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| ⭐️ Total score | 240 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Panama |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 36°C 97°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 91 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 115V115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Movistar |
| 💸 0 PAB in USD | USD 0.00 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PAB 100 = USD 100 |
| 💻 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 | $3,776 / 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 (median price) | $2,767 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $130 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $7 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ 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
❌ 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 | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
| Remote workers | 543 people | 743 people | 971 people | 429 people | 720 people | 700 people | 500 people | 400 people | 600 people | 900 people | 675 people | 567 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 21✈️1h$1,057 / mo9MbpsNothing 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 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 25✈️6h$4,612 / mo56MbpsHousing 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 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 13✈️12h$4,708 / mo22MbpsThe wifi conection on all the island maybe can be slower sometimes. i sugesto to have a 50gb plan internet by Didi simcards
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 19✈️2h$1,932 / mo25MbpsI'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° 14° 57°AQI 42✈️7h$6,091 / mo71MbpsI 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),
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 25✈️37min$1,412 / mo🌇 Also went here78 peopleMedellin is a very nice place! Good options of restaurants, hotels and places to hangout. En EL Poblado you have a good variety of bars and places to hangout. At Medellin i worked from the hotel and from a famous shopping mall (EL TESORO) witch has dedicated places, with very good structure os desks, chairs and wi fi for digital nomads (Nómadas Espacio de Coworking).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 61✈️42min$1,054 / mo🌇 Also went here113 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 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 26✈️2h$4,631 / mo🌇 Also went here79 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 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 104😷✈️3h$1,503 / mo🌇 Also went here89 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 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 102😷✈️5h$5,021 / mo🌇 Also went here121 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° 14° 57°AQI 42✈️7h$6,091 / mo🌇 Also went here102 peoplePros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 11✈️10h$2,039 / mo🌇 Also went here79 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 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 50✈️11h$4,306 / mo🌇 Also went here128 peopleI wanted to like Barcelona but the rampant robberies just really caste a dark cloud over my 6 weeks there. Usually it is non-violent pick pocketing, but there are cases where it is much uglier than that.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 1✈️12h$3,027 / mo🌇 Also went here106 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 42✈️12h$3,929 / mo🌇 Also went here98 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 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 13✈️12h$4,708 / mo🌇 Also went here100 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 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 14✈️13h$3,116 / mo🌇 Also went here86 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 15° 59° 15° 58°AQI 30✈️13h$2,204 / mo🌇 Also went here90 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 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 78😷✈️23h$1,350 / mo🌇 Also went here113 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° 30° 86°🥵AQI 25✈️25h$2,836 / mo🌇 Also went here86 people
