⭐️ Total score |
2.36/5 (Rank #517)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
🧐 Pricey: $3,361 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🏎 Fast: 61Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Nice: 19°C66°F (feels 19°C66°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 70%
|
💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Great: 9 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Good
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Great
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Good
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
High |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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💰 Income level* |
Low:
$787 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Good |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Good |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Okay |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Good |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Good |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Romania |
🗓️ Average trip length | 6 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 61 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 19°C 66°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 19°C 66°F
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💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 10 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Uber |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 RON in USD | USD 2.16 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RON 1,000 = USD 216 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Caffe Tour |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 390,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $9,439 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Emag |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Wizz Air |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,361 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,814 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $6,607 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,888 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,564 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,493 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,824 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $73 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $82 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $47 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $16 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
41
5° cold |
39
4° cold |
39
4° cold |
52
11° cool |
68
20° mild |
73
23° mild |
81
27° warm |
81
27° warm |
72
22° mild |
57
14° cool |
52
11° cool |
41
5° cold |
Real |
44
7°
cold |
43
6°
very cold |
43
6°
very cold |
52
11°
cool |
66
19°
mild |
73
23°
mild |
81
27°
warm |
81
27°
warm |
72
22°
mild |
57
14°
cool |
52
11°
cool |
44
7°
cold |
Humidity |
nice 41% |
nice 39% |
nice 37% |
nice 38% |
nice 39% |
nice 41% |
nice 39% |
nice 34% |
nice 32% |
nice 38% |
nice 39% |
nice 41% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain |
dry 43mm |
dry 25mm |
dry 45mm |
dry 43mm |
dry 30mm |
rainy 60mm |
dry 39mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 6mm |
dry 46mm |
dry 40mm |
dry 44mm |
Cloud |
pockets 45% |
pockets 34% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 14% |
pockets 18% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 43% |
cloudy 55% |
Air quality |
clean 16 US AQI |
clean 10 US AQI |
clean 14 US AQI |
clean 7 US AQI |
clean 3 US AQI |
clean 8 US AQI |
clean 9 US AQI |
clean 11 US AQI |
clean 10 US AQI |
clean 22 US AQI |
clean 12 US AQI |
clean 16 US AQI |
Sun |
safe 1 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 45° 113° 36° 96° 🥵 AQI 70 😷 ✈️10h $1,343 / mo 🌇 Also went here6 people ×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 68 😷 ✈️11h $1,221 / mo 🌇 Also went here6 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.
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