⭐️ Total score | 2.19/5 (Rank #869) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,252 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 26°C78°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 87% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 63 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 😷 Unhealthy for some: 110 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $677 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Guilin is fast averaging 32 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~4 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 26°C 78°F + 😊 Comfy (87%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 63 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 111 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 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 |
📸 Visitors per year | 2,531,500 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 48,516 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 87% 👱♀️ 13% |
⛪️ 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 | $1,252 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $789 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,021 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $577 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $870 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $867 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $442 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $28 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $151 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ 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 | 5412° cool | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° warm | 8831° hot | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool |
Real | 5412° cool | 5211° cool | 6016° cool | 6720° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8731° hot | 8630° very warm | 8530° very warm | 7122° mild | 6317° cool | 5714° cool |
Humidity | too dry 28% | nice 38% | nice 46% | nice 48% | nice 48% | nice 45% | nice 39% | nice 41% | nice 38% | nice 37% | nice 37% | nice 34% |
Most common | ||||||||||||
Rain | dry 10mm | rainy 106mm | rainy 162mm | rainy 207mm | rainy 349mm | rainy 371mm | rainy 238mm | rainy 151mm | rainy 77mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 92mm | dry 6mm |
Cloud | pockets 38% | pockets 34% | pockets 46% | pockets 49% | pockets 48% | pockets 44% | pockets 37% | pockets 43% | pockets 25% | pockets 42% | pockets 45% | pockets 28% |
Air quality | bad 138 US AQI | bad 123 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | bad 110 US AQI | okay 98 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | bad 112 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 130 US AQI | bad 132 US AQI |
Sun | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 147😷✈️2h$1,847 / mo5Mbps×Pretty much near impossible to get by if English is your only language. Couldn't get a Chinese SIM. Experienced Racism in bars / clubs as the only Westerners in there. Bar staff disinterested to serve us and looking down on us. Beautiful skyline very impressive modern architecture but generally a nightmare getting around if you don't speak any Chinese. Wouldn't go again
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°AQI 55😷✈️32min$1,560 / mo4Mbps×I lived in Beijing for almost 3 years from 2014-2017. It's an incredible city with a lot to offer. It's an imposing place and not the most welcoming, but that's because it takes time to adjust. In a nutshell: beautiful parks, very modern infrastructure , friendly people, good transportation (the subway is FAR superior to London or NYC, for example), amazing food, relatively cheap, extremely safe, loads to do, incredible history. The one major con is the air pollution—it can get really bad, so
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 61😷✈️2h$2,483 / mo5Mbps×My favorite place in China. Best months of the year are April to October. Any who loves rivers, mountains, rock climbing, caves, rafting, etc. will love it here. Biggest reccommendation, buy or rent a scooter and go exploring! There's so much to see. I made a lot of Chinese and international friends while studying Chinese here (Omeida Chinese Academy: www.omeidachinese.com ) That made my experience even better.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 80°🥵✈️42min$2,963 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people×Shanghai 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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 31✈️12h$5,464 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
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