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| ⭐️ Overall score | 239 reviews |
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| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| ❤️ Liked by members | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Latvia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 23 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 23°C 73°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 17 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Bite |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | StartupLatvia |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 11% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 640,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $13,993 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 39% 👱♀️ 61% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Baltic |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Baltic |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | €1,712 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €1,063 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €2,152 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €615 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €393 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €74 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €823 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €39 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (106 listings) | €1,067 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €35 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €9 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0.83 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 21-6° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 341° cold | 5211° cool | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 5915° cool | 5211° cool | 394° cold | 362° cold |
| Real | 28-2° freezing | 362° very cold | 394° very cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 7222° mild | 5915° cool | 5412° cool | 436° very cold | 415° very cold |
| Humidity | damp 73% | damp 78% | nice 69% | nice 54% | nice 64% | nice 64% | nice 69% | nice 68% | nice 66% | damp 77% | damp 81% | damp 77% |
| Rain | dry 29mm | dry 22mm | dry 24mm | dry 3mm | dry 50mm | dry 20mm | dry 45mm | dry 22mm | dry 44mm | dry 45mm | dry 36mm | dry 27mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 87% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 76% | pockets 16% | cloudy 71% | pockets 41% | pockets 45% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 86% | overcast 96% | overcast 94% |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Remote workers | 333 people | 343 people | 343 people | 320 people | 486 people | 400 people | 600 people | 600 people | 514 people | 275 people | 371 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 13✈️32min€812 / mo23MbpsI absolutely love living in this city. It's very clean, safe and things generally always work! This is something I miss when I travel to other cities in Europe and rest of the world. Also co-working spaces are growing tons. Though night life might be pretty "boring", it truly is what you make it. Get to know other expats and friends through meetups or friend of a friend, and you'll have an awesome time here!
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 8✈️18min€1,740 / mo42MbpsI lived in Central Warsaw on and off for about 1 year pre and post-pandemic. Central Warsaw is the "New York of Eastern Europe". Pros: - Very convenient, safe and clean. - Lots of modern, futuristic buildings. Easy to find nice apartments. - Very bike-able. - Not too expensive. - Lots of coworking spaces. - Some startup culture and quite a few meetups (pre-pandemic). - Polish women are beautiful. - Interesting history. Cons: - Not much of a nomad scene. - Coworking spaces have a rather corpor
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 44✈️45min€1,551 / mo23MbpsI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°AQI 25✈️1h€1,320 / mo37MbpsSpent a month in Belarus this July - we have some good friends there we work with so it was an excellent time. Some good restaurants. People are extremely friendly, just gotta adapt to the culture a bit. Most seemed to be very interested in the fact that I was American. Felt kind of like the country is just starting to open up and it will be of more international interest in the upcoming 5 - 10 years. English is spoken in Minsk but probably less then in ukraine (my only other former soviet
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 13✈️32min€812 / mo23MbpsIt's very fun and green city in summer and quite dark and cold during winter time. Old town is beautiful and cozy, fast internet, few coworking spots.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 13✈️21min€1,836 / mo🌇 Also went here102 peopleI lived in Tallinn for four months. It's a great city overall. Life quality is excellent with transportations and everything else working excellently. I loved the fact that you can travel to other countries easily and inexpensively (Russia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, etc.). At the same time, I think the city gets monotonous fast compared to other places where I lived in a similar size. Estonian people don't appear to be very active. It's understandable because most of them are hard-working and out
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 67°AQI 24✈️22min€2,031 / mo🌇 Also went here115 peopleA lot more things to do there on Summer than on Winter, even though the city is beautiful both seasons. Wouldn't recommend going there in the beginning of spring or late autumn since it'd be mostly rainy and cold. On Summer I recommend just walking around the city and checking out all the architecture and drinking beer on the beach of Hietalahti or taking a ferry to Suomenlinna and having a picnic day there. Linnanmäki amusement park is also nice if you are traveling with children. On Winter I
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 16✈️39min€1,415 / mo🌇 Also went here72 peopleI lived in Central Warsaw on and off for about 1 year pre and post-pandemic. Central Warsaw is the "New York of Eastern Europe". Pros: - Very convenient, safe and clean. - Lots of modern, futuristic buildings. Easy to find nice apartments. - Very bike-able. - Not too expensive. - Lots of coworking spaces. - Some startup culture and quite a few meetups (pre-pandemic). - Polish women are beautiful. - Interesting history. Cons: - Not much of a nomad scene. - Coworking spaces have a rather corpor
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 44✈️45min€1,551 / mo🌇 Also went here72 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 14✈️1h€2,620 / mo🌇 Also went here101 peopleI visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 21✈️1h€1,920 / mo🌇 Also went here96 peopleVienna is nice if you're a tourist and want to see beautiful old architecture. And I guess it's nice if you want to live here for a long time, since it's quite safe and clean. But it's borderline impossible to live and work here short-term as a nomad. There's no good cafes to work from, the coworkings here are of extremely mediocre to bad quality here. Except for greaaaat Asian food, other food is difficult to get, there's either affordable takeaway fast food or expensive in-door fancy dining re
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 17✈️1h€2,405 / mo🌇 Also went here78 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 29° 85°AQI 25✈️1h€1,320 / mo🌇 Also went here79 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 24✈️2h€4,138 / mo🌇 Also went here93 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 38✈️2h€3,630 / mo🌇 Also went here113 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 27✈️2h€3,413 / mo🌇 Also went here82 peopleI spent one year in Istanbul and it's absolutely amazing. The city is really safe, I went back home really late during the night, walking, without any problem. Parties are really fun and there are all kinds of spots to have fun (bars, nightclubs, restaurants...). The city has a lot of cafés to work at and most of them have free and reliable wifi. Definitely recommend!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 39° 102° 33° 91°🥵AQI 19✈️2h€934 / mo🌇 Also went here78 peopleEven if the city is kind of on the decline, it still is awesome. Perfect weather all year, amazing food, vibrant local & expat community.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 20✈️3h€2,861 / mo🌇 Also went here100 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 34✈️11h€1,135 / mo🌇 Also went here72 people
