⭐️ Total score | 2.61/5 (Rank #1233) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,352 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 9Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C84°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 82% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 11 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $2,363 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Good |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Sint Maarten |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 9 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (82%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 11 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Caribserve |
☕️ Best coffee place | La Sucriere |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | The PWR Agency |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 34,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $28,352 / year |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air France |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Center Louis Constant Fleming |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,352 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,427 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,393 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,255 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $900 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $458 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,458 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $162 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 79 listings) | $4,029 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $132 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $10 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 8228° warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 9937° hot | 9334° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° warm |
Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 78% | sweaty 76% | nice 77% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 76% |
Rain | dry 33mm | dry 40mm | dry 30mm | rainy 55mm | dry 38mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 65mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 104mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 61mm |
Cloud | pockets 46% | pockets 31% | pockets 30% | pockets 48% | pockets 39% | cloudy 59% | pockets 43% | pockets 41% | pockets 34% | pockets 36% | pockets 37% | pockets 37% |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 250 people | 200 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 280 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 13✈️8h$6,829 / mo83Mbps×San Juan is amazing. Tons of beautiful views and restaurants everywhere. If you like Latin America, you'll like San Juan. It is more expensive than other LatAm hubs, but it has better infrastructure and is safer. There are many different vibes you can get on the island. Old San Juan is like Europe but more colorful. Condado is closer to Miami but with a better beach. There is the only rainforest in America just 20 minutes away, not to mention all the other beautiful parts of the island. I wo
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 30✈️26min$3,970 / mo19Mbps×I don’t recommend living here full time. The summers are unbearably hot and humid and you have to drive 1+ hours to the closest beach. Actually, you have to drive everywhere because everything is a 20+ min drive. Traffic is terrible and everything is under construction. There are lots of bugs, mosquitos, gators, roaches, etc… You can be here for months and not do all the different entertainment, restaurants, experiences the Orlando area has to offer. Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, Legoland, Fu
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 18✈️8h$2,323 / mo30Mbps×I have lived in Madison for many years and have mixed feelings about it. It is a very clean and green city, and hospitable to bicyclists. There are many parks and nature centers and an abundance of restaurants serving all varieties of cuisine. There is quite a bit to do here, and Madison is also close enough to Milwaukee for day trips to explore. I love the farmers markets and feel very spoiled to have access to so many locales from which to buy organic food (and vegan, paleo, etc.). What I
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 41✈️9h$4,112 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 22✈️9h$5,548 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×Berlin 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 74°AQI 30✈️10h$3,945 / mo🌇 Also went here13 people×I 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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 17✈️10h$2,853 / mo🌇 Also went here10 people×Like everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 30✈️23h$3,625 / mo🌇 Also went here11 people×