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| ⭐️ Overall score | 239 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Panama |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 17 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 31°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (85%) = feels 42°C 108°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 91 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 115V115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Movistar |
| 💸 10 PAB in USD | USD 8.18 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PAB 100 = USD 82 |
| 💻 Best coworking space | CascoStation |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Coworking PTY |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Juan Valdez |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 14% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 37,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $13,680 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ 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 |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €3,756 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €2,255 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €4,601 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €1,315 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €1,227 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €245 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €3,200 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €150 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €2 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 9736° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot | 10641° scorching | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 10038° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot |
| Real | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 73% | sweaty 71% | nice 68% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 83% |
| Rain | dry 7mm | dry 4mm | dry 6mm | dry 36mm | rainy 137mm | rainy 206mm | rainy 184mm | rainy 139mm | rainy 222mm | rainy 161mm | rainy 160mm | rainy 198mm |
| Cloud | pockets 28% | pockets 32% | pockets 32% | pockets 39% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 52% | pockets 45% | pockets 46% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 51% | pockets 44% |
| Air quality | okay 57 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 91* US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 3 people | 3 people | 5 people | 2 people | 3 people | 3 people | 2 people | 1 people | 3 people | 4 people | 4 people | 3 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 78😷✈️3h€1,173 / mo🌇 Also went here75 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 17✈️5h€3,873 / mo🌇 Also went here101 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 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 43✈️6h€3,580 / mo🌇 Also went here67 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 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 27✈️7h€4,556 / mo🌇 Also went here83 peoplepoor signaling, disorientation, cleaning and disorganizing of the streets in Lisbon is similar to Naples in my opinion
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 15✈️10h€1,683 / mo🌇 Also went here67 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 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 32✈️11h€3,550 / mo🌇 Also went here113 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 21° 70° 20° 69°AQI 30✈️12h€2,519 / mo🌇 Also went here90 peopleAfter a month in Paris I can honestly say I have never enjoyed myself more from a culture perspective. The eating, drinking, and nightlife is excellent. People often complain that French people are rude but they have it all wrong. They are very formal. Dining is quite different as it doesn't align with the experience in America. In France restaurants are a space you are invited into and the waiters and chefs are professionals who know how best to treat you during your experience. They are in con
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 18✈️12h€3,389 / mo🌇 Also went here85 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 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 23✈️12h€4,010 / mo🌇 Also went here82 peopleBerlin 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 25✈️13h€2,518 / mo🌇 Also went here71 peopleI visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 30✈️13h€1,855 / mo🌇 Also went here79 peopleChiang 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 45° 113° 34° 93°🥵AQI 80😷✈️23h€842 / mo🌇 Also went here73 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 45° 113° 34° 94°🥵AQI 53✈️23h€1,119 / mo🌇 Also went here99 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 29° 84°🥵AQI 38✈️25h€2,317 / mo🌇 Also went here77 people
