⭐️ Total score |
1.81/5 (Rank #1302)
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❤️ Liked by members |
👍13% liked it 👎88% disliked it
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👍 Quality of life score |
Bad |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,489 / mo
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📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 12Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Too hot: 31°C87°F (feels 38°C100°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 70%
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Good: 54 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Okay
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🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Okay
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Okay
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$246 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Good |
😤 People density |
🤨 Busy: 14k ppl/km² (1 per 9x9m)
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🚶 Walkability |
Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Okay |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Philippines |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 31°C 87°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 38°C 100°F
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💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 54 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 60Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Makati City |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Quezon City |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 100 PHP in USD | USD 1.71 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PHP 10,000 = USD 171 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Co.lab |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | ASpace |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍16% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 1,320,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 25,298 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,951 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 9x9m (81m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ayosdito |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Philippine |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,489 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,032 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,296 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $656 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $653 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,431 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $441 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $31 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $47 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $121 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $11,966 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $14 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Very safe in certain areas (e.g., Makati, BGC)
✅ Friendly and hospitable locals
✅ Convenient amenities and services
✅ Variety of food options available
✅ Access to entertainment and activities
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
❌ High traffic congestion
❌ Poor public transport
❌ Unpleasant living conditions in many areas
❌ High cost of living for quality options
❌ Limited free WiFi access
❌ Health concerns regarding food quality
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not much to do
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
❌ Marijuana is illegal
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
84
29° warm |
82
28° warm |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
88
31° hot |
86
30° warm |
86
30° warm |
86
30° warm |
86
30° warm |
82
28° warm |
Real |
84
29°
very warm |
84
29°
very warm |
89
32°
hot |
89
32°
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90
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88
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86
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very warm |
86
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86
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86
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86
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84
29°
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Humidity |
nice 38% |
nice 37% |
nice 36% |
nice 35% |
nice 36% |
nice 41% |
nice 44% |
nice 43% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 38% |
nice 37% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain |
dry 33mm |
dry 24mm |
dry 31mm |
dry 21mm |
rainy 68mm |
rainy 178mm |
rainy 323mm |
rainy 323mm |
rainy 329mm |
rainy 170mm |
dry 50mm |
rainy 62mm |
Cloud |
pockets 47% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 34% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 54% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 47% |
Air quality |
okay 74 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
clean 37 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
clean 33 US AQI |
clean 24 US AQI |
clean 25 US AQI |
okay 74 US AQI |
okay 52 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
Sun |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 1,176 people | 1,147 people | 1,120 people | 1,183 people | 850 people | 754 people | 782 people | 680 people | 850 people | 1,250 people | 1,057 people | 1,157 people |
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Makati greenbelt and rockwell are nice enough to stay long-term. Especially greenbelt is clean and safe, the greenbelt mall and park is outstanding. Around greenbelt you have three decent sized parks available. Outside of this small bubble of cosiness its chaos dirt and sketchiness. Stay away from Poblacion, its just disgusting. Best bet for a clean and comfortable place to stay are hotels and serviced apartments. Avoid airbnb, its all trash. BGC is another alternative, tough I don't like it muc
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87° 🥵 🚕13min $1,636 / mo 12 Mbps ×Much cooler climate due to the altitude and a lot of good nature settings (some of the parks require 100 Pesos entry). Still has the comforts of a city with a big SM mall and good shops and restaurants. Absolutely packed in summer as it's a popular vacation destination for locals. Getting around can be difficult because only taxis are allowed, not ride-sharing, and the taxis are in high demand. Grab app only shows taxis and often fails to secure a ride. That said, the city is compact and traffi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79° 🥵 ✈️16min $1,660 / mo 12 Mbps ×Best suited for surfers..
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️18min $1,679 / mo 12 Mbps ×It's a fantastic spot for kitesurfing nomads within the season: you can kitesurf on the windy side of the island or go to the White Beach where the wind doesn't reach and chill on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It's a small island, so expect to start bumping into people you know after a couple of days, but it's got enough to offer to keep you entertained for a couple of weeks, and if you kitesurf even longer. There are some apartment with internet speed allowing you to work fr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️25min $2,242 / mo 12 Mbps ×This city doesn't deserve to be ahead of cities like Da Nang or Chiang Mai. Still way to underdeveloped. Yes a lot of coffees for wifi but dirty and overall not great conditions for nomads. You'll not find almost any nomads there. I would skip it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️46min $1,380 / mo 26 Mbps ×Been there for a week, in March 2022, and If you happen to stay in El nido, you should definitely go to FRENDZ, where they have a nice open space where you can work, and the connection speed was like 300down/100up!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85° 🥵 ✈️47min $1,408 / mo 12 Mbps ×I’ve come to expect a few challenges, but General Luna (including Back Road, Cloud 9, and Malinao) takes it to another level. The people are lovely, the food is ok, housing can be pricey. TL;DR: If you want to work reliably, find a place with fiber internet and solar power, or a generator that can run all day, which are the more expensive places. First off, forget about maintaining a regular work schedule. Power cuts, blackouts, and brownouts are the norm here. Whether planned or due to loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84° ✈️1h $1,742 / mo 35 Mbps ×- Relaxed city to live in and incredibly safe. Nice if you want access to nature in southern Taiwan. Not so much english but locals are very friendly and will always try to help you. - Lots of cheap food available but while some is tasty, most is highly processed and full of oil/sugar . If you want decent quality food, it won't be much cheaper than back home. Many restaurants have an order card, so if you can't speak chinese you can grab the card and a pencil and use your phone to translate the
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,444 / mo 32 Mbps ×The Middle Ages meet industrial-age pollution: this is a grimy tropical backwater with none of Taipei's vibrancy, efficiency or even politeness. Cycle or hike in the quote-unquote national park north of the city for marshes, dengue fever, junkyards, stray dogs, and massive concrete jetties obstructing ocean views.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 70 😷 ✈️1h $1,610 / mo 26 Mbps ×I was here for almost three weeks last month. The internet is fast, and the surroundings are beautiful. The people are friendly, and most of them speak English well. I never felt unsafe during my stay. If you know where to go, there's plenty to do. There are many lovely parks, and the food is delicious and surprisingly affordable (I highly recommend Roxas). The shopping centers are of high quality. It's best to install the Grab app or take taxis for transportation. Public transportation can take
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,293 / mo 29 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,135 / mo 12 Mbps ×
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76° AQI 38 ✈️1h $1,961 / mo 31 Mbps ×
This city doesn't deserve to be ahead of cities like Da Nang or Chiang Mai. Still way to underdeveloped. Yes a lot of coffees for wifi but dirty and overall not great conditions for nomads. You'll not find almost any nomads there. I would skip it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️46min $1,380 / mo 26 Mbps ×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️3h $1,358 / mo 90 Mbps ×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️3h $6,062 / mo 74 Mbps ×I love Taipei, extremely underrated place—not sure why, though I'm fine with that. The cleanliness, amenities, and kindness of the people will remind you of Tokyo.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82° 🥵 AQI 50 ✈️2h $2,070 / mo 90 Mbps ×Hong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️1h $2,925 / mo 66 Mbps ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️4h $3,081 / mo 75 Mbps ×It's a fantastic spot for kitesurfing nomads within the season: you can kitesurf on the windy side of the island or go to the White Beach where the wind doesn't reach and chill on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It's a small island, so expect to start bumping into people you know after a couple of days, but it's got enough to offer to keep you entertained for a couple of weeks, and if you kitesurf even longer. There are some apartment with internet speed allowing you to work fr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️25min $2,242 / mo 12 Mbps ×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 65 😷 ✈️3h $1,267 / mo 64 Mbps ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️3h $994 / mo 87 Mbps ×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 79° AQI 50 ✈️4h $1,844 / mo 50 Mbps ×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️2h $1,030 / mo 53 Mbps ×Absolutely beautiful country. Everything functions well. Cost is low. Endless beautiful cafes and sights. Cons: The locals are not very friendly. Need an app for everything because English is not common.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️3h $2,557 / mo 85 Mbps ×Hong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️1h $2,925 / mo 🌇 Also went here199 people ×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️2h $1,030 / mo 🌇 Also went here187 people ×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️3h $1,358 / mo 🌇 Also went here356 people ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️3h $994 / mo 🌇 Also went here216 people ×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️3h $6,062 / mo 🌇 Also went here266 people ×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 65 😷 ✈️3h $1,267 / mo 🌇 Also went here231 people ×Lived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86° 🥵 ✈️3h $1,620 / mo 🌇 Also went here158 people ×Absolutely beautiful country. Everything functions well. Cost is low. Endless beautiful cafes and sights. Cons: The locals are not very friendly. Need an app for everything because English is not common.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️3h $2,557 / mo 🌇 Also went here172 people ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️4h $3,081 / mo 🌇 Also went here225 people ×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° AQI 46 ✈️13h $3,831 / mo 🌇 Also went here164 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 good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67° AQI 27 ✈️14h $5,666 / mo 🌇 Also went here160 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 good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 25 ✈️14h $5,697 / mo 🌇 Also went here196 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 mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72° AQI 55 😷 ✈️14h $5,439 / mo 🌇 Also went here177 people ×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85° AQI 34 ✈️15h $4,598 / mo 🌇 Also went here164 people ×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78° ✈️18h $6,831 / mo 🌇 Also went here175 people ×
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