Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 213 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Latin America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🚩 Country | Panama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 7 days | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 14 Mbps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌧 31°C 88°F + 💦 Humid (89%) + 💨 5km/h = Feels like 43°C 109°F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 63 µg/m3 equal to 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 31 µg/m3 equal to 🚬 / day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🔌 Power | 115V115V60Hz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Movistar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 💸 0 PAB in USD | USD 0.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: PAB 100 | USD 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 💻 Best coworking space | CascoStation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Juan Valdez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, contaminated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ♻️ Return rate | 14% of visitors return | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 37,000 people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Compreoalquile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Panama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Copa Airlines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 🏥 Best hospital | Punta Pacifica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do not take taxis in Panama, they are corrupt and violent. Use Uber instead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $6,293 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,757 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,627 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,608 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,500 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $300 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $6,291 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $295 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $7 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
Based on Panama City's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
Use Uber transportation. I do not recommend to use bike because it is not safe. Traffic is a big problem, so be prepare ahead for your appointments and don’t get stock in the rush hours.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 88°😷AQI 63✈️0.00013333333333333$6,293 / mo14MbpsI was there for one week and stayed in Bocagrande, about a 10 minute taxi ride from the Walled City. Pros of Cartagena: Inexpensive locale, reliable and fast internet, good weather (if you like it hot), not terribly crowded (aside from Walled City), beauty/history/nightlife of Walled City. Cons: Local beaches are average at best and riddled with vendors who accost visitors non-stop, street vendors are less pushy but everywhere, fluency in Spanish is very helpful (not really a con, just is), Walled City is loaded with tourists and priced accordingly. Cartagena struck me as a one-trick pony like a Las Vegas. Some people love Vegas because of the weather and the entertainment. Cartagena has the weather and the Walled City. Unfortunately even though its a coastal city, it's tough to enjoy the beach.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 50° 122° 33° 91°😷AQI 87✈️0.61941873873696$1,584 / mo6Mbpswasn't crazy about the town - the surrounding country is gorgeous
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°😷AQI 85✈️0.70796499142429$1,107 / mo7Mbpswasn't crazy about the town - the surrounding country is gorgeous
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°😷AQI 85✈️0.70796499142429$1,107 / mo7MbpsBest city in the world! You can certainly live the Nomad life in NYC for a lot less than 5k a month! I've been doing it since December 2018 for around $2500/mo. AirBnB is the way to go!
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 11✈️4.75916398866$5,419 / mo26MbpsTourist trap crowded with influencers taking a selfie in front of a canal . Very expensive.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 34° 93° 30° 87°😷AQI 68✈️11.783751247956$5,508 / mo14MbpsI was there for one week and stayed in Bocagrande, about a 10 minute taxi ride from the Walled City. Pros of Cartagena: Inexpensive locale, reliable and fast internet, good weather (if you like it hot), not terribly crowded (aside from Walled City), beauty/history/nightlife of Walled City. Cons: Local beaches are average at best and riddled with vendors who accost visitors non-stop, street vendors are less pushy but everywhere, fluency in Spanish is very helpful (not really a con, just is), Walled City is loaded with tourists and priced accordingly. Cartagena struck me as a one-trick pony like a Las Vegas. Some people love Vegas because of the weather and the entertainment. Cartagena has the weather and the Walled City. Unfortunately even though its a coastal city, it's tough to enjoy the beach.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 50° 122° 33° 91°😷AQI 87✈️0.61941873873696$1,584 / mo6MbpsA mixture of piss, weed, unwashed nerdy men, overpriced reality estate, passive-aggressiveness, homeless people and freaks
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 25✈️7.1336740428247$5,692 / mo30MbpsSo expensive and boring, Lots of Tech HQs located in Dublin so lots for work opportunities
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 23° 73°AQI 22✈️10.796960986295$4,758 / mo59MbpsPretty cool city with lots to do, but you might end up living in a suburb far away from the fun and have to drive a lot to get anywhere.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 47° 117° 32° 89°AQI 15✈️2.489038459475$3,611 / mo25Mbpswasn't crazy about the town - the surrounding country is gorgeous
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 29° 84° 27° 81°😷AQI 85✈️0.70796499142429$1,107 / mo🌇 Also went here71 peopleGreat food and affordable Airbnbs in decent neighborhoods! What more could you ask for! Highly recommend Mexico City if you're passing through LATAM.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°😷AQI 65✈️3.2117153388045$1,478 / mo🌇 Also went here47 peopleBest city in the world! You can certainly live the Nomad life in NYC for a lot less than 5k a month! I've been doing it since December 2018 for around $2500/mo. AirBnB is the way to go!
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 11✈️4.75916398866$5,419 / mo🌇 Also went here58 peopleA mixture of piss, weed, unwashed nerdy men, overpriced reality estate, passive-aggressiveness, homeless people and freaks
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 25✈️7.1336740428247$5,692 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleAmazing place! Definitely one of the most underrated countries in western Europe.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 30° 87°😷AQI 56✈️10.245827068813$2,334 / mo🌇 Also went here46 peopleI have been living in London for over 2 years as a student. It's ridiculously expensive. However, there are options. What I like about the city is you can find many events anytime you want. It's active all year 24/7. There are so many foreigners and tourists which make the living more vibrant and less racist. London has sub-communities which I think is a good thing. Those communities bring their cultures, ethics and foods. Public transportation and restaurants are great. I used to spend 3-4 hours in Costa or Nero cafe without interruptions. Though if it's raining or summer season it could be hard to stay long. On the negative side, the UK suffers from slow and old bureaucracies making life difficult sometimes. It's not easy to open a bank account or to rent. The government systems are slow. Also, you will feel depressed in winter when the sunset is before 4pm and the temperature is 0c. All in all, everything is great about the city except the affordability and the winter.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 30° 86°😷AQI 106✈️11.323098777963$3,917 / mo🌇 Also went here66 peopleI would disagree on the safety level of this city. Living there for 8 months now I'd say from my experience that Barcelona streets aren't safe at all. Many robberies, physical and sexual agressions are frequently occurring mostly due to drug issues in some central neighborhoods. I agree on the perfect weather great food and tech scene too on the positive side.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 30° 87°AQI 26✈️11.541645703471$3,476 / mo🌇 Also went here58 peopleTourist trap crowded with influencers taking a selfie in front of a canal . Very expensive.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 34° 93° 30° 87°😷AQI 68✈️11.783751247956$5,508 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleBeen living in 3 different centrally located airbnb in Berlin (2018), each between 800 and 900€ per month for 40-45 sqm (we're two, so 400-450€ each). Each time a full flat and not a shared airbnb, legal now since some months (though it was always possible to get a full flat before as well). Internet was always between 15 and 50 mbps. I spend 100€ per week on food, including restaurants (pretty cheap here), check for Turkish market on Maybachufer and Turkish stores in Neukölln (I spend less on food here than in Chiang Mai!). Berlin is such an awesome place to live, very multicultural, very tolerant, many different neighborhoods, quite relaxed feeling, many parks, lakes all around. No need to speak German at all. Come over here, probably one one of the best place on earth ;) (written in Sept 2018)
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️12.548177733165$3,184 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleBeen there twice. I love Prague
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°😷AQI 72✈️12.695201090238$2,210 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleIt's possible to live in Hong Kong on the cheap. You've got to live far out in the New Territories, or on an outlying island. I spent a summer living happily on Lamma Island for ~$500USD/month in rent for one bedroom in a shared flat. Rent is really the only tricky part--everything else is relatively cheap.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 46° 115° 33° 92°😷AQI 130✈️21.639608690255$2,941 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleI have been told it's the vanilla of digital nomads : easy, cheap, risk free. I loved it so much I want to move there ! Great food, great places to see and awesomely polite and nice people.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 46° 115° 32° 89°AQI 30✈️22.560489650012$1,190 / mo🌇 Also went here47 peopleCost of living over 1.000 usd? Is any of of this website went to Bangkok? You can live on a palace above 1.000 usd rent. Mine was 22.000 bahts and was in the party street, amazing building with jacuzzi, pools and even its own cinema..
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 33° 91°AQI 38✈️23.31221686971$1,554 / mo🌇 Also went here65 peopleI think KL will be the next hub for nomads. It's affordable, safe, convenient, has decent Internet and has decent weather. (Yes it's hot during the summer but it gives you a good reason to be inside and get your work done) Mostly it's quite chill, not as hectic and messy as other major SEA cities like Bangkok, Hanoi and Jakarta. There's not that much to do, but Malaysia has wonderful nature and getaway places, accessible with cheap AirAsia tickets from KL.
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 47° 117° 34° 92°✈️24.877406207708$1,335 / mo🌇 Also went here48 peopleThe Diet Coke of Asia. Zero crime, English spoken everywhere. Reliable public transport. Some nice spots for off-the-beaten-path walking and hiking. But also clinical, authoritarian, money-minded and very costly. Companies and shopkeepers will always do what's good for them (or makes their own life easier); not what's good for the customer. People avoid eye contact and are generally overworked and miserable. After a while, crossing over to Malaysia's neighboring Johor will, warts and all, feel like a breath of fresh air ("Yes! Space! I can move! I can breathe!").
🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 32° 90°😷AQI 65✈️25.082503287895$2,810 / mo🌇 Also went here46 people✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Many nomads have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBT friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Extremely expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Not many nomads right now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ People don't speak English well
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