⭐️ Total score |
2.74/5 (Rank #705)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Good |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,710 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🏎 Fast: 16Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Perfect: 28°C82°F (feels 34°C93°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 90%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Great: 34 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Okay |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$493 / mo
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❤️ Liked by members |
👍53% liked it 👎47% disliked it
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Good |
🍸 Nightlife |
Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Good |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Thailand |
⏱ Average trip length | 10 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (90%) = feels 34°C 93°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Fisherman's Village |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Bang Kao |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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📱 Best wireless carrier | AIS |
💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.82 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 282 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | The Big Buddha |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 2,500,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 47,912 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 63,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,911 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
🏥 Best hospital | Bangkok Hospital Samui |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,710 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,399 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,411 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $689 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $564 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $169 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $602 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 633 listings) | $3,005 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $99 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Nomad List members didn't like going here
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Feels |
77
25° warm |
84
29° warm |
88
31° hot |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
90
32° hot |
88
31° hot |
88
31° hot |
88
31° hot |
84
29° warm |
84
29° warm |
Real |
77
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warm |
79
26°
warm |
81
27°
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82
28°
very warm |
82
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very warm |
82
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very warm |
82
28°
very warm |
81
27°
warm |
81
27°
warm |
81
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warm |
79
26°
warm |
79
26°
warm |
Humidity |
nice 81% |
nice 78% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 82% |
nice 86% |
nice 79% |
Rain |
dry 38mm |
dry 18mm |
dry 31mm |
rainy 136mm |
rainy 143mm |
rainy 112mm |
rainy 143mm |
rainy 165mm |
rainy 177mm |
rainy 199mm |
rainy 700mm |
rainy 126mm |
Cloud |
cloudy 65% |
pockets 43% |
pockets 48% |
cloudy 83% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 87% |
overcast 92% |
cloudy 89% |
overcast 92% |
cloudy 89% |
overcast 93% |
cloudy 64% |
Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
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avoid sun 7 UVI |
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Remote workers | 1,100 people | 960 people | 900 people | 943 people | 500 people | 600 people | 1,000 people | 760 people | 467 people | 444 people | 640 people | 750 people |
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Beautiful island. For me it hits a sweet spot combining some of Canggu and Ubud. There's good stuff like breath work and ecstatic dance close by but you don't have to scooter a whole hour to get there. It's not too hippy and you can easily avoid that vibe if you're not into it. The mountainous landscape makes for some lovely scootering - so nice that I've taken a few rides just for the pleasure of it. The bigger roads are lit at night and pretty good, not much traffic. Compared to Bali many re
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 34 🚕35min $1,060 / mo 17 Mbps ×"Off the record, however, they told of an island held in the iron grip of a mafia family, who demanded protection money, controlled the local police force and were not above attacking or burning down the homes and businesses of people that crossed them" I don't think Koh Tao is dangerous in terms of absolute risk. Many tourists pass through, and not that many got murdered (under a dozen over several years, as far as I know, some cases might really be suicide). Riding a motorbike anywhere in Tha
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 AQI 34 🚕2h $1,297 / mo 16 Mbps ×Krabi is a nice weekend getaway if you stay in Bangkok and wanna escape the city for a few days. That being said, the best area for staying is Ao Nang beach. From here, you can go to the famous Railay beach with a longtail boat within 15 minutes and also the tours to Phi Phi and Hong Island start from here. There is a club called Upbeat Bar/Loft RNB in the middle of Ao Nang that gets kinda busy, although not super crowded in the rainy season. Maybe main season is different. Stay away from Krabi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️16min $1,007 / mo 17 Mbps ×Ao Nang is a Good Hub for jumping into other beaches and islands. A few services are available for everyday use ( restaurants, bars, laundry, markets, shops, etc ). Still, I consider it quite underdevelop. Internet connectivity was quite intermittent on the two places I stayed. Also, not many places to get work done! I always worked from my villa room. Highly suggest staying by Nopparatthara beach rather than Ao Nang side. No many nomads in here aswell
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️17min $1,082 / mo 17 Mbps ×It's basically a party island -- getting work done will require discipline. One who can accomplish that will be rewarded with a paradisiac cheerful enviroment where everyone wants to be happy and enjoy life. In long term, be careful with your emotional life, as new flows of people everyday going in and out might unbalance your way to see the world.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️19min $1,371 / mo 16 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 23 ✈️19min $1,387 / mo 16 Mbps ×
Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️20min $1,194 / mo 17 Mbps ×Was really looking forward to Hua Hin after everything we had read. On the plus side, everything is very accessible and of course loads of high quality Thai food everywhere, mixed in with a bunch of expat options. Found the western-style markets and prices in general to be considerably more (in relative terms) than Bangkok. I imagine this is due to the large expat community here. Having said that, Covid has decimated the place and many expats have left. As an example, it’s Friday evening here
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌤 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88° 🥵 AQI 1 ✈️27min $1,936 / mo 23 Mbps ×One of the most beautiful islands I've ever been to (been to a lot) But, for vacation. For living there, there is just not so much to do.
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Spent 2 months in 2011 and 3 month in 2012, amazing chill place. Waterfalls, wildlife, white sand beaches, local authentic fishermen villages (on both sides of island). One of my favorite places in Thailand, miss it so much (been in Samui, Chiang Mai, Pai, BKK, Pattaya, Ranong, total 2 years). Pai and Koh Chang, and Pattaya, are my top favorite places in Thailand.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️30min $937 / mo 16 Mbps ×Unbelievably a great place to live! Forget Pattaya downtown and go for Jomtiem instead, with a more family-oriented enviroment, delicious street food and russian/scandinavian communities. You can live in great places with seaview paying less than you would pay for a regular place in Bangkok, with all the traffic and pollution. Also, Koh Larn island, an island 20 minutes far by boat is a gift, with pristine and clean beaches like the most famous islands in Thailand.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️31min $1,150 / mo 16 Mbps ×I've been to Bangkok for almost two weeks now and I can't understand comments about the lack of soul or everything being on sale. Sure, there are some sketchy parts like massage parlour touts and an occasional ladyboy here and there, but overall my impression is that it's just a regular big city with some clear advantages. Coming from Central Europe, I find everybody to be very calm and polite. Some may argue it's just a facade and fair enough, but I prefer a calm and kind facade over cold and i
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 70 ✈️38min $1,273 / mo 19 Mbps ×Beautiful island. For me it hits a sweet spot combining some of Canggu and Ubud. There's good stuff like breath work and ecstatic dance close by but you don't have to scooter a whole hour to get there. It's not too hippy and you can easily avoid that vibe if you're not into it. The mountainous landscape makes for some lovely scootering - so nice that I've taken a few rides just for the pleasure of it. The bigger roads are lit at night and pretty good, not much traffic. Compared to Bali many re
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 34 🚕35min $1,060 / mo 17 Mbps ×"Off the record, however, they told of an island held in the iron grip of a mafia family, who demanded protection money, controlled the local police force and were not above attacking or burning down the homes and businesses of people that crossed them" I don't think Koh Tao is dangerous in terms of absolute risk. Many tourists pass through, and not that many got murdered (under a dozen over several years, as far as I know, some cases might really be suicide). Riding a motorbike anywhere in Tha
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 AQI 34 🚕2h $1,297 / mo 16 Mbps ×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 26° 80° 🥵 AQI 12 ✈️1h $931 / mo 17 Mbps ×Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️20min $1,194 / mo 17 Mbps ×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 55 ✈️1h $3,989 / mo 102 Mbps ×Putrajaya 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 63 ✈️59min $1,310 / mo 11 Mbps ×Krabi is a nice weekend getaway if you stay in Bangkok and wanna escape the city for a few days. That being said, the best area for staying is Ao Nang beach. From here, you can go to the famous Railay beach with a longtail boat within 15 minutes and also the tours to Phi Phi and Hong Island start from here. There is a club called Upbeat Bar/Loft RNB in the middle of Ao Nang that gets kinda busy, although not super crowded in the rainy season. Maybe main season is different. Stay away from Krabi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 42° 108° 31° 87° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️16min $1,007 / mo 17 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 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 16 ✈️3h $2,512 / mo 87 Mbps ×The 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 54 ✈️37min $1,022 / mo 13 Mbps ×Overpriced and overhyped. Back in 2017 when Canggu got the lead on a site like this, landprices went 10x. Then came the covid situation and now the Balinese like to earn their loses over the last 2 years back in 1 day, which was yesterday. Rape tourism was mentioned not once. In a review below the diversity of restaurants is mentioned and how good the food is, maybe this person was on a holiday for a few weeks and didn't have to cook and didn't eat for months, but the fact remains - Bali is an
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° AQI 60 ✈️3h $1,511 / mo 25 Mbps ×I do not like Hanoi. I would not recommend it. I would rather go to Mexico city (cleaner and easier to get around). The driving situation is bizarre and scary. Gab app only works with cash, and honestly, most things only work with cash. The streets are dirty and disorganized. People barely speak English here (I found more english speakers in Da Nang, Vietnam). I tried to stay in Truc Bach and it was so dirty and loud that i left to West lake (which is supposed to be one of the nice area). It is
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌤 Feels 47° 117° 32° 90° 🥵 AQI 1 ✈️2h $938 / mo 5 Mbps ×Beautiful island. For me it hits a sweet spot combining some of Canggu and Ubud. There's good stuff like breath work and ecstatic dance close by but you don't have to scooter a whole hour to get there. It's not too hippy and you can easily avoid that vibe if you're not into it. The mountainous landscape makes for some lovely scootering - so nice that I've taken a few rides just for the pleasure of it. The bigger roads are lit at night and pretty good, not much traffic. Compared to Bali many re
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 34 🚕35min $1,060 / mo 🌇 Also went here185 people ×Amazing, large and accessible beaches. But the vibe is not there yet. It still feels like an "old" vacation place: tons of families, retirees, couples and sex tourists. The hip, young crowd you can find in Canggu for example is not there yet. There is only one decent coworking spot, not a lot of specialty cofee places. Most DNs stay in Rawai, which is OK - just a long street in a non-swimming beach. If you live there you will have to drive 15mins to go to the beach (Nai Han, Kata, etc). The infr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 13 ✈️20min $1,194 / mo 🌇 Also went here192 people ×I've been to Bangkok for almost two weeks now and I can't understand comments about the lack of soul or everything being on sale. Sure, there are some sketchy parts like massage parlour touts and an occasional ladyboy here and there, but overall my impression is that it's just a regular big city with some clear advantages. Coming from Central Europe, I find everybody to be very calm and polite. Some may argue it's just a facade and fair enough, but I prefer a calm and kind facade over cold and i
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 70 ✈️38min $1,273 / mo 🌇 Also went here336 people ×Putrajaya 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85° 🥵 AQI 63 ✈️59min $1,310 / mo 🌇 Also went here187 people ×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 55 ✈️1h $3,989 / mo 🌇 Also went here172 people ×Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 26° 80° 🥵 AQI 12 ✈️1h $931 / mo 🌇 Also went here234 people ×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 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 16 ✈️3h $2,512 / mo 🌇 Also went here129 people ×Honestly, 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 28° 82° 🥵 AQI 60 ✈️3h $1,373 / mo 🌇 Also went here132 people ×Overpriced and overhyped. Back in 2017 when Canggu got the lead on a site like this, landprices went 10x. Then came the covid situation and now the Balinese like to earn their loses over the last 2 years back in 1 day, which was yesterday. Rape tourism was mentioned not once. In a review below the diversity of restaurants is mentioned and how good the food is, maybe this person was on a holiday for a few weeks and didn't have to cook and didn't eat for months, but the fact remains - Bali is an
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° AQI 60 ✈️3h $1,511 / mo 🌇 Also went here137 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 31° 87° 🥵 AQI 46 ✈️12h $2,899 / mo 🌇 Also went here142 people ×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° AQI 43 ✈️13h $6,095 / mo 🌇 Also went here150 people ×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76° AQI 50.5 ✈️13h $4,799 / mo 🌇 Also went here140 people ×How did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70° AQI 68 ✈️13h $4,867 / mo 🌇 Also went here135 people ×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82° AQI 78 😷 ✈️13h $3,651 / mo 🌇 Also went here153 people ×Great city, but if you are a digital nomad and can afford higher rates, please don't drop insane amounts and pay what the locals do. I have heard of "nomads" coming here for a month and dropping 2k on a T1, while at most it shouldn't exceed 800 euros in the centre of Lisbon, which even like others have noted is an insane amount for locals. Also, the government should really start constructing social housing and do something about subletting/vacation rentals.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 😀 Fun great 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76° AQI 29 ✈️15h $2,404 / mo 🌇 Also went here143 people ×