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| ⭐️ Overall score | 199 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 50 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 33°C 92°F + 🥵 Sweaty (77%) = feels 45°C 113°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 32 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 36 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | T-Mobile |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | 10th Street Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $57,808 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Rio Grande Regional Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,111 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,756 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,465 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $990 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $700 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $220 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,733 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $128 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (38 listings) | $2,633 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $86 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $8 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
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| Feels | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 8429° warm | 9133° hot | 10943° scorching | 11546° scorching | 12049° scorching | 12451° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10038° hot | 7725° warm | 7323° mild |
| Real | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 9234° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 7625° warm | 7323° mild |
| Humidity | nice 75% | nice 83% | nice 79% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 76% | nice 70% | nice 66% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 73% | nice 76% | nice 74% |
| Rain | dry 16mm | dry 10mm | dry 19mm | dry 24mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 72mm | rainy 143mm | dry 49mm | rainy 54mm | dry 10mm |
| Cloud | pockets 49% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 70% | pockets 40% | cloudy 55% | pockets 41% | pockets 19% | pockets 16% | pockets 22% | pockets 23% | cloudy 50% | pockets 38% |
| Air quality | clean 26 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 32 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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