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| ⭐️ Total score | 239 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Latvia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 4 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 19 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 10°C 50°F + 💦 Damp (80%) = feels 9°C 48°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 6 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 97 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Bite |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 116 |
| 💳 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 | $2,068 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,233 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,496 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $713 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $455 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $86 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,187 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $56 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (106 listings) | $1,237 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $41 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $10 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.96 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ 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
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ 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 | 367 people | 429 people | 325 people | 320 people | 514 people | 422 people | 560 people | 660 people | 550 people | 289 people | 400 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 19✈️18min$2,474 / mo37MbpsLiving here for a couple of years already. Cost of living information is very accurate, even surprised me :D But I can't agree with couple Cons. As mentioned in the older review, pretty much everyone speaks english, only some older folks (40+) doesn't. It's true that LGBT community isn't very popular, but I would not say that it's hostile. Lithuanians indeed are a bit closed in, but that's only till the first drink, then everyone becomes besties. If you struggle with making friends visit "Dzem P
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 82😷✈️18min$2,035 / mo44Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 65✈️19min$2,228 / mo39MbpsNothing to amazing about this city. It is cheaper and the locals can be friendly out of curiosity but most European cities are like this way. As always there is the language barrier but besides that it is just your average Baltic European city with its unique cuisine. Not too bad not too amazing.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 77😷✈️21min$2,134 / mo24MbpsI 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 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 19✈️22min$2,117 / mo32MbpsKaliningrad is great city! Most of "scores" and "Pros and Cons" are not true. Because of Baltic Sea, it's quite warm here in winter, not much of snow. But yes, humidity is quite high. Cannabis is illegal! Be attentive! People are tolerant, no matter who you are if you have good maneers.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 65✈️27min$2,193 / mo18MbpsA 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 53✈️29min$3,700 / mo31Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 39✈️29min$5,079 / mo32Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 20✈️32min$3,344 / mo32MbpsSpent 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 6° 43° 8° 46°AQI 77😷✈️32min$1,028 / mo20MbpsI 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!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 13✈️35min$3,503 / mo35MbpsGdansk is a city in northern Poland and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, with a population of 464,113 (December 2013). It is the 16th most populous city in the European Union, with a population of 740,918 (2011). Gdańsk is the largest city of the Kashubian region. It is the historic capital of Gdańsk Pomerania. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River, which drains 60 percent of Poland's territory. A
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 68✈️36min$1,625 / mo26MbpsNothing to amazing about this city. It is cheaper and the locals can be friendly out of curiosity but most European cities are like this way. As always there is the language barrier but besides that it is just your average Baltic European city with its unique cuisine. Not too bad not too amazing.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 77😷✈️21min$2,134 / mo24MbpsI 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 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 19✈️22min$2,117 / mo32MbpsHow 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 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 52✈️2h$4,306 / mo22MbpsCool city with lots of fun places to go out, very nice restaurants and quite an international environment. I went there twice already and in winter it's horribly cold, while in summer it's super hot. Definitely recommend going there in Spring/Autumn. The castle is nice and Danube riverside is great too, you'll get lots of things to do. Can recommend Nomad Traveller's Bar and there daily pubcrawl! Also, to all fellow vegans, the food scene is great. Lot's of places order vegan options and if you
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 12° 54°AQI 63✈️1h$1,507 / mo40MbpsLived in Moscow for a year in 2019. I worked in the mornings and late evenings working in multiple locations across the city (mainly centre) and travelled via metro/walked. Never had safety concerns. M29yo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 4° 39° 6° 42°AQI 32✈️1h$2,114 / mo17MbpsA 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 53✈️29min$3,700 / mo31MbpsLove this city, very romantic and cool in the summer. but it is difficult to find a nice airbnb. it is too much small or too expensive for the quality. you will def have great time here. but unfortunately, I had problem to make friends here. some how, It seemed the locals were not quite interested in having communication or making forein friends even in the co-working space. I don't think this is because of the language barrier but...I cant explain this well. anyway, the city is great to stay f
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 5° 41° 7° 45°AQI 54✈️39min$1,702 / mo15MbpsI 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!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 13✈️35min$3,503 / mo35Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 11° 51°AQI 65✈️19min$2,228 / mo39MbpsLiving here for a couple of years already. Cost of living information is very accurate, even surprised me :D But I can't agree with couple Cons. As mentioned in the older review, pretty much everyone speaks english, only some older folks (40+) doesn't. It's true that LGBT community isn't very popular, but I would not say that it's hostile. Lithuanians indeed are a bit closed in, but that's only till the first drink, then everyone becomes besties. If you struggle with making friends visit "Dzem P
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 82😷✈️18min$2,035 / mo44MbpsI 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 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 65✈️45min$1,862 / mo30MbpsParis 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 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 37✈️2h$3,914 / mo30MbpsNothing to amazing about this city. It is cheaper and the locals can be friendly out of curiosity but most European cities are like this way. As always there is the language barrier but besides that it is just your average Baltic European city with its unique cuisine. Not too bad not too amazing.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 77😷✈️21min$2,134 / mo🌇 Also went here115 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 8° 46° 10° 50°AQI 19✈️22min$2,117 / mo🌇 Also went here127 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 53✈️29min$3,700 / mo🌇 Also went here101 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 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 51✈️1h$3,105 / mo🌇 Also went here109 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 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 57✈️1h$2,180 / mo🌇 Also went here105 peoplePros: * Very clean - lots of hand sanitisation places and people wear masks + streets are clean * Great, cheap public transport * Very beautiful city and good parks * Pretty good Italian and asian food Cons: * Coffee shops seem to have mostly gone and been replaced with lots of Starbucks and other chains. * Food / drinks is very expensive in most parts - Local beer is quite cheap though * Barely any night life to speak of - everything closes at 11pm Other Info: COVID restrictions are very stri
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 70✈️1h$2,782 / mo🌇 Also went here82 peopleCool city with lots of fun places to go out, very nice restaurants and quite an international environment. I went there twice already and in winter it's horribly cold, while in summer it's super hot. Definitely recommend going there in Spring/Autumn. The castle is nice and Danube riverside is great too, you'll get lots of things to do. Can recommend Nomad Traveller's Bar and there daily pubcrawl! Also, to all fellow vegans, the food scene is great. Lot's of places order vegan options and if you
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 12° 54°AQI 63✈️1h$1,507 / mo🌇 Also went here101 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 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 17✈️2h$4,691 / mo🌇 Also went here99 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 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 52✈️2h$4,306 / mo🌇 Also went here122 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 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 37✈️2h$3,914 / mo🌇 Also went here90 peopleSpent 4 months in Istanbul. Lovely city. Lots of things to do, cafes to work from, historical sites and nice parks. Might be chaotic at times but its part of its charm. Pros: Everything is really cheap from food, groceries, clothes, etc. The only unusually pricey thing is alcohol. Rent prices are skyrocketing too I found Turkish people to be really nice. Some of them went out the extra mile to help me out with mundane things. The tea culture and community feeling of every street is awesome too
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 18✈️2h$998 / mo🌇 Also went here84 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 42✈️2h$4,043 / mo🌇 Also went here80 peopleI wanted to like Barcelona but the rampant robberies just really caste a dark cloud over my 6 weeks there. Usually it is non-violent pick pocketing, but there are cases where it is much uglier than that.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 30✈️3h$3,016 / mo🌇 Also went here108 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°AQI 101😷✈️9h$5,021 / mo🌇 Also went here80 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 39° 102° 31° 88°🥵AQI 87😷✈️11h$1,355 / mo🌇 Also went here80 people
