🏆 Nomad Score™ | 3.6/5 |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,665 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 2Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 6°C42°F |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Perfect: 43% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 Unhealthy: 69 µg/m3 |
👌 Safety | Great |
👍 Quality of life | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🙊 English speaking | Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech | Bad |
🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBT friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
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🌍 Region | Asia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🚩 Country | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
⛅️ Weather | 🌥 6°C 42°F + 💦 Not humid (43%) + 💨 4km/h = Feels like 6°C 43°F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 69 µg/m3 equal to 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎 91 µg/m3 equal to 🚬 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🚕 Best taxi app | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: CNY 1,000 | USD 143 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
💸 Tipping | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
👨👩👧👦 Population | 970,000 people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
👫 Gender ratio | 👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,665 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,238 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,654 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $758 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $459 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $72 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $815 / month |
🏨 Hotel | $38 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (102 listings) | $2,243 / month |
🏠 Airbnb | $74 / night |
🍝 Dinner | $3 |
🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $4 |
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✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
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❌ Bad air quality year round
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❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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