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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 186 reviews |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Asia | |
| 🚩 Country | China | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 2 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather | ☀️ 4°C 40°F + 💦 Humid (80%) + 💨 8km/h = Feels like 2°C 36°F | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 230 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 177 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 / day | |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom | |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.46 | |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: CNY 1,000 | USD 146 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Stabucks | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,700,000 people | |
| 😤 People density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 3,700 ppl/km² 16x16m (256m²) space per person | |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Shandong Airlines | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China | |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Qingdao Municipal Hospital | |
😷 Air quality in Qingdao is very bad (230 US AQI) today: avoid exercising outdoors, close windows and try to stay inside, more info | ||
| no-beachbeachairportcoldcold nowdirty airbad air qualityslow internetlow crimehigh humiditymany womenfriendly peopleadult nightlife | ||
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,500 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,032 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,553 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $444 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $364 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $64 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $1,114 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $52 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1,001 listings) | $2,225 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $73 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $3 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
Based on Qingdao's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
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✅ Very safe
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBT friendly
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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