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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 252 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Finland |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 31 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 2°C 35°F + Humid (79%) = feels -1°C 30°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 23 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 66 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Etu-Töölö |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Itäsaaret |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Sonera |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 120 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee House Asema-aukio |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 16% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 630,000 people |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 22x22m (484m²) per person |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Verkkokauppa |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Oikotie |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Finnair |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Flybe Nordic |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Helsinki Private Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,621 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,425 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,789 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,654 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,212 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $263 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,597 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $75 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (142 listings) | $1,831 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $60 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $17 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,376 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,930 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $110,589 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ 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
❌ Expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 468° cold | 5412° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6619° mild | 5412° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold | 30-1° freezing |
| Real | 28-2° freezing | 362° very cold | 362° very cold | 489° cold | 5412° cool | 6720° mild | 6619° mild | 6619° mild | 5513° cool | 468° cold | 405° very cold | 373° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 64% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 54% | nice 59% | nice 60% | nice 61% | nice 68% | nice 69% | damp 71% | damp 71% | damp 72% |
| Rain | dry 32mm | dry 26mm | dry 36mm | dry 4mm | dry 41mm | dry 15mm | dry 38mm | dry 33mm | dry 41mm | rainy 77mm | dry 35mm | dry 48mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 89% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 74% | pockets 36% | cloudy 70% | pockets 47% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 86% | overcast 97% | overcast 93% |
| Air quality | clean 27 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 3 people | 4 people | 3 people | 5 people | 4 people | 3 people | 4 people | 4 people | 3 people | 2 people | 4 people | 3 people |
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I lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 19🚕3h$2,219 / mo26MbpsDoesn't matter what you're interested in, Saint Petersburg has it. It's the largest "small" city in Europe. Such a large population, but everything you want in nightlife and action is packed into several districts. Best city in Europe for nightlife. Not sure why nomadlist has "safety" as a con because it's safer than any western europe city and every american city. Cheaper than Thailand, but winter is COLD.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -3° 27° 0° 33°AQI 23✈️24min$1,302 / mo14MbpsI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 10✈️32min$3,523 / mo36MbpsI am a foreign student here in Oulu, and I am pretty sure that the scores should be updated. Such as Internet connection here is great, 60-100mbs at my workplace. The city is bike friendly and foreign friendly, much better than the east and the south part of Finland. The city is promoting startups and improving environment toward internationalisation, so the future is bright and worthy. There is not much nightlife activities to do besides drinking and dancing, but in the summer you can do sport
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -5° 23° -3° 27°AQI 26✈️43min$2,767 / mo27MbpsI lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 19🚕3h$2,219 / mo26MbpsI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 10✈️32min$3,523 / mo36MbpsLondon is the best city in the world - you just can't do it on a budget. It's got an amazing tech scene but ALSO world class media, fashion, finance, art industries and many others. If you don't want to live in a tech / expat mono-culture then it's for you. It is a genuine melting pot with a huge range of nationalities and cultures living together (the US has a large number of nationalities but there seems to be hard segregations between them geographically, economically, culturally - so they
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 99😷✈️2h$4,053 / mo20MbpsDoesn't matter what you're interested in, Saint Petersburg has it. It's the largest "small" city in Europe. Such a large population, but everything you want in nightlife and action is packed into several districts. Best city in Europe for nightlife. Not sure why nomadlist has "safety" as a con because it's safer than any western europe city and every american city. Cheaper than Thailand, but winter is COLD.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -3° 27° 0° 33°AQI 23✈️24min$1,302 / mo14MbpsBerlin 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 41✈️1h$3,031 / mo35MbpsLisbon is the next remote work hub of Europe. There's many reasons why I think that: 1) it already has somewhat of a startup/tech scene because of the annual Web Summit conference 2) which means internet is fast, and there's lots of meetups and it's easy to make friends 3) it's relatively affordable for foreigners compared to Spain and the rest of Europe 4) Portuguese people are super friendly, a lot more friendly than in the rest of the Mediterranean and Europe 5) Lisbon is ideal to go on day/w
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 9✈️4h$2,040 / mo25MbpsI've been there in summer. I don't understand why the rate of walkability is bad, that is ridiculous. People are friendly and polite, if you want to find a job is easy, although opening a bank account to get your salary can take two months. There are plenty of coffees, restaurants and bars, often you need to book in advance (more if the weather is good), and they will rip you off. I knew this, and I went there with the plan of no-eating out, no coffee-out and no-party, but even the supermarket i
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -1° 30° -1° 30°AQI 38✈️1h$4,123 / mo38MbpsOne giant tourist trap. Giant hordes of rich Europeans vacationing with their parents credit cards.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 61✈️2h$4,431 / mo22MbpsI live here in Dublin and I disagree you should stay in Ballymun or Finglas. These places are dangerous. Very. Mobile operator Three is terrible. Vodafone tends to be a bit more expensive but to support your work it is the only one I recommend. Dublin and the whole of Ireland is charming and fun. It is not cheap. You will not regret coming over.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 28✈️3h$3,575 / mo55MbpsReally enjoying Seoul so far. It is very hard to make friends at first as not many people will speak English or are too afraid to. Maybe easier in Itaewon. For phone service, I was able to get month to month service on KT with unlimited data for only 35,000 won a month. Check out the desk with a sign in Thai on the electronics floor at IPark Mall connected to Yonsan station for this deal. They speak great English as well.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 2° 35°AQI 54✈️9h$2,363 / mo19MbpsSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 10° 51°AQI 89😷✈️3h$4,033 / mo29MbpsI lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels -1° 30° 3° 38°AQI 19🚕3h$2,219 / mo🌇 Also went here150 peopleI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 10✈️32min$3,523 / mo🌇 Also went here153 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 41✈️1h$3,031 / mo🌇 Also went here180 peopleVienna is nice if you're a tourist and want to see beautiful old architecture. And I guess it's nice if you want to live here for a long time, since it's quite safe and clean. But it's borderline impossible to live and work here short-term as a nomad. There's no good cafes to work from, the coworkings here are of extremely mediocre to bad quality here. Except for greaaaat Asian food, other food is difficult to get, there's either affordable takeaway fast food or expensive in-door fancy dining re
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 3° 37°AQI 58✈️2h$2,916 / mo🌇 Also went here116 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 3° 37° 3° 38°AQI 57✈️2h$1,519 / mo🌇 Also went here118 peopleOne giant tourist trap. Giant hordes of rich Europeans vacationing with their parents credit cards.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 61✈️2h$4,431 / mo🌇 Also went here135 peopleLondon is the best city in the world - you just can't do it on a budget. It's got an amazing tech scene but ALSO world class media, fashion, finance, art industries and many others. If you don't want to live in a tech / expat mono-culture then it's for you. It is a genuine melting pot with a huge range of nationalities and cultures living together (the US has a large number of nationalities but there seems to be hard segregations between them geographically, economically, culturally - so they
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 99😷✈️2h$4,053 / mo🌇 Also went here196 peopleSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 10° 51°AQI 89😷✈️3h$4,033 / mo🌇 Also went here148 peopleDuring winter is quite safe plus much cheaper. Some nightclubs are free and yet there is still a lot of people. Great por lgbtq+ community.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 16° 61°AQI 31✈️3h$2,878 / mo🌇 Also went here168 peopleI really enjoyed staying in Madrid. Reasonable coast of life, plenty of things to see/do and deliiiiicious food.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 76😷✈️4h$2,832 / mo🌇 Also went here96 peopleLisbon is the next remote work hub of Europe. There's many reasons why I think that: 1) it already has somewhat of a startup/tech scene because of the annual Web Summit conference 2) which means internet is fast, and there's lots of meetups and it's easy to make friends 3) it's relatively affordable for foreigners compared to Spain and the rest of Europe 4) Portuguese people are super friendly, a lot more friendly than in the rest of the Mediterranean and Europe 5) Lisbon is ideal to go on day/w
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 9✈️4h$2,040 / mo🌇 Also went here140 peopleHaving spent a total of two weeks in London on two separate occasions and having lived in NYC for two years, both are among my favorite cities in the world. Londoners are quite internationally and ethnically diverse, and seemingly better educated and more intellectual than New Yorkers in aggregate. The city very clean with a stunning mix of modern and historic architecture, and arguably has Europe's best public transit in terms of signage, availability, cleanliness and general efficiency. Meanw
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 38✈️9h$4,789 / mo🌇 Also went here129 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 32° 89°🥵AQI 71✈️11h$1,541 / mo🌇 Also went here106 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83°AQI 47✈️12h$2,761 / mo🌇 Also went here99 people
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