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| ⭐️ Total score | 61 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Nepal |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 11 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 20°C 68°F + 🌵 Too dry (27%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 121 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 39.5 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 1,000 NPR in USD | USD 7.66 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NPR 10,000 = USD 77 |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | coffee culture |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 260,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $722 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Hamrobazaar |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Etihad Airways |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $975 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $960 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,768 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $791 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $369 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $662 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $706 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $17 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $22 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $42 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8228° warm | 7222° mild | 6820° mild |
| Real | 6418° cool | 6820° mild | 7926° warm | 8228° very warm | 7725° warm | 8027° warm | 7926° warm | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 7926° warm | 7222° mild | 6619° mild |
| Humidity | nice 54% | nice 44% | nice 32% | too dry 27% | nice 65% | sweaty 79% | nice 83% | nice 83% | sweaty 78% | nice 71% | nice 59% | nice 47% |
| Rain | dry 12mm | dry 20mm | dry 29mm | dry 44mm | rainy 261mm | rainy 444mm | rainy 412mm | rainy 424mm | rainy 271mm | rainy 176mm | dry 15mm | dry 42mm |
| Cloud | pockets 42% | pockets 33% | pockets 34% | pockets 33% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 88% | overcast 94% | overcast 97% | cloudy 82% | pockets 49% | cloudy 56% | pockets 38% |
| Air quality | bad 121 US AQI | clean 40* US AQI | okay 89 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 80°🥵AQI 13✈️5h$5,436 / mo🌇 Also went here24 peopleDear travelers, I'm from Istanbul. I can provide you some guidance. Istanbul is a fairly advanced metropolis in terms of transportation, to start. Don't limit yourself to staying in motels near old mosques. You may also like locations in the city's north like Saryer and Beykoz. You may get an Istanbul city card for 6 liras, and with the remaining $20 you load onto it, you can ride the bus 35–40 times. Even if months pass, your money on the card will not be lost. In actuality, the Taksim distri
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️8h$3,908 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleA 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.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 5° 42°AQI 69✈️9h$5,437 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 61✈️10h$5,351 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 9° 48° 9° 48°AQI 38✈️10h$5,418 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleI'm currently in Lisbon and I must say that this city has been very overhyped in terms of cost, food and overall fun. There are a lot of issues where foreigners like myself are driving up the rent and we are solely blamed for this. The larger issue here is the Portuguese government is not using these tourism dollars towards their people. I'm staying in Alfama and there is 'fuck tourists' spray painted in a few places but in order to come and stay here we are being asked to provide our informatio
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 2✈️11h$3,443 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 53✈️16h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleHow did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 21✈️16h$6,903 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people
