⭐️ Total score | 2.68/5 (Rank #651) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,259 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 6Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 29°C84°F (feels 33°C91°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 75% |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 8k ppl/km² (11x11m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
⏱ Average trip length | 12 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75%) = feels 33°C 91°F |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 1.98 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 198 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Impact Hub |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Orbe Coworking |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍11% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 11x11m (121m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 42% 👱♀️ 58% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 80% 👱♀️ 20% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Zap |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Azul |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Tam |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,259 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,637 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,650 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,043 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $764 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,469 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $922 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $36 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $48 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $11 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $3,200 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $10,460 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $28,475 |
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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Real | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 79% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 79% |
Rain | rainy 52mm | rainy 74mm | rainy 96mm | rainy 185mm | rainy 188mm | rainy 121mm | rainy 154mm | rainy 180mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 53mm | dry 39mm | rainy 111mm |
Cloud | cloudy 76% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 59% | pockets 48% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 67% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 345 people | 260 people | 325 people | 267 people | 314 people | 267 people | 200 people | 429 people | 300 people | 350 people | 450 people | 540 people |
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A quite underrated city, deserves more visitors! Great beaches, delicious food and probably the cheapest capital in Brazil. Just go!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°🚕3h$2,174 / mo4Mbps×There are not a lot of places to work from, there are not many cafes. The city is not so fun, but the city is close to great dunes and beaches. The sitances are relatively long and since its always very hot it is not ideal to walk. My score would be nomad score would be 2.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵✈️20min$1,375 / mo6Mbps×Does not worth it, way too dangerous and not so beautiful. My grandpa lives there and I went to visit him on my vacation and it was terrible, very dangerous, beaches in downtown are super polluted, I couldn't find a reason to indicate it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵✈️50min$1,540 / mo11Mbps×Vitória is a rising city in Brazil. It is an island, capital of the province of Espírito Santo. With a variety of well developed sectors and industries, such as mining, steel, granite, coffee, the city has rising innovation economy lead by companies like Wine and Picpay and hubs such as Findes Lab, Hub Fucape and Base27, connecting startups and investors. Vitória has a unique life quality: In Vitória you can go for a walk on the beach in the morning and in a few minutes, with lo traffic, ar
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 7✈️2h$2,037 / mo5Mbps×Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌤 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°AQI 8✈️2h$1,490 / mo8Mbps×Brasilia is a hidden gem in the middle of Brazil. Very safe city, with good restaurants, super safe traffic, very green, perfect for biking, and with a high level of education. Shaped like an airplane, it is the most famous planned town in the world, by legendary architect Oscar Niemayer. Internet is good, you can rent a cheap Airbnb, most of them with a green view, There are more than 800 waterfalls close by (check Chapada dos Veadeiros) and hiking spots. The climate very pleasant as long as
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 11✈️2h$2,375 / mo7Mbps×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°🥵AQI 8✈️3h$2,339 / mo6Mbps×Been to 29 cities in 6 months and I can say Rio is AMAZING. However not safe at all, by my first week I knew a total of 10 people that got robbed (3 groups). I've been living here for almost 1 month recharging from fast traveling and haven't been robbed.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 8✈️3h$2,487 / mo4Mbps×A quite underrated city, deserves more visitors! Great beaches, delicious food and probably the cheapest capital in Brazil. Just go!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°🚕3h$2,174 / mo4Mbps×I'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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 53✈️9h$6,457 / mo30Mbps×Does not worth it, way too dangerous and not so beautiful. My grandpa lives there and I went to visit him on my vacation and it was terrible, very dangerous, beaches in downtown are super polluted, I couldn't find a reason to indicate it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵✈️50min$1,540 / mo11Mbps×i stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 12✈️5h$1,861 / mo37Mbps×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 38✈️10h$5,294 / mo16Mbps×Unfortunately 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 30° 86°🥵AQI 61✈️6h$2,268 / mo7Mbps×Great for a visit. Beautiful scenery. Good food. I thought it would be great to live here, start a startup and be in the same time zone as SF, close to Seattle, etc. But compared to Vancouver in 2009, one big change that totally ruined it for me: Absolute zombie apocalypse of drug addicts and shouting/violent home less people. It was shockingly bad. The locals often visibly carry naxalone (anti-overdose medicine, I learned) because there are so many people overdosing in the street. Police were n
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 7° 45° 7° 44°AQI 53✈️14h$4,378 / mo16Mbps×Very nice and underrated city. Many parks, and things to do. The best neighborhoods are Centro (near Shopping Estacao) and Batel (near Praca Japao). You can do everything on foot. Everything is cheap by European standards. The nightlife is very good, Latin America standard. Women are beautiful. Security is okay in these neighborhoods, but be aware. English speaking is only possible with young people or some adults. The weather is good and comfortable in the fall. One of my favorite cities in Bra
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 31✈️3h$1,396 / mo6Mbps×Been to 29 cities in 6 months and I can say Rio is AMAZING. However not safe at all, by my first week I knew a total of 10 people that got robbed (3 groups). I've been living here for almost 1 month recharging from fast traveling and haven't been robbed.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 8✈️3h$2,487 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Stay in one of these neighborhoods: Itaim Bibi, Jardim Europa, Jardim Paulista, or Pinheiros, and it will be great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 29° 84° 26° 79°🥵AQI 8✈️3h$2,339 / mo🌇 Also went here84 people×i stayed in BA for a few months and it firmly wasn't for me. It's a beautiful city and comically cheap for the quality of food / goods / services. People are rude and accomodation is pretty bad. Plus with the inflation of the dollar to peso (3x the buying power for foreigners) it was getting dangerous when I left. (I think someone tried to kill the vice president last week) Excellent to visit, not great to live.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 12✈️5h$1,861 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×Unfortunately 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 29° 84° 30° 86°🥵AQI 61✈️6h$2,268 / mo🌇 Also went here61 people×I'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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 58°AQI 32✈️8h$3,462 / mo🌇 Also went here77 people×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 70✈️8h$4,658 / mo🌇 Also went here58 people×Nomading 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 59✈️9h$5,448 / mo🌇 Also went here74 people×I'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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 53✈️9h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here83 people×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 53°AQI 16✈️10h$5,468 / mo🌇 Also went here81 people×It´s difficult to make friends here. Generally speaking, lifelong friends are made in school and then there´s family. People are very nice and sociable but forget about making friends. Lots of really bad restaurants (tourist traps) so you have to be careful where you go. I´ve lived here for two years so I have gotten to know some good places. Tons of tourists and overcroweded public transport. Yes, it´s a beautiful city but quite unlivable.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 80😷✈️10h$5,678 / mo🌇 Also went here60 people×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 38✈️10h$5,294 / mo🌇 Also went here74 people×A 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 16✈️10h$6,588 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×I really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 30° 85°🥵AQI 157😷✈️20h$1,354 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×Bangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 36° 97° 30° 87°🥵AQI 119😷✈️20h$2,177 / mo🌇 Also went here63 people×