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| ⭐️ Total score | 245 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Turkey |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 11 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 18°C 65°F + 😊 Comfy (72%) = feels 19°C 66°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 133 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 33 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | TurkCell |
| 💸 100 TRY in USD | USD 7.31 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TRY 1,000 = USD 73 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Caribou Coffee |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,800,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $10,863 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Hepsiburada |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sahibinden |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | EasyJet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Turkish Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Doruk Bursa |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $920 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $329 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $250 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $71 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $37 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $17 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,535 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $72 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 88 listings) | $973 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $32 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $17,500 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $35,000 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $87,500 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Safe for women
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Feels | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5915° cool | 6619° mild | 7524° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 9133° hot | 8429° warm | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 5412° cool |
| Real | 5010° cold | 5010° cold | 5915° cool | 6418° cool | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8127° warm | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 5412° cool |
| Humidity | nice 68% | nice 67% | nice 56% | nice 64% | nice 59% | nice 65% | nice 59% | nice 61% | nice 61% | nice 68% | nice 55% | nice 68% |
| Rain | dry 42mm | dry 22mm | dry 15mm | dry 24mm | dry 30mm | rainy 160mm | dry 21mm | dry 12mm | dry 8mm | dry 20mm | dry 24mm | dry 40mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 65% | pockets 45% | pockets 27% | pockets 40% | pockets 47% | pockets 21% | clear 2% | clear 0% | clear 6% | clear 6% | pockets 41% | cloudy 70% |
| Air quality | bad 138 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 55 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 11 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | bad 114 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 155😷✈️6h$1,176 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 91😷✈️9h$983 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleCheep bear and party place. But only have 3-4 beautiful places to visit. I stayed 5 days and thanks! There are more beautiful places in Asia than Hanoi. I don´t think I come back. Good food and cheap but nothing more..
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 28° 82°AQI 114😷✈️10h$1,296 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleLiving in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 63✈️10h$1,296 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleSiem Riep has a nice suburb feeling. At first sight it seems there's not much to do besides Angkor Wat and Pub Street, but you can go swimming, do bicycle tours, floating village day trip... I don't have best social skill, but in Siem Reap it was so easy to make new friends. Locals and tourists! I've worked at Garage Society Coworking Space. Pretty nice place. I don't understand the cons of slow internet. I've bought an LTE 4G Sim card for 10 USD with 10 GB. There's also free and mostly fast
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 81°AQI 78😷✈️10h$1,339 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peoplePhnom Penh has plenty of air conditioned cafes and some co-working spaces, so it's quite possible to get work done. The river front area feels nice and spacious but other than that I didn't find it a particular pleasant city, and wouldn't stay for more a few days. Kampot, however, 4 hours away by bus, has been one of the best places I've stayed. The atmosphere is great, it's a small town with nice architecture, hip cafes, yoga classes, and a riverfront to stroll along. It's much calmer than any
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 89😷✈️11h$1,254 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleThe noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 52✈️11h$1,090 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 114😷✈️11h$4,912 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleOnly thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 89😷✈️11h$950 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 85°🥵AQI 59✈️11h$1,221 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleThey 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 46✈️12h$3,063 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 168😷✈️14h$1,322 / mo🌇 Also went here6 people
