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| ⭐️ Total score | 55 reviews |
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| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
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| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Mexico |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 14 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (62%) = feels 27°C 81°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 88 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 60.75 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V 60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 100 MXN in USD | USD 5.37 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MXN 10,000 = USD 537 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | El Cowork |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | Coworking Monterrey |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,444 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 48% 👱♀️ 52% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 74% 👱♀️ 26% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Linio |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Avisosdeocasion |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Volaris |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeromexico |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,657 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,002 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,131 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $609 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,065 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,145 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $474 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $50 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $172 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
70
21° mild |
73
23° mild |
81
27° warm |
93
34° hot |
95
35° hot |
99
37° hot |
97
36° hot |
104
40° hot |
99
37° hot |
86
30° warm |
73
23° mild |
77
25° warm |
| Real |
68
20°
mild |
73
23°
mild |
79
26°
warm |
86
30°
very warm |
86
30°
very warm |
88
31°
hot |
86
30°
very warm |
90
32°
hot |
88
31°
hot |
82
28°
very warm |
73
23°
mild |
77
25°
warm |
| Humidity |
nice 48% |
nice 55% |
nice 54% |
nice 63% |
sweaty 72% |
nice 69% |
sweaty 76% |
nice 69% |
nice 69% |
nice 69% |
nice 69% |
nice 52% |
| Rain |
dry 20mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 16mm |
dry 41mm |
rainy 79mm |
rainy 112mm |
rainy 120mm |
rainy 68mm |
rainy 114mm |
rainy 85mm |
dry 38mm |
dry 21mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 26% |
pockets 21% |
pockets 28% |
pockets 44% |
cloudy 53% |
pockets 34% |
cloudy 52% |
pockets 28% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 41% |
pockets 33% |
| Air quality |
okay 62 US AQI |
okay 65 US AQI |
okay 73 US AQI |
okay 65 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 69 US AQI |
okay 60 US AQI |
okay 54 US AQI |
okay 57 US AQI |
okay 57 US AQI |
okay 72 US AQI |
okay 56 US AQI |
| Sun |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
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GDL is great for a short trip. But, it's only March 10, and already it's getting hot. I can't imagine the heat in May or Summer. All in all, it's a great place to visit for a week or two. There's lots to do and see. But, after staying here for a month, I'm ready to move on.
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I've stayed in Merida for about 1 month during winter. I really enjoyed the Merida fest which take place during the month of January. I felt very safe in this city and people are very friendly. There are plenty of cafes in Centro where you can work and the internet is quite good. Overall, it's a great place to be and I would see myself stay for a long time.
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Touristy circus of a place. Everyone is trying to rip you off... even as fluent Spanish speaker. Check out PV or anywhere west coast instead.
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I 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.
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I grew up in Chicago and still return fairly often. I love the character of the different neighborhoods, the variety of architectural styles, and as others have said, the food scene is incredible. It's easy to make friends in the suburbs, perhaps not so much in the city itself. I have never witnessed racial tension here, and have been pleasantly surprised by the interracial friendliness I have observed. There are a wonderful selection of forests and parks just about everywhere, and the museu
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How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
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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.
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I love Laureles which is calmer, lots of tress, great restaurants. I don't like Poblado which is noisier, more polluted and more party.
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Pros - extremely cheap (excl. housing), great transportation system (both subway and busses), great pastry shops Cons - expensive airbnbs, rude people who can be fairly racist towards blacks (worldcup was a tough time given how openly people were cursing about black people in bars and home get togethers I went to) and other south americans (weird superiority complex), a tad depressing given the current economic crises (almost everyone is going through a rough time so it is difficult to enjoy yo
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Lisbon is not a fairytale of fine words, try the bureaucratic reality later tell me something, always remember the natives just want your money if you don't have it they are not there for you
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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.
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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
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