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| ⭐️ Overall score | 205 reviews |
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| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Shaoxing is fast averaging 16 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~2 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 28°C 83°F + 🥵 Sweaty (89%) = feels 33°C 91°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 77 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 155 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 630,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,470 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $830 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,650 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $471 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $83 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $77 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $844 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $40 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (22 listings) | $1,573 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $52 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $5 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 457° cold | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 8429° warm | 9736° hot | 11144° scorching | 8630° warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5211° cool |
| Real | 457° cold | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 6921° mild | 7524° warm | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 9032° hot | 8127° warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 5211° cool |
| Humidity | damp 78% | damp 82% | damp 73% | nice 74% | nice 63% | nice 85% | sweaty 89% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 75% | nice 76% | nice 68% | nice 67% |
| Rain | dry 42mm | rainy 64mm | rainy 61mm | dry 45mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 90mm | dry 45mm | dry 15mm | dry 21mm | dry 48mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 71% | overcast 94% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 71% | pockets 45% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 86% | pockets 38% | pockets 22% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 50% |
| Air quality | bad 125 US AQI | bad 113 US AQI | bad 109 US AQI | okay 97 US AQI | okay 91 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 137 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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