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| ⭐️ Overall score | 219 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 21 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Suzhou is fast averaging 24 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~3 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 81 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 155 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Kalerm Company |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Dio Coffee |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Pingjiangfu Suzhou |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,300,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | FullHome |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Singhealth Medical Clinic |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,258 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,032 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,825 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $521 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $488 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $94 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $589 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $2,019 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $66 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 457° cold | 457° cold | 5915° cool | 7021° mild | 7725° warm | 8831° hot | 10440° hot | 10842° scorching | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 5010° cold |
| Real | 468° cold | 468° cold | 5915° cool | 6921° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 6720° mild | 5211° cool |
| Humidity | nice 69% | damp 72% | nice 65% | nice 68% | nice 55% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 74% | nice 66% | nice 63% | nice 69% |
| Rain | dry 22mm | rainy 50mm | dry 28mm | dry 22mm | dry 24mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 101mm | rainy 54mm | dry 7mm | dry 15mm | dry 39mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 84% | cloudy 88% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 78% | pockets 37% | pockets 25% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 57% | pockets 40% |
| Air quality | bad 130 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 123 US AQI | bad 115 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 136 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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