⭐️ Total score | 2.45/5 (Rank #1011) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,137 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 10Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 A bit cold: 17°C62°F (feels 17°C63°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 77% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 50 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Great |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Great |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $1,436 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Healthcare* | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Greece |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 10 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 17°C 62°F + 💦 Damp (77%) = feels 17°C 63°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 50 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 108 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Lukumamma |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Fournariko Bakery |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 5% of visitors return |
📸 Visitors per year | 2,252,100 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 43,161 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 90,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $17,230 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 77% 👱♀️ 23% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Skroutz |
🏠 Apartment listings | Spitogatos |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aegean Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Med Life S.A. |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,137 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,813 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,289 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,511 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $800 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,494 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,073 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $82 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $201 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $28 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Very damp now
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° warm | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 8429° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 5915° cool |
Real | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6116° cool | 6619° mild | 7725° warm | 8027° warm | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 5915° cool |
Humidity | damp 72% | damp 71% | nice 61% | nice 62% | nice 58% | nice 59% | nice 57% | nice 54% | nice 58% | nice 66% | nice 71% | damp 73% |
Rain | rainy 63mm | dry 32mm | dry 34mm | dry 9mm | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 0mm | dry 0mm | dry 2mm | dry 45mm | dry 41mm | rainy 160mm |
Cloud | cloudy 66% | pockets 21% | pockets 26% | pockets 43% | pockets 13% | clear 2% | clear 0% | clear 0% | clear 2% | pockets 18% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 58% |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 240 people | 200 people | 550 people | 378 people | 311 people | 350 people | 360 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 114😷✈️2h$2,454 / mo30Mbps×Visited the small, cute part of RIGA's old town and the ART NOUVEAU architecture that is located a bit outside the center. Seemed quite juvenile + full of tourists during the summer of JULY 2019. Has a bit of that ex-comunist era inside the city.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 18✈️13h$4,057 / mo16Mbps×I am a Greek living abroad just the last couple of years. I accidentally discovered this page and noticed the comments below. What I can recommend to people considering living in Athens is to explore places a bit outside of the city center. I agree with people that there are many areas very close to the city center that are dirty and perhaps not very safe to walk around at night. Explore areas like Glyfada, Voula, Kifisia, Marousi, Psychiko, Marousi and you will be amazed with how different it i
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 102😷✈️34min$3,829 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×Taxis in Istanbul are a big problem even for locals. Public transport is convenient and comfortable. If you need to call a taxi, I recommend using an app. "Bitaksi" can be used. Agree with the taxi driver using google translate and negotiate in advance if necessary. Always make public transportation your first choice. There are millions of refugees in this city against a registered population of 15 million. A significant number of asylum seekers do not have any registered documents and this cre
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 114😷✈️2h$2,454 / mo🌇 Also went here28 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 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 53✈️2h$7,704 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×Extremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 46✈️2h$5,198 / mo🌇 Also went here26 people×Prague is a beautiful city and I like it despite its quirks. I use it as a base in Europe. It has literally everything you need for long-term living: high-quality food, great nightlife, cool malls with lots of shops, and most people speak English. It even has its own local version of Amazon called Alza, with pick-up stations scattered all over the city, which is great because you usually cannot receive packages in an Airbnb. The city is very walkable and I love just walking around, looking at
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 62✈️3h$4,487 / mo🌇 Also went here26 people×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 72✈️3h$4,062 / mo🌇 Also went here35 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 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 34✈️3h$5,285 / mo🌇 Also went here38 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 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 27✈️3h$5,846 / mo🌇 Also went here29 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 9° 48° 11° 52°AQI 24✈️3h$9,054 / mo🌇 Also went here30 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 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 33✈️4h$6,332 / mo🌇 Also went here44 people×Dubai is good if you’ve figured out a way to pay 0 income tax and live in 2 places (away doing vacations during the summer) - bonus if you don’t spend money on alcohol. Nightlife is amazing, especially if you’re a woman. Free unlimited drinks for ladies, open bar, no catch, in two clubs in Media One Tower on Thursday. There is no place in the world that offers this. My female friends love Dubai because of these types of deals lol. The easiest way to waste money here is by buying drinks.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 85😷✈️4h$3,415 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people×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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 19° 66° 18° 65°AQI 28✈️4h$3,841 / mo🌇 Also went here31 people×I agree so much with this review from 11 months ago. "A city right out of a dystopian novel" - that's what I was thinking on the way to the Airport after spending just a week in Bangkok. A city right out of a dystopian novel - soulless and cynical. The air is polluted and no trees are in sight. Its inhabitants manipulative and cold-hearted - hidden behind fake smiles. A Disney Land for senile retirees. Everything is for sale and nothing has value. The streets are filled with rats - both human o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🙂 Good😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 45° 113° 34° 93°🥵AQI 80😷✈️10h$2,084 / mo🌇 Also went here31 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 14° 57° 14° 58°AQI 31✈️11h$6,292 / mo🌇 Also went here27 people×