⭐️ Total score | 2.28/5 (Rank #710) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,863 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 26Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 25°C76°F (feels 25°C77°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 65% |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Very high |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,506 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Australia |
🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 26 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 25°C 76°F + 😊 Comfy (65%) = feels 25°C 77°F |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 6.49 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AUD 100 = USD 65 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | The Space |
☕️ Best coffee place | Caffiend |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👎5% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $54,069 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 81% 👱♀️ 19% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Kogan |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Virgin Australia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qantas |
🏥 Best hospital | Cairns Private Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,863 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,993 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,916 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,119 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,553 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,579 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $735 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $166 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $85 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $271 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $3,147 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $40 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $5 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $9,580 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $27,512 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $91,425 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ 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
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
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Feels | 8228° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm |
Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | nice 46% | nice 44% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 38% | nice 39% | nice 37% | nice 37% | nice 40% | nice 39% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 255mm | rainy 271mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 106mm | dry 36mm | dry 32mm | dry 18mm | dry 30mm | dry 23mm | dry 3mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 176mm |
Cloud | cloudy 61% | cloudy 58% | pockets 40% | pockets 43% | pockets 31% | pockets 40% | pockets 35% | pockets 36% | pockets 37% | pockets 28% | pockets 37% | pockets 33% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI |
Remote workers | 222 people | 320 people | 400 people | 400 people | 275 people | 289 people | 244 people | 300 people | 200 people | 333 people | 325 people | 240 people |
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Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 20✈️2h$3,729 / mo59Mbps×i lived here during the plandemic for 3 months, it's like living in a big city, traffic is hectic. plenty of bars if you like that thing, and restaurants. Nice beach
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 14✈️2h$5,406 / mo24Mbps×Horrible place full of alcoholic men who like to fight, no women so the vibe is awful. nothing to do except drink yourself stupid!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°✈️2h$4,428 / mo26Mbps×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 50✈️3h$3,770 / mo158Mbps×I have been to Canberra multiple times now. It is not easy to make friends here but once you managed to, it is a very homely place. It is also a great place to study because the distractions are in Sydney & Melbourne. In terms of good food, I recommend Charcoal Rooster's Turkish Pizza
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 56😷✈️3h$5,633 / mo24Mbps×Always on the Top Livable Cities List, but it really should be in the Top Boring Cities List. It's like a big town, and it's kind of stuck in the past. You really feel like you are in the South. Plenty of old people & Asian students. Normal - everyone moves to Sydney or Melbourne which are incredibly more fun and exciting.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 34✈️3h$5,233 / mo24Mbps×I have visited Noumea many times and have lived there a few months. It's got great climate, a good night life, it's a great place for families and it feels safe. There's a very active cultural scene (theatre, writers, musicians) and a huge variety of sports. The food is the best I got anywhere in the Pacific and their health system is top. A great place to learn some French, too!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 22✈️3h$5,186 / mo4Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 84😷✈️3h$3,578 / mo121Mbps×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 50✈️3h$3,770 / mo158Mbps×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 20✈️2h$3,729 / mo59Mbps×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 84😷✈️3h$3,578 / mo121Mbps×i lived here during the plandemic for 3 months, it's like living in a big city, traffic is hectic. plenty of bars if you like that thing, and restaurants. Nice beach
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 14✈️2h$5,406 / mo24Mbps×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 34✈️8h$2,762 / mo64Mbps×Can’t recommend Ubud. It’s just the same overdeveloped and overpriced mentally isolated tourist trap that is Canggu, just a bit worse. If you have never been anywhere else, it might be okay for 2 weeks, but to any seasoned traveller it’s a the type of place you dread.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 50✈️5h$1,823 / mo32Mbps×Filled with rude provincial locals. Hard to fit in here and make friends. Extremely cliquey culture.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 67°AQI 5✈️5h$4,464 / mo24Mbps×Busy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 50✈️5h$3,263 / mo64Mbps×Horrible place full of alcoholic men who like to fight, no women so the vibe is awful. nothing to do except drink yourself stupid!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°✈️2h$4,428 / mo26Mbps×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 44° 111° 36° 96°🥵AQI 94😷✈️8h$1,345 / mo86Mbps×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 50✈️5h$1,844 / mo59Mbps×Brisbane really is Australia's best kept secret. It wont stay this way forever but it is still great for now. In a few years it will be too busy like Melbourne and Sydney.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 20✈️2h$3,729 / mo🌇 Also went here43 people×Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 50✈️3h$3,770 / mo🌇 Also went here88 people×Melbourne is a fun and cute compact city. There are so many fun things to do here such as visit is beaches, go to its theme parks out of the CBD area. Its city CBD is so much fun as well. You can visit the Queen Victoria market which is the largest outdoors market in the world! You can also visit Federation Square which is a beautiful park on the edge of the CBD, and you can visit the Eureka Skydeck and Australia 108 which are the tallest buildings in Australia if you exclude the antenna from th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 84😷✈️3h$3,578 / mo🌇 Also went here54 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵✈️7h$4,305 / mo🌇 Also went here59 people×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 76😷✈️7h$1,220 / mo🌇 Also went here45 people×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 34✈️8h$2,762 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 44° 111° 36° 96°🥵AQI 94😷✈️8h$1,345 / mo🌇 Also went here61 people×How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°✈️15h$5,912 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 42°AQI 57😷✈️19h$3,923 / mo🌇 Also went here45 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 34✈️20h$6,068 / mo🌇 Also went here47 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 38✈️20h$5,484 / mo🌇 Also went here60 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 38✈️20h$5,034 / mo🌇 Also went here49 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°✈️21h$7,298 / mo🌇 Also went here43 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 38✈️21h$5,021 / mo🌇 Also went here50 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 43✈️22h$3,878 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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