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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Brunei |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 86°F + 🥵 Sweaty (74%) = feels 36°C 97°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 52 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 19 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | B-Mobile (Progresif) |
| 💸 10 BND in USD | USD 7.59 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BND 100 = USD 76 |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Truesynergy |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 259,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 4,964 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 27,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $26,939 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Royal Brunei Airline |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Royal Brunei Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | JPMC |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,226 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $773 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,618 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $462 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $379 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $114 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $932 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $44 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (91 listings) | $1,108 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $36 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.51 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 10239° hot | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 10842° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10239° hot | 10038° hot | 9937° hot |
| Real | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8731° hot | 8630° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 75% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 79% |
| Rain | rainy 91mm | dry 38mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 97mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 155mm | rainy 128mm | rainy 71mm | rainy 82mm | rainy 156mm | rainy 97mm | rainy 148mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 88% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 90% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 85% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 89% |
| Air quality | clean 17 US AQI | clean 16 US AQI | clean 18 US AQI | clean 17 US AQI | clean 14 US AQI | clean 15 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI |
| Sun | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI |
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Nice and laid back city with good infrastructure. 4G coverage was good
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 85°🥵AQI 25✈️55min$1,417 / mo6MbpsCity was cheap and pretty but there's not that many cafes to work from, plenty of tourists and it was hard to make friends. If you go here make sure to rent a motorbike and check out the nature but there are better places to live at in Vietnam.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 166😷✈️1h$659 / mo15MbpsDa Lat is not a great place. I came here for fresh air (after 1 year in Chiang Mai) but unfortunately that is an illusion. They are burning in the mountains and you can see the smoke going up to the sky. And in the city it is not much better, the air is very much polluted there as well. I tried many restaurants but mostly the food is not very good and the service is depressingly bad. Combine that with the rubbish you see everywhere (especially around the center) and Da Lat makes not a happy pl
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 11✈️1h$1,856 / mo7MbpsUsually goes dead after one month. Polluted streets and antisocial locals. It’s okay for a few weeks, but the fun diminishes quickly and boredom sets in. You are left with high rent and no fun after about a month.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 32° 89°🥵AQI 74✈️1h$966 / mo21MbpsCebu city isn't safe, and internet is really slow unless you have a fiber connection. Most of areas are unsafe at night, some are sort of dangerous at daylight too. Even in deep province of Cebu island (such as Carcar city) I've been feeling much safer than here. Also don't forget about terrible road traffic and the fact that most of locals here doesn't speak English.
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵AQI 39✈️2h$1,499 / mo6MbpsNice and laid back city with good infrastructure. 4G coverage was good
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 35✈️14min$834 / mo16MbpsManila is an incredibly welcoming city and cheap to live. Accommodation in ultra luxurious condos is reasonable, foot massage whilst tapping out emails (£7 per hour) makes working from here a no brainer. Agree living in the Greenbelt area is a no brainer. Vegetarian choices can be limited in some places but excellent (and so cheap!) Delivery services are available, including diet chef stuff which is unaffordable anywhere else. The streets feel safe inside Makati and the areas around greenbelt
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 31° 87°🥵AQI 48✈️2h$1,440 / mo7MbpsFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 32° 89°🥵AQI 78😷✈️2h$1,285 / mo19MbpsNice and laid back city with good infrastructure. 4G coverage was good
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 35✈️14min$834 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleUsually goes dead after one month. Polluted streets and antisocial locals. It’s okay for a few weeks, but the fun diminishes quickly and boredom sets in. You are left with high rent and no fun after about a month.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 42° 108° 32° 89°🥵AQI 74✈️1h$966 / mo🌇 Also went here4 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 34° 93° 30° 87°🥵AQI 59✈️2h$2,835 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 32° 89°🥵AQI 78😷✈️2h$1,285 / mo🌇 Also went here7 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 15✈️2h$1,821 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people"Don't go to Jakarta" is what people from Jakarta tell you. But you do. It can't be that bad, right? Then you arrive. Although "arriving" is a big word for getting stuck in traffic first for hours. When you do finally arrive in your apartment, you open the windows and wonder why you can't see further than 10 meters. It must be a foggy day? No, it's not fog, it's smog, and it's an every day occurrence in Jakarta, a city that is now competing with Beijing for worst air quality in the world. Wh
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 39✈️2h$1,219 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleLiving in Bangkok since 2015, I refused to go to Phuket longer than I could. I strongly believed in rumors that Phuket was all about prostitution and dirty beaches... oh, how I was wrong! Phuket is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I’d say you can find the same conveniences you’re used in Bangkok, but with a beach - actually many of them, ofter pristine and desert if you rent a motorbike and explore by yourself. Forget about Patong and go to Karon, Surin, Kattatani, Paradise and Freedom Beach instead... you’
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 30° 86°🥵AQI 92😷✈️2h$1,595 / mo🌇 Also went here4 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 41° 106° 33° 92°🥵AQI 121😷✈️2h$1,468 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleCould never tolerate this city beyond a couple of weeks. Always felt like an alien here because the locals are even more antisocial than southern and central Vietnamese. That is, unless they were trying to hassle me for free English lessons.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 99😷✈️3h$951 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°AQI 96😷✈️3h$1,968 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 46✈️4h$2,084 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleI spent one year in Istanbul and it's absolutely amazing. The city is really safe, I went back home really late during the night, walking, without any problem. Parties are really fun and there are all kinds of spots to have fun (bars, nightclubs, restaurants...). The city has a lot of cafés to work at and most of them have free and reliable wifi. Definitely recommend!
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 44✈️12h$1,122 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI lived in Amsterdam for three years in three different apartments in the center. The place is very noisy and during the lockdown it became painfully obvious that the dutch in general don't really care about whether they bother their neighbors or not. After reading expat Facebook groups, it seems I'm not alone with this opinion. The city is gorgeous, but to be frank, I'm not eager to live there again.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 26✈️15h$4,584 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleMuch nicer than people would have you think. Too many locals seem to be under the impression that it's the busiest, most expensive city in the world. These people clearly haven't travelled much. Not saying it's cheap, but for a big city in an English speaking country it's about what you'd expect, if not cheaper. Pros: - Hot humid summers, gorgeous orange autumns, cold snowy winters. If you like distinct seasons this is a great place to be. Winter is about 4-5 months, from Nov-Mar. Ignore every
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -5° 23° -1° 30°AQI 30✈️19h$3,211 / mo🌇 Also went here4 people
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