⭐️ Total score |
4.64/5 (Rank #1)
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❤️ Liked by members |
👍63% liked it 👎37% disliked it
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👍 Quality of life score |
Good |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
🎒 Community score |
Great |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,358 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🚀 Super fast: 90Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 27°C81°F (feels 31°C88°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 83%
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💨 Air quality (now) |
🌱 Good: 60 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Good: 55 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Good
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🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Okay
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$493 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
😤 People density |
🧘♀️ Low density: 5k ppl/km² (1 per 14x14m)
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🚶 Walkability |
Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Great |
😄 Happiness* |
Good |
🍸 Nightlife |
Great |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Great |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Great |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Thailand |
🗓️ Average trip length | 8 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 90 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 27°C 81°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 31°C 88°F
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💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 60 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 55 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Historical Center |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Bangkok Yai |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 100 THB in USD | USD 2.79 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | THB 10,000 = USD 279 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Hubba |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | The Hive |
☕️ Best coffee place | True Coffee @ Siam Paragon |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Too Fast To Sleep SCB |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍18% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 23,270,600 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 445,980 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 5,800,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $5,911 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 14x14m (196m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
🏥 Best hospital | Bangkok Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,358 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,041 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,596 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $742 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $483 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,280 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $598 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $23 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $189 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
👩🏫 International school | $12,740 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $5 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $4 / trip |
✅ Relatively cheap living costs
✅ Friendly and helpful locals
✅ Fast internet
✅ Vibrant expat and nomad community
✅ Amazing food variety
✅ Good healthcare system
✅ Accessible public transportation
✅ Great amenities in accommodations
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members here all year round
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ High humidity and heat
❌ Significant air pollution
❌ Heavy traffic congestion
❌ Visible poverty and homelessness
❌ Cost of living increasing
❌ Overwhelming and chaotic atmosphere
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Nomad List members didn't like going here
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
95
35° hot |
99
37° hot |
109
43° scorching |
109
43° scorching |
108
42° scorching |
106
41° scorching |
113
45° scorching |
111
44° scorching |
104
40° hot |
104
40° hot |
100
38° hot |
90
32° hot |
Real |
87
31°
hot |
89
32°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
91
33°
hot |
90
32°
hot |
87
31°
hot |
87
31°
hot |
87
31°
hot |
85
30°
very warm |
Humidity |
nice 65% |
nice 61% |
sweaty 72% |
sweaty 72% |
nice 69% |
nice 66% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 76% |
nice 63% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear |
Rain |
dry 1mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 25mm |
rainy 72mm |
rainy 91mm |
rainy 51mm |
rainy 165mm |
rainy 159mm |
rainy 245mm |
rainy 199mm |
dry 46mm |
dry 6mm |
Cloud |
pockets 21% |
pockets 20% |
pockets 21% |
pockets 50% |
cloudy 50% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 59% |
cloudy 62% |
cloudy 55% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 30% |
Air quality |
bad 126 US AQI |
okay 84 US AQI |
okay 91 US AQI |
okay 74 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 54 US AQI |
clean 48 US AQI |
okay 55 US AQI |
okay 70 US AQI |
okay 90 US AQI |
bad 109 US AQI |
Sun |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 6,856 people | 7,210 people | 5,981 people | 5,758 people | 4,882 people | 3,886 people | 3,962 people | 4,029 people | 5,550 people | 6,356 people | 7,050 people | 7,008 people |
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I would be a bit careful with Pattaya, because the Police are cracking down on foreign illegal workers, Expessialy from Russia, and that can accidentally put a remote worker like me in the crossfire. That means that a digital nomad can be deported on a misunderstanding, because the police in Pattaya is not so used to deal with a digital nomads like they are in Phuket, Koh Samui and Chiang Mai, they put you in the same basket as illegally working Russians and out with you. Apart from that i would
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 🚕3h $1,317 / mo 103 Mbps ×Was really looking forward to Hua Hin after everything we had read. On the plus side, everything is very accessible and of course loads of high quality Thai food everywhere, mixed in with a bunch of expat options. Found the western-style markets and prices in general to be considerably more (in relative terms) than Bangkok. I imagine this is due to the large expat community here. Having said that, Covid has decimated the place and many expats have left. As an example, it’s Friday evening here
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83° ✈️12min $1,917 / mo 34 Mbps ×People - People are generally friendly - Not too many scams like BKK - Scams are low here because the city doesn't have the same attractions like BKK - Never ran in to a Digital Nomad here like Chiang Mai Language - English level is very low - If they can speak a little bit of English the people are shy to use it - Languages that you can use to get by are Thai, Cambodian and Lao Health - Hospitals have long line ups throughout the day. - Locals go in the morning to take a number, when their t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 58 😷 ✈️17min $1,082 / mo 113 Mbps ×Spent 2 months in 2011 and 3 month in 2012, amazing chill place. Waterfalls, wildlife, white sand beaches, local authentic fishermen villages (on both sides of island). One of my favorite places in Thailand, miss it so much (been in Samui, Chiang Mai, Pai, BKK, Pattaya, Ranong, total 2 years). Pai and Koh Chang, and Pattaya, are my top favorite places in Thailand.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83° 🥵 ✈️22min $1,668 / mo 29 Mbps ×The worst place that I've been to in Asia (& I've been to quite a few). Every interaction with a local is a sales pitch for something. Tuk tuk, massage, weed, food, prostitution, you name it. People look at you as a customer and nothing else. This is very different in other countries in South East Asia. I've had plenty of authentic, non-sales-pitchy interactions with locals in Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines or Thailand. None of that here. It feels like this place only exists to extract as much
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️29min $1,195 / mo 10 Mbps ×Been coming to Koh Tao for years, it's an under-rated island IMO. Its small size makes it a great place to stay and remote work from. Lots of great beaches, walking trails, climbing and of course scuba and snorkeling. An amazing selection of restaurants, great coworks and cafes to work from. Being smaller it helps you stay focused, spend less time travelling around etc. I personally have never felt unsafe there and pretty much all the nomads I meet there say the same. Power is much more
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85° ✈️33min $1,672 / mo 29 Mbps ×It's veryyyy chill (especially compared to Bali, Chiang Mai, Da Nang and Kuala Lumpur). Houses and villas are a bit simpler. There are like 30+ great cafes, restaurants and Thai places to eat and enjoy. There are hardly any hotspots here, so don't expect much exploration and culture. It's mainly relaxing (read: chilling, sunsets, beaches, coconuts, thai food, parties, weed, alcohol, fun people). We got some solid work and gym training in there as well during the day. We are coming back for sure
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️37min $1,624 / mo 29 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️37min $921 / mo 29 Mbps ×
Ko Samui is an amazing place, I don't agree at all with the CON's. I am a Thai-American and have lived all over Thailand. Ko Samui is my favorite. The people, culture and experience of Ko Samui is wonderful. The roads are dangerous usually due to tourists. Not the locals LOL! This will be changing with Thai law requiring drivers license's. Of course it is humid and sweaty, my goodness you are in the tropics, and April is the hottest month. I suggest researching the best times of year to visit t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85° ✈️38min $1,412 / mo 88 Mbps ×Chinese companies are building casinos everywhere, using Chinese labour and attracting Chinese clients who are presumably laundering money as there are much closer casinos to China than Sihanoukville. This place is getting worse, not better. However, it's the gateway to some nice islands.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 28° 83° 🥵 ✈️38min $1,164 / mo 10 Mbps ×I'd skip Vientiane if I was you. It's mostly for Chinese business people. But there's not much to see or do there. We visited the unexploded bomb museum, which was interesting but tiny. There's some French cafes and massage places. But everything is quite basic. I'd just go straight to Laung Prabang if you want to see more of Laos. Or Vang Vieng if you want to party. Vientiane wasn't very remote worker suitable either, just like entire Laos. Internet is slow and if it's not slow it's unstable
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 82° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️42min $1,025 / mo 7 Mbps ×Stayed in PP for around 2 months. I would say it appeals to a certain type of person. Unlike capital cities in neighboring countries, I found the vibe to be more relaxed. The city basically shuts down at 9pm. I would say if you want to visit, you should be willing to invest more in accomodations. I tried keeping my budget similar to those in Bangkok and that was my biggest mistake of my stay here. The Airbnbs I booked for around $20-25 a night had very slow wifi, no hot water or no water at all
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 16 ✈️43min $1,142 / mo 8 Mbps ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️47min $994 / mo 87 Mbps ×Lived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86° 🥵 ✈️55min $1,620 / mo 70 Mbps ×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 65 😷 ✈️2h $1,267 / mo 64 Mbps ×Ko Samui is an amazing place, I don't agree at all with the CON's. I am a Thai-American and have lived all over Thailand. Ko Samui is my favorite. The people, culture and experience of Ko Samui is wonderful. The roads are dangerous usually due to tourists. Not the locals LOL! This will be changing with Thai law requiring drivers license's. Of course it is humid and sweaty, my goodness you are in the tropics, and April is the hottest month. I suggest researching the best times of year to visit t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85° ✈️38min $1,412 / mo 88 Mbps ×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️2h $6,062 / mo 74 Mbps ×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 79° AQI 50 ✈️4h $1,844 / mo 50 Mbps ×It's veryyyy chill (especially compared to Bali, Chiang Mai, Da Nang and Kuala Lumpur). Houses and villas are a bit simpler. There are like 30+ great cafes, restaurants and Thai places to eat and enjoy. There are hardly any hotspots here, so don't expect much exploration and culture. It's mainly relaxing (read: chilling, sunsets, beaches, coconuts, thai food, parties, weed, alcohol, fun people). We got some solid work and gym training in there as well during the day. We are coming back for sure
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️37min $1,624 / mo 29 Mbps ×I would be a bit careful with Pattaya, because the Police are cracking down on foreign illegal workers, Expessialy from Russia, and that can accidentally put a remote worker like me in the crossfire. That means that a digital nomad can be deported on a misunderstanding, because the police in Pattaya is not so used to deal with a digital nomads like they are in Phuket, Koh Samui and Chiang Mai, they put you in the same basket as illegally working Russians and out with you. Apart from that i would
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 🚕3h $1,317 / mo 103 Mbps ×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️60min $1,030 / mo 53 Mbps ×The worst place that I've been to in Asia (& I've been to quite a few). Every interaction with a local is a sales pitch for something. Tuk tuk, massage, weed, food, prostitution, you name it. People look at you as a customer and nothing else. This is very different in other countries in South East Asia. I've had plenty of authentic, non-sales-pitchy interactions with locals in Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines or Thailand. None of that here. It feels like this place only exists to extract as much
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️29min $1,195 / mo 10 Mbps ×Hong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️2h $2,925 / mo 66 Mbps ×Two weeks in Hanoi. Really enjoyed the city. Besides, the pollution, a nice charming city. Great access to all the tourist destinations in the north Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh, Sa Pa. WiFi is excellent. Food is excellent. People are friendly. Not a nightlife person or coworking space but it's available. Cafes are everywhere and yes egg coffee is amazing. Definitely recommend.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 51° 124° 36° 97° 🥵 AQI 104 😷 ✈️1h $1,054 / mo 44 Mbps ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️47min $994 / mo 🌇 Also went here1,491 people ×Lived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86° 🥵 ✈️55min $1,620 / mo 🌇 Also went here933 people ×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️60min $1,030 / mo 🌇 Also went here868 people ×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 65 😷 ✈️2h $1,267 / mo 🌇 Also went here1,101 people ×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️2h $6,062 / mo 🌇 Also went here1,135 people ×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 79° AQI 50 ✈️4h $1,844 / mo 🌇 Also went here917 people ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️6h $3,081 / mo 🌇 Also went here882 people ×The city is overrated. I feel like I have to be on guard most of the time. People are always trying to scam you, from taxi drivers to waitresses. It's fine for a three-day vacation which is more than enough but staying long-term is very subjective... Airbnbs are overpriced for what you get. Turkish hospitality is a joke. They’re really good at conning tourists here. I stayed for a month, but I should've just passed through. A layover at the airport would've been plenty.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78° AQI 43 ✈️10h $1,858 / mo 🌇 Also went here743 people ×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° AQI 46 ✈️11h $3,831 / mo 🌇 Also went here846 people ×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67° AQI 27 ✈️12h $5,666 / mo 🌇 Also went here849 people ×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72° AQI 55 😷 ✈️13h $5,439 / mo 🌇 Also went here933 people ×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 25 ✈️13h $5,697 / mo 🌇 Also went here1,035 people ×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85° AQI 34 ✈️13h $4,598 / mo 🌇 Also went here949 people ×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 26° 80° AQI 29 ✈️14h $3,872 / mo 🌇 Also went here961 people ×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78° ✈️19h $6,831 / mo 🌇 Also went here817 people ×
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