⭐️ Total score | 2.38/5 (Rank #1100) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,089 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 14Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 30°C87°F (feels 35°C95°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 70% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 70 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $395 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Healthcare* | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Belize |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 14 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 30°C 87°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 35°C 95°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 70 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115 230V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 10 BZD in USD | USD 4.96 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BZD 1,000 = USD 496 |
☕️ Best coffee place | The Belize Coffee Co |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 18,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,745 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Point2Homes |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,089 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,413 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,499 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,571 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,264 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,560 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,412 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $59 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $84 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 8630° warm | 9133° hot | 9937° hot | 10842° scorching | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 8831° hot | 9032° hot |
Real | 7926° warm | 8329° very warm | 8630° very warm | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm |
Humidity | nice 88% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 83% |
Rain | rainy 87mm | rainy 64mm | dry 47mm | dry 40mm | rainy 112mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 124mm | rainy 128mm | rainy 170mm | rainy 141mm | rainy 107mm | rainy 70mm |
Cloud | cloudy 72% | pockets 46% | pockets 38% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 50% |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 0 people | 400 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 600 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 400 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌤 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 129😷✈️23min$3,359 / mo4Mbps×Was here for less than a week and got jumped at gunpoint at 2pm, broad daylight in front of police and traffic. No one did anything, gangs seem the run the place. I've travelled to dozens of places and have lived in Mexico for >6mo, Guatemala is a whole different caliber of dangerous. Maybe I was just unlucky?
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 53✈️26min$1,435 / mo4Mbps×Antigua is amazing, very safe and lots of amazing food to eat out at. Internet at the Airbnb was laggy at times, but some places might have better connections.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 119😷✈️30min$2,137 / mo24Mbps×Stayed for 5 days in Tulum in March 2023, here are a few things to consider. -The Pros are: there a ton of very solid accommodations for ~$50 per night on a short term basis (1BR apartment, pool, etc.). You can get it down even further with a longer term commitment. It feels like there is a growing nomad community, but it's more of NYC/LA types than down to earth vagabonds. There are a bunch of great restaurants that cater to the health conscious and gyms to check out. There are some very posh
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety very badTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 53✈️27min$1,802 / mo3Mbps×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 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 51°AQI 24✈️13h$4,553 / mo20Mbps×There is absolutely no reason to stay in Belize City. You're just going to get ripped off by taxis and restaurants (always do the math on your bill). You come to Belize to go to the islands or ruins, not Belize City.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety badTap to open🌤 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84°AQI 70✈️30min$3,914 / mo🌇 Also went here5 people×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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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 14° 57° 15° 59°AQI 51✈️4h$4,968 / mo🌇 Also went here5 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 29✈️5h$6,322 / mo🌇 Also went here7 people×Been to 29 cities in 6 months and I can say Rio is AMAZING. However not safe at all, by my first week I knew a total of 10 people that got robbed (3 groups). I've been living here for almost 1 month recharging from fast traveling and haven't been robbed.
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