⭐️ Total score |
2.16/5 (Rank #931)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,582 / mo
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📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 8Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Perfect: 29°C84°F (feels 34°C93°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 77%
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👌 Safety |
Very bad
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🤮 Food safety* |
Okay
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Very bad
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Okay |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Great
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💰 Income level* |
Low:
$769 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Okay |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Venezuela |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 8 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (77%) = feels 34°C 93°F
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🔌 Power | 115V 60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 Tipping | No |
☕️ Best coffee place | Maxi Donas |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 420,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $9,230 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Libre |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Conviasa |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Conviasa |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,582 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,026 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,762 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $503 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $662 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,567 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $400 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $31 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $188 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $6 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $5,633 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $7 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $5 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads are very dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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Feels |
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81
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81
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26° warm |
79
26° warm |
81
27° warm |
81
27° warm |
79
26° warm |
79
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Real |
76
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77
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78
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warm |
80
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79
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81
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80
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79
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78
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Humidity |
nice 40% |
nice 39% |
nice 39% |
nice 39% |
nice 41% |
nice 44% |
nice 43% |
nice 44% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 41% |
nice 42% |
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Rain |
rainy 61mm |
dry 32mm |
rainy 99mm |
rainy 194mm |
rainy 209mm |
rainy 166mm |
rainy 192mm |
rainy 157mm |
rainy 155mm |
rainy 232mm |
rainy 110mm |
rainy 89mm |
Cloud |
pockets 27% |
pockets 25% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 30% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 29% |
Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
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I come from venezuela and the hospitals are definitely not great, my family have to go to Colombia to get treatment when they get sick so you get an idea of the condition of the health care system in Venezuela. The rest of the pros and cons are pretty accurate 👌🏼
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This island is wonderful ! I was there for a month and I fell in love with Curaçao. Just to rectify : The tap water is incredibly good to drink !! Anywhere you go you can drink tap water, even once I was in Daaibooi Beach which is 30 km away from the main city and I asked the guy at the snack bar to fill my bottle and the water was as nice as downtown !! Amazing !! If you are a bike rider (bicycle), forget it ! You will get killed, there is no shoulder, neither sidewalks. Some roads look
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety bad Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 27° 81° AQI 77 😷 ✈️20min $4,231 / mo 15 Mbps ×I (F35) have lived and worked here for approx. 8 months. I am part of the LGBTQI+ community and and am based in NL. During my stay I was openly myself and had 0 bad, rude or dangerous encounters. Well the law is behind the in terms of legality, the gay scene is quite big and out there. It's one of the most LGBTQI+ friendliest islands in the Caribbean on many lists. That is why I chose Aruba instead of other islands. I find it odd the ranking towards LBGTIQ+ is hostile.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open ☀️ Feels 31° 88° 28° 83° ✈️54min $3,593 / mo 37 Mbps ×
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 48° 118° 37° 98° 🥵 ✈️5h $1,650 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×Bali 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety very bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° ✈️6h $1,566 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×I did not like it. The people are nice though. Palermo Hollywood and Soho are very walkable hipster neighborhoods, kinda remind me of the chill parts of Barcelona. Food is hit or miss. For a country that's known for steak, most steak here is overcooked, low quality meat, without flavor. I heard it was better 10-20 years ago when the cows weren't factory farmed here. Now the free roaming cows are exported to US and Europe, while Argentineans eat the low quality cow meat. The other food than ste
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° ✈️7h $2,862 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67° ✈️8h $1,522 / mo 🌇 Also went here1 people ×
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