trick of washing 'em in the sink then leaving them to dry.
Good luck, and welcome to the the Hai!
Thanks Nathan! That’s awesome, I’ll use that text to ask
Are you in Shanghai now too? I love this city
Cheers! Yeah been based here for exactly 1 year. I’m in the French concession. Are you around for long?
Yes! Until the 17th, just extended cause it’s too fun here
I’ll message you.
Very useful site this is, aye
Hi Team,
I’m totally new here so forgive me if I’ve made some horrible faux pas by asking a question so soon
I’m a kiwi but have been a digital nomad for over three years now, and have spent the last year or so in China, currently in Shanghai.
Are there many other digital nomads in this part of the world? Most of the international friends I’ve made locally are students or corpo expats, I’ve not come across that many entrepreneurial / nomadic types here - the visa and internet issues certainly make this understandable, though the country very much rewards long term travel.
Would be curious to see if there are many other like minded folk here?
Cheers,
Nathan
Hi Nathan,
From experience, Shenzhen and Guangzhou have a lot of expat/DN entrepreneurs manufacturing or sourcing locally. I’ve met a lot of people through Enter China.
I’ve visited both cities a fair amount over the past few years. Shenzhen seems more livable and diverse. If I had to pick one for a longer-term stay, I’d go with Shenzhen.
Hope that helps. I’ll be back in China in mid-November.
-Fred
I was in China - Shanghai and Shenzhen this year just for a few weeks for a business thing. I’m not aware of any specific DN scene in China. However, in Shanghai there are many expats so I would suggest looking up expat groups and teachers. I met up with a friend whilst there who’s a teacher and she gave me the lowdown on expat scene there. I think it would be easy enough to integrate so long as you were planning to stay a few months as opposed to a few weeks.
Thanks Phil! I definitely agree with your comments on Shanghai and actually have the same plan re moving to South East Asia next year and getting a bit more nomadic (ie changing home every couple of months rather than every year). Thanks for the tip re meetup!
Hi Natahan,
I was such a corpo expat in Shanghai for two years before leaving to South East Asia and becoming a DN a year ago. I must say I found the (international) internet too weak to stay there and work online. Besides that, I also wasn’t that happy there (air pollution was one of the biggest issues for me). But that wasn’t your question. Just wanted to suggest checking related groups on meetup.com. I found some entrepreneur meetups and attended one or two. Was quite interesting, although not many of the members were nomads as such (there might be some though and it comes the closest to the nomad scene that I find in SEA).
Good luck,
Phil
Hi,
I’m a DN in Beijing, though I run an all-remote startup rather than lifestyle business. I do like the city life here, and I’m just starting to connect with the local startup scene. I haven’t run into other DNs, but I don’t use coworking places. I just know students (since I studied Chinese for a semester here). I’m aware of the corpo-expat types, but don’t know any.
If it exists, there’s a wechat group for it! So keep asking around
One good web resource for foreigners in China is Raoul’s China Expat Saloon. Nothing specifically for nomads, but lots of long-term residents & some good advice. I’ve left China and am no longer a regular, but you may see the odd post from me, user name ‘Pashley’.
http://raoulschinasaloon.com/
Hi Nathan!
I’m Chinese and I grew up in a city near Shanghai. I recently left the US after living there for 5 years. I’m back visiting my family for a couple of months. I’m a newbie digital nomad, still exploring different options. I’m curious to know if there are other DNs in the area as well
Kindly,
Meiyi
你好 Meiyi!
Great to hear from you and welcome back to China.
Although Shanghai is a thriving expat city, I haven’t gotten a sense of it as much of a digital nomad hub. Cost of living is pretty high compared to other Asian cities, internet is not great and the visa issues can be complex… despite this though I’ve found it more than worth it! As @nickdanforth mentioned above I feel that there are more DN types around Beijing, certainly most other freelance writers I know in the country are based there.
You must have an interesting perspective on this as a local, having grown up here but spent many years in the US.
Cheers!
Nathan
你好 Nathan!
I’m glad you’ve found the DN experience in Shanghai rewarding despite all the challenges! It’s interesting to hear that there are more DNs in Beijing. I wonder if it’s mainly because they’re drawn to the long history of the city?
Indeed, coming back to China has been an interesting experience. Over the years my Chinese got a bit rusty, now it’s coming back quickly, but after having lived here for 2 months, English is still my primary language, it’s still the language that will jump out of my mouth if I react to things subconsciously. I have experienced quite some counter-cultural shocks but I’m finding the balance between cultures now. Jumping the line, fine; lack of personal space, fine; chaos, that’s fine too. I am awestruck by the progress this country has made in infrastructure and technology, but I’m also deeply concerned about its rising nationalism and racism and its lack of diversity. It’s been an interesting experience
Kindly,
Meiyi
Thanks for the reply Nick! How did you find Beijing as base?
Almost every foreigner I know who lives there seems to love the place, but again that’s mostly expats / students instead of ‘nomads.’
Daily life here is pretty good for ‘digital nomad’ style work compared to other Chinese cities I’ve visited, great cafes (and let’s be honest, bars) to work and write from, and finding a tolerable wifi connection is normally possible. Certainly an expensive place though, so my next destination will probably be somewhere cheaper
Hey Nathan!
My wife and I aren’t currently in China but we’ve spent about 6 months in Beijing on-and-off over the last couple years.
Would love to check out Shanghai, just haven’t gotten around to it yet! Hear there’s a decent co-working scene there and it looks like a sweet city for daily life.
Might try to come scope it out for a couple weeks later this year!
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 468° cold | 436° cold | 5915° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° warm | 9937° hot | 10943° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 5412° cool |
Real | 489° cold | 468° cold | 5915° cool | 6720° mild | 7725° warm | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6720° mild | 5412° cool |
Humidity | nice 67% | damp 74% | nice 64% | nice 71% | nice 58% | nice 76% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 75% | nice 67% | nice 64% | nice 65% |
Rain | dry 20mm | dry 49mm | dry 31mm | dry 32mm | dry 24mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 69mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 65mm | dry 25mm | dry 17mm | rainy 51mm |
Cloud | cloudy 80% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 86% | pockets 31% | pockets 40% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 62% |
Air quality | bad 118 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI | bad 128 US AQI | bad 119 US AQI | bad 105 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI |
Sun | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI |
Nomad List members | 4 people | 2 people | 3 people | 4 people | 3 people | 2 people | 2 people | 3 people | 3 people | 3 people | 4 people | 5 people |
Based on Shanghai's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
As an expat in Ningbo the past two years, these scores aren’t really accurate in my opinion. I can’t imagine thinking Ningbo wasn’t one of the most peaceful places or that it was unfit for children. Maybe a bit boring at times, but there’s a whole bar strip called “Laowaitan” which literally means Foreigner town full of bars and live music. Not sure who scored this city or what experience they might have had.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety okayTap to open🌤 Feels 13° 55° 12° 54°AQI 57✈️12min$1,796 / mo2Mbps×Definitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun okay👮 Safety okayTap to open✈️1h$2,375 / mo2Mbps×Hong Kong is a fabulous city - from big city living, to isolated beaches, outlying islands and hikes through mountainous terrain. The big downside is it's EXPENSIVE. You need to have a decent salary to live here - otherwise, it would be tough. Hong Kong island is the most expensive, but more affordable places are possible, the further you are willing to travel. It's quite a transient city, so probably pretty easy to make connections!
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 76😷✈️2h$2,564 / mo70Mbps×Really enjoying Seoul so far. It is very hard to make friends at first as not many people will speak English or are too afraid to. Maybe easier in Itaewon. For phone service, I was able to get month to month service on KT with unlimited data for only 35,000 won a month. Check out the desk with a sign in Thai on the electronics floor at IPark Mall connected to Yonsan station for this deal. They speak great English as well.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 65✈️1h$2,374 / mo20Mbps×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 14✈️2h$3,396 / mo28Mbps×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 126😷✈️4h$1,111 / mo22Mbps×They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵AQI 46✈️5h$2,874 / mo93Mbps×As one of the most livable cities in China, Hangzhou has developed economy and technology, many tourist attractions, an open and inclusive city!
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety okayTap to open🌦 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 28✈️15min$1,424 / mo2Mbps×Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 125😷✈️4h$1,461 / mo22Mbps×First time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun okay👮 Safety okayTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 56✈️5h$1,304 / mo18Mbps×Definitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun okay👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 73✈️55min$2,024 / mo18Mbps×Really enjoying Seoul so far. It is very hard to make friends at first as not many people will speak English or are too afraid to. Maybe easier in Itaewon. For phone service, I was able to get month to month service on KT with unlimited data for only 35,000 won a month. Check out the desk with a sign in Thai on the electronics floor at IPark Mall connected to Yonsan station for this deal. They speak great English as well.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌥 Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 65✈️1h$2,374 / mo🌇 Also went here158 people×Definitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun okay👮 Safety okayTap to open✈️1h$2,375 / mo🌇 Also went here188 people×Hong Kong is a fabulous city - from big city living, to isolated beaches, outlying islands and hikes through mountainous terrain. The big downside is it's EXPENSIVE. You need to have a decent salary to live here - otherwise, it would be tough. Hong Kong island is the most expensive, but more affordable places are possible, the further you are willing to travel. It's quite a transient city, so probably pretty easy to make connections!
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 76😷✈️2h$2,564 / mo🌇 Also went here207 people×Tokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 14✈️2h$3,396 / mo🌇 Also went here184 people×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 83°AQI 126😷✈️4h$1,111 / mo🌇 Also went here165 people×It used to have a lot of character and charm but all the construction is making the city lose its culture. Apartments and accommodation are ridiculously expensive. 300 to 500 a month for tiny rooms in a shared house. For single guys go elsewhere. Women here are rude, ultra conservative and have flat personalities with nothing going for them. Food is okay but plenty of MSG and food safety is atrocious. In addition motorists are aggressive and plenty of accidents take place. Don't live here i
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 87°🥵AQI 174😷✈️4h$984 / mo🌇 Also went here151 people×Don't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 125😷✈️4h$1,461 / mo🌇 Also went here223 people×First time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun okay👮 Safety okayTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 56✈️5h$1,304 / mo🌇 Also went here171 people×They say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵AQI 46✈️5h$2,874 / mo🌇 Also went here192 people×Berlin 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
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety okayTap to open✈️11h$3,057 / mo🌇 Also went here169 people×One giant tourist trap. Giant hordes of rich Europeans vacationing with their parents credit cards.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌧 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 17✈️12h$4,483 / mo🌇 Also went here165 people×London is a SO beautiful city. The historical center is cute, but also majestic and luxurious. You feel the culture at every step. British people are really kind and welcoming! Plus, more than just one, you can enjoy TWO skylines 😍 so many skyscrapers, nothing beats its collection in Europe.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety okayTap to open☀️ Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 48✈️12h$4,125 / mo🌇 Also went here194 people×Super fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety okayTap to open🌥 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 38✈️12h$4,305 / mo🌇 Also went here171 people×During winter is quite safe plus much cheaper. Some nightclubs are free and yet there is still a lot of people. Great por lgbtq+ community.
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety okayTap to open🌤 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 41✈️13h$2,929 / mo🌇 Also went here154 people×Having spent a total of two weeks in London on two separate occasions and having lived in NYC for two years, both are among my favorite cities in the world. Londoners are quite internationally and ethnically diverse, and seemingly better educated and more intellectual than New Yorkers in aggregate. The city very clean with a stunning mix of modern and historic architecture, and arguably has Europe's best public transit in terms of signage, availability, cleanliness and general efficiency. Meanw
⭐️ Overall Score 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 Internet 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 49✈️16h$4,636 / mo🌇 Also went here195 people×
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