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| ⭐️ Overall score | 236 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Mexico |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 14 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 32°C 89°F + 😊 Comfy (63%) = feels 39°C 102°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 40 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Telcel |
| 💸 100 MXN in USD | USD 4.98 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MXN 10,000 = USD 498 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | El Cowork |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Coworking Monterrey |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 12% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,444 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Linio |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Avisosdeocasion |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Volaris |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeromexico |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,224 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $727 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,318 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $377 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $224 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $119 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $534 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $25 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (775 listings) | $930 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $30 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 6619° mild | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 10038° hot | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 10641° scorching | 9736° hot | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 7222° mild |
| Real | 6418° cool | 7323° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild |
| Humidity | nice 66% | nice 63% | nice 73% | nice 52% | sweaty 72% | nice 66% | nice 62% | nice 58% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 71% | nice 68% | nice 50% |
| Rain | dry 20mm | dry 12mm | rainy 56mm | dry 24mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 99mm | rainy 107mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 157mm | rainy 78mm | dry 45mm | dry 7mm |
| Cloud | pockets 42% | pockets 31% | pockets 47% | pockets 16% | pockets 42% | pockets 28% | pockets 24% | pockets 13% | pockets 27% | pockets 28% | pockets 41% | clear 7% |
| Air quality | okay 62 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 69 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 72 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 250 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 333 people | 250 people | 250 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86°🥵AQI 42✈️4h$4,658 / mo16MbpsNothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 53✈️3h$4,712 / mo58MbpsSpent one month living and discovering Guad and area. Walked, bussed and Uber when necessary. NEVER felt unsafe. My Spanish is very basic and yet was able to communicate. Friendly and helpful people! Amazing for such a large city!🌺❤️
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 14✈️1h$1,755 / mo27MbpsAntigua is a fun, historic and compact city with enough international visitors to make it comfortable for any expat for digital nomad. In recent decades the city has evolved into an international Spanish-learning destination, for the high quality of life, tourism amenities, access to nature, and low cost. It's also a few hour drive from one of the most beautiful lakes I've ever seen: Lake Atitlan.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 61✈️2h$1,291 / mo6Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 22✈️3h$4,863 / mo37MbpsThis place is a lot of fun, has beautiful beaches, and gives easy access to amazing cavern diving. That said I wouldn't recommend it, overall. You have two parts, centro and hotel zone. Hotel zone is essentially as if Bali existed in the US, but inexplicably is somehow in Mexico. Roughly 3-4x the price of Bali and the rest of Mexico, almost no real mexican food (the best reason to go to Mexico) in the hotel zone, a bunch of beach hipsters (Tuluminati), relatively terrible internet (some 10Mbps+
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 10✈️51min$1,141 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleI must be alone on this one; but I did 2 weeks in CDMX and it wasn't great for me. First of all, it was CHILLY in the mornings and at night (late August - Early Sept). And to stay in the nicer and convenient neighborhoods, which you kind of have to in CDMX or you will be bothered, the airbnbs were pricey, and nearby restaurants too. Sidewalks very small and cramped. The vendors and police were a bit aggressive here. The nightlife was a bit dull to me, limited to just a few places. The green park
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 30✈️56min$1,436 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI've stayed in Merida for about 10 weeks now. It's a cute sleepy city with a good amount of restaurants and museums/history if you're into that sort of stuff. I cannot speak about the nightlife because I'm here during Covid times and the lockdown is real. The city is flat as a pancake, so if you're into cycling, this is a great city for you. The heat in this city is oppressive starting in March through the end of October. I've asked many locals why they come here and their number one respons
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 46° 115° 32° 90°🥵AQI 158😷✈️2h$1,099 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 31° 88°🥵AQI 158😷✈️2h$1,238 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleI have only been to a couple of digital nomad spots around the world, but I must say I have been disappointed with PDC for several reasons. I am a coworking space kind of girl and even though there are a few here, they are all not great. Especially if you compare them to the spaces in Bali Canggu/Ubud for example. In PDC it was all about choosing the lesser „evil“ for me. They are okay, but I didn‘t feel the same community vibes or very inspired in these places. The choices of healthy foo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 31° 88°🥵AQI 158😷✈️2h$1,446 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleNothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 53✈️3h$4,712 / mo🌇 Also went here9 peopleI guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 85°🥵AQI 19✈️3h$4,564 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleI've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 38✈️3h$5,687 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 116😷✈️4h$5,111 / mo🌇 Also went here9 peopleSeattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 38✈️4h$4,155 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleOne of the most horrendous cities I've ever been to. Too much traffic, ugly architecture and even the food is very much hit and miss. Oh and housing is not that cheap. People can range from very friendly to very much not caring but on average, they're neither unfriendly nor easy to connect with, even if you speak good Spanish. More than anything, from someone used to the lively vibe in Colombia or Mexico, the place is as lively as a cemetery. No music, not even a peep at night... There's a reaso
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 10✈️7h$943 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 70✈️11h$4,300 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 10✈️12h$4,824 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 28✈️12h$4,014 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleEven if the city is kind of on the decline, it still is awesome. Perfect weather all year, amazing food, vibrant local & expat community.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 14✈️12h$3,103 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people
