⭐️ Total score | 2.15/5 (Rank #1175) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,432 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 32Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 20°C68°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 79% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 49 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 54 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,612 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* | Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Great |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Finland |
🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 32 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 20°C 68°F + 😊 Comfy (79%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 49 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 54 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 109 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | Business Kitchen |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Bisketti |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $43,339 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 92% 👱♀️ 8% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Verkkokauppa |
🏠 Apartment listings | Oikotie |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Finnair |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Finnair |
🏥 Best hospital | Mehiläinen Oulu |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,432 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,939 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,006 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,145 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,782 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,081 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $629 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $224 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $68 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $287 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $14 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $10,655 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $8 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ 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
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 12-11° freezing | 5-15° freezing | 25-4° freezing | 320° freezing | 457° cold | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 6116° cool | 468° cold | 436° cold | 0° freezing | 12-11° freezing |
Real | 18-8° freezing | 13-11° freezing | 31-1° freezing | 362° very cold | 468° cold | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 6116° cool | 489° cold | 468° cold | 320° freezing | 18-8° freezing |
Humidity | nice 36% | nice 37% | nice 39% | nice 40% | nice 38% | nice 35% | nice 36% | nice 42% | nice 38% | nice 43% | nice 39% | nice 37% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | |
Rain | dry 50mm | dry 38mm | dry 37mm | dry 33mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 65mm | dry 43mm | rainy 76mm | rainy 60mm | rainy 55mm | dry 35mm | dry 32mm |
Cloud | cloudy 53% | pockets 39% | pockets 38% | pockets 41% | pockets 42% | pockets 31% | pockets 25% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 61% | pockets 48% | pockets 47% |
Remote workers | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 300 people | 0 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°AQI 34✈️4h$4,598 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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 goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 60😷✈️11h$1,358 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×It's obscenely expensive for low quality service with kinda mean people. Not nice. The regulations and taxes here are insane too. You pay a neighbourhood tax, district tax, city tax, county tax and then state tax on every payment you make! The traffic here is insane too. And just getting from place to place is difficult because city is so gigantic. We talked to our hotel's manager here and he struggles a lot with the insane amount of rules California tells him to follow. It makes it hard to st
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 60😷✈️11h$5,280 / mo🌇 Also went here7 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 mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 65😷✈️12h$1,267 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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