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| ⭐️ Total score | 36 reviews |
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| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Bolivia |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 35°C 94°F + 😊 Comfy (58%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 BOB in USD | USD 1.44 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BOB 1,000 = USD 144 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,105 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | BOA |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | BOA |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,392 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $822 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,878 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $536 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $877 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $380 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $41 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $143 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,358 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $17 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $8 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
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| Real | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8027° warm | 7524° warm | 7826° warm | 8228° very warm | 8932° hot | 8932° hot | 8530° very warm | 8530° very warm |
| Humidity | nice 44% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 35% | nice 36% | too dry 24% | too dry 21% | too dry 26% | too dry 29% | nice 38% | nice 42% |
| Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
| Rain | rainy 190mm | rainy 132mm | rainy 124mm | rainy 86mm | dry 21mm | dry 49mm | dry 4mm | dry 27mm | dry 35mm | rainy 100mm | rainy 146mm | rainy 172mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 53% | pockets 47% | pockets 42% | pockets 45% | pockets 43% | pockets 46% | pockets 28% | pockets 24% | pockets 26% | pockets 47% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 52% |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
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The food here is excellent. Bolivians call it food capital of the country. Food is also cheap. Not a lot of variety, but it's good, and they care. Otherwise, a nice city. But not a place for nomads as far as I can tell. Nobody speaks English
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°✈️27min$1,320 / mo7MbpsLa Paz and Bolivia in general is a very interesting place to visit! The city is fairly cold all year around, and so is the hotels and restaurants… basically make sure to bring warm clothes. The city is messy, ugly and unorganized, but the city have a character! The surroundings of the nature and environment around is amazing, beautiful mountains and such. When getting a SIM card it is 3G and LTE. I never found Wi-Fi reaching 10 Mbps (At the Selina Hostel where I stayed). Prices here doesn�
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°✈️45min$1,796 / mo7Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 12° 54°✈️46min$1,497 / mo7Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°✈️1h$5,205 / mo25Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 21✈️1h$2,142 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°✈️1h$929 / mo19Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 56° 133° 34° 93°🥵✈️1h$1,323 / mo18MbpsI spent two months in Arequipa and loved most of it! Lovely people and a lot of nature around. The beautiful Colca Canyon is near, where you can also see the Andean Condor or book multiple-day hiking tours. It is close to Puno which you should visit as well and it's easy to go to Cusco from here, to see the famous Macchu Picchu. For working it wasn't that great, unfortunately, with slow internet and the available coworking spaces not quite as nice as I had hoped. It's still okay though, so not
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°✈️1h$1,199 / mo14Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 58° 136° 38° 100°🥵✈️1h$1,535 / mo46Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 23✈️1h$2,603 / mo19MbpsVery bad place to visit right now. The country is in a time of political and civil unrest, with mass protests closing down airports, train stations, and roads since early December 2022 (it is now mid January 2023). Tourists have had to be evacuated. The train to Machu Picchu is indefinitely closed until further notice. 48 people have died in the conflicts so far. Peru, and Cusco in particular, is a beautiful place with amazing things to see - but right now is not the time to visit.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels -18° -0° -18° 0°✈️1h$1,256 / mo46Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 58° 136° 35° 94°🥵✈️2h$4,175 / mo23MbpsLa Paz and Bolivia in general is a very interesting place to visit! The city is fairly cold all year around, and so is the hotels and restaurants… basically make sure to bring warm clothes. The city is messy, ugly and unorganized, but the city have a character! The surroundings of the nature and environment around is amazing, beautiful mountains and such. When getting a SIM card it is 3G and LTE. I never found Wi-Fi reaching 10 Mbps (At the Selina Hostel where I stayed). Prices here doesn�
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°✈️45min$1,796 / mo7MbpsBuenos Aires is great in every aspect. Most people are nice, friendly, open minded and educated. Food, transportation, nightlife and shops... excellent. On the other hand, as any other major city in the world you can find not so nice people, some places can be unsafe, and you might feel overwhelmed by the distances between places. (It´s not unusual to take bus-subway and overground train to go somewhere) but as said before, public transportation is quite clean, cheap and efficient. They are no
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 47° 117° 36° 97°🥵AQI 25✈️3h$1,064 / mo70Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 58° 136° 38° 100°🥵✈️1h$1,535 / mo46MbpsI 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 59😷✈️13h$5,616 / mo29MbpsThe food here is excellent. Bolivians call it food capital of the country. Food is also cheap. Not a lot of variety, but it's good, and they care. Otherwise, a nice city. But not a place for nomads as far as I can tell. Nobody speaks English
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°✈️27min$1,320 / mo7MbpsOkay so I finally took the leap of faith and came to Medellin. For a bit of statistics, I am female travelling alone. Like many, I was scared of my safety because of everything we hear about Colombia being dangerous BUT I have good news for you! This place is freaking AWESOME! It is not as dangerous as it used to be 20 years ago. Trust me! I was walking around the streets feeling so safe, meeting colombian people, dancing with them in the salsa classes, going on tours...I just loved it! I love C
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 76😷✈️4h$1,637 / mo51MbpsI spent a month here. I think it's a livable city but I don't know the value of living here long-term compared to other cities in LatAm. Pros: - Great bar and restaurant scene. Coffee shops are really chill. Service is really good for the most part, but everyone is too cool to be friendly (hipsters). - It doesn't feel too unsafe, especially if you're not out late at night. It's no worse than any US coastal city. Maybe even safer. (came from Chicago, definitely safer than Chicago) - There are so
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 153😷✈️8h$2,182 / mo56MbpsBali for grownups. It's perfectly safe. I could walk in 95% areas of Floripa at night with my phone taken out without any feeling of danger. Safer than Rio, for sure. All types of water sport and hikes are available here, so it's a good place for people who are into nature. Place isn't very trendy and service sometimes isn't that good but it's getting there. As anywhere in Brazil, people here don't in general speak English. But they're so friendly that they will always try to help you out and sm
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 44° 111° 31° 88°🥵✈️2h$2,344 / mo58MbpsStayed in for a month and it was enough for me. Pros: -Great weather. -Great Restaurant scene -Amazing areas to walk around and super green for a major city -Lots to do, was never bored here -Good healthcare -Good shopping Cons: -The pollution is quite bad and very noisy - Cost, one of the most expensive places in Latin America, maybe Cancun & Cabo are the only places more expensive -The traffic was probably the worst I have ever witnessed, very chaotic. -Starting to become westernised so a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°✈️8h$2,153 / mo67MbpsVienna is a great place to visit but do not DN here. The internet is either awful of non-existent—even in coffee shops.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 17✈️14h$3,828 / mo37MbpsI guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°✈️7h$6,777 / mo88MbpsBeen living here 3 months. Overall i would say its a place only good for short trips to like machu picchu/rainbow mountain. My rating 5/10. Pros - extremely safe especially in miraflores and barranco. Airbnbs cheap enough if you are ok living the cramped condo life. Breathtaking views off the cliff and pacific ocean. Excellent japanese food.Internet reliable and fast. Cons - hassle to get sim card have to go with passport and dependong where you go theres long lines. Immigration gives shor
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°AQI 54😷✈️2h$1,363 / mo134MbpsLa Paz and Bolivia in general is a very interesting place to visit! The city is fairly cold all year around, and so is the hotels and restaurants… basically make sure to bring warm clothes. The city is messy, ugly and unorganized, but the city have a character! The surroundings of the nature and environment around is amazing, beautiful mountains and such. When getting a SIM card it is 3G and LTE. I never found Wi-Fi reaching 10 Mbps (At the Selina Hostel where I stayed). Prices here doesn�
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°✈️45min$1,796 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleVery bad place to visit right now. The country is in a time of political and civil unrest, with mass protests closing down airports, train stations, and roads since early December 2022 (it is now mid January 2023). Tourists have had to be evacuated. The train to Machu Picchu is indefinitely closed until further notice. 48 people have died in the conflicts so far. Peru, and Cusco in particular, is a beautiful place with amazing things to see - but right now is not the time to visit.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels -18° -0° -18° 0°✈️1h$1,256 / mo🌇 Also went here12 peopleBeen living here 3 months. Overall i would say its a place only good for short trips to like machu picchu/rainbow mountain. My rating 5/10. Pros - extremely safe especially in miraflores and barranco. Airbnbs cheap enough if you are ok living the cramped condo life. Breathtaking views off the cliff and pacific ocean. Excellent japanese food.Internet reliable and fast. Cons - hassle to get sim card have to go with passport and dependong where you go theres long lines. Immigration gives shor
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 78°AQI 54😷✈️2h$1,363 / mo🌇 Also went here17 peopleUnfortunately this was supposed to be the best economy in LATAM but what I found instead was a very over priced for what you get experience. People are rude in general, until you get to meet them personally, and the country is way behind in infrastructure, innovation and culture that most countries around it. Not worth your time and money at all.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 30° 86°🥵AQI 51😷✈️3h$2,119 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleBuenos Aires is great in every aspect. Most people are nice, friendly, open minded and educated. Food, transportation, nightlife and shops... excellent. On the other hand, as any other major city in the world you can find not so nice people, some places can be unsafe, and you might feel overwhelmed by the distances between places. (It´s not unusual to take bus-subway and overground train to go somewhere) but as said before, public transportation is quite clean, cheap and efficient. They are no
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 47° 117° 36° 97°🥵AQI 25✈️3h$1,064 / mo🌇 Also went here23 peopleOkay so I finally took the leap of faith and came to Medellin. For a bit of statistics, I am female travelling alone. Like many, I was scared of my safety because of everything we hear about Colombia being dangerous BUT I have good news for you! This place is freaking AWESOME! It is not as dangerous as it used to be 20 years ago. Trust me! I was walking around the streets feeling so safe, meeting colombian people, dancing with them in the salsa classes, going on tours...I just loved it! I love C
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 76😷✈️4h$1,637 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleI guess if you're a nomad this doesn't matter much, but the long-term job pickings here are slim and among the most underpaid for a US city. There seems to be a tacit rent floor that means you won't find a good deal on housing. A lot of people don't seem very invested in their interpersonal relationships here since their ties to the area are often transient.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°✈️7h$6,777 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleStayed in for a month and it was enough for me. Pros: -Great weather. -Great Restaurant scene -Amazing areas to walk around and super green for a major city -Lots to do, was never bored here -Good healthcare -Good shopping Cons: -The pollution is quite bad and very noisy - Cost, one of the most expensive places in Latin America, maybe Cancun & Cabo are the only places more expensive -The traffic was probably the worst I have ever witnessed, very chaotic. -Starting to become westernised so a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°✈️8h$2,153 / mo🌇 Also went here12 peopleOnce you figure out housing (not an easy thing but doable, especially once you stop looking in the touristic areas), Lisbon is a very charming, safe (even though I'll admit this is getting worse in certain areas), and fun city to live in. In most neighbourhoods you have the feeling of living in a small town instead of an urban area. There's aways something to do or see so it's hard to be bored living here. I still find Lisbon (and Portugal in general), to be one of the most attractive places in
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 35✈️11h$3,622 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleI 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 59😷✈️13h$5,616 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 9° 48°AQI 25✈️23h$2,733 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleWas here in Mid-2023. Bali has completely changed from when I last visited in 2017. Full of arrogant influences and degenerate party people who are entitled and have no respect for the locals. Many Uber drivers told me they are starting to get annoyed because a lot of Westerners don’t respect anything…. Pollution and traffic are on the rise. It is turning into Kuta. Probably one of the least walkable places, forget walking on the sidewalk unless you want to get taken out. A lot of accidents
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 50✈️23h$1,927 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleI only stayed for 3 weeks cause the life is kind of boring compared to Tokyo or Osaka. It helps a lot if you speak some korean since not many people speak english and most restaurants don't have english menu. The internet is fast but the public transportation is always crowded.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 3° 38°AQI 99😷✈️23h$2,599 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleIt's getting better. I came here just before the Chinese New Year, and the city was very lively. Lots of people, live music, etc. The decorations in the shopping mall were beautiful, and there were so many food options that it would take a year to try them all.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 67😷✈️24h$1,317 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleMy favorite city for nomading. Cheap, great food, lots to do, modern amenities, plenty of travel options nearby.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 34° 94°🥵AQI 87😷✈️24h$1,394 / mo🌇 Also went here11 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
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