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| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 226 reviews |
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| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
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| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 8 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 32 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather | ☀️ 14°C 58°F + 💦 Humid (65%) + 💨 6km/h = feels like 14°C 57°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 38 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 59 US AQI equal to 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | T Mobile |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Gravitate |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Mars Cafe |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Java Joes Coffeehouse |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Dunkin Donuts |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 220,000 people |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | United |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Iowa Lutheran Hospital |
| no-beachnon-touristycoldcold nowclean airgood air qualityfast internethigh cost of livinghigh humidityfreedom of pressdemocracyfreedommany womenfriendly people |
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $3,129 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,988 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,589 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,311 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,000 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $250 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $2,135 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $100 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (36 listings) | $2,167 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $71 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $10 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
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| Feels like | 25-4° freezing | 21-6° freezing | 436° very cold | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 8429° very warm | 10440° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 6116° cool | 415° very cold | 436° very cold |
| Real temperature | 30-1° freezing | 28-3° freezing | 468° cold | 6619° mild | 7021° mild | 8127° warm | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 6116° cool | 447° cold | 468° cold |
| Humidity | damp 76% | damp 81% | comfy 68% | comfy 64% | comfy 73% | comfy 68% | comfy 67% | comfy 68% | sweaty 76% | comfy 70% | comfy 69% | damp 72% |
| Rain | rainy 60mm | rainy 51mm | rainy 135mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 408mm | rainy 266mm | rainy 190mm | rainy 233mm | rainy 223mm | rainy 232mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 54mm |
| Cloud cover | cloudy 68% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 71% | pockets 48% | pockets 26% | pockets 38% | pockets 39% | pockets 47% | pockets 42% | cloudy 50% |
| Air quality | clean 33 AQI | clean 39 AQI | clean 31 AQI | clean 31 AQI | clean 32 AQI | clean 33 AQI | clean 36 AQI | clean 33 AQI | clean 31 AQI | clean 22 AQI | clean 30 AQI | clean 34 AQI |
| UV Index | safe 2 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Nomad List members there | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBT friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
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