⭐️ Total score | 3.53/5 (Rank #154) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Good |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,969 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 21Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Hot: 29°C85°F (feels 34°C93°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 79% |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 49 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Good |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | High: $2,386 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* | Great |
🧳 Lost luggage* | Great |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Great |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Good |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Puerto Rico |
🗓️ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 21 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 49 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💻 Best coworking space | Piloto151 |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 360,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $28,636 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 42% 👱♀️ 58% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 76% 👱♀️ 24% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Clasificados |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | JetBlue |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,969 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,542 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,604 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,601 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,349 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,590 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,330 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $110 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $85 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $360 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $16 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $10,750 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $12 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,352 |
💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $30,278 |
💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $71,127 |
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
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Feels | 7926° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 8228° warm | 8127° warm |
Real | 7926° warm | 8027° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm |
Humidity | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 40% | nice 41% | nice 42% | nice 42% | nice 42% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 41% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | dry 50mm | dry 40mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 111mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 110mm | rainy 114mm | rainy 147mm | rainy 138mm | rainy 113mm | rainy 61mm |
Cloud | pockets 28% | pockets 23% | pockets 22% | pockets 29% | pockets 29% | pockets 45% | pockets 33% | pockets 32% | pockets 29% | pockets 28% | pockets 26% | pockets 28% |
Air quality | okay 52 US AQI | clean 13 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 47 US AQI | okay 76 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
Remote workers | 723 people | 960 people | 754 people | 333 people | 486 people | 400 people | 491 people | 525 people | 480 people | 327 people | 569 people | 667 people |
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As a Dominican that lived over 25 years in Sto Dgo I have to say most of the comments are accurate. HOWEVER, Santo Domingo is the capital of the country. Just like most Capitals in Latin America (Mexico City being the exception), it's not worth visiting much time. If you want to experience what the Dominican Republic has to offer (Beaches, Nature, Friendly Locals) as a nomad I would recommend Las Terrenas or Cabarete.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 85°🥵✈️33min$1,910 / mo18Mbps×Jarabacoa is an amazing town. It has a lot of local tourism from Dominicans so there are a lot of excursions like horseback riding, rafting, excursions, waterfalls, parasailing and more. Not as humid as other places in DR. Wouldnt stay here more than 2 weeks unless you are really into outdoorish mountains
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°✈️39min$3,062 / mo16Mbps×Hello to everyone ! 🤟 I'm Seb Fourault , entrepreneur and digital nomad who has made Guadeloupe my place of life, as well as my entrepreneurial playground. I want to share with you my experience and my discoveries on this magnificent island, which I see as a true paradise for all entrepreneurs and digital nomads from around the world. Guadeloupe, with its idyllic climate, its rich culture and its strategic proximity to Europe and America, offers an exceptional living and working environmen
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°✈️43min$3,688 / mo12Mbps×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️3h$6,831 / mo56Mbps×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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵✈️2h$5,212 / mo93Mbps×Was great when I visited in 2019, unfortunately upon returning, things have gotten worse. Locals are tired of gentrification and over tourism, and the vibe is not the same. It has attracted a lot of the wrong type of foreigners.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 80😷✈️2h$1,670 / mo46Mbps×Boston is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is the capital of the state, the largest city in New England, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The city proper is home to about 617,900 people, making it the largest city in New England and the 26th largest in the United States.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 79°AQI 56😷✈️4h$6,833 / mo221Mbps×Panama City very interesting and slept on. Probably the most developed major city in Latin America with the strongest technology infrastructure which makes it very appealing for digital nomads. Also a lot of international business coming through here so there can definitely be good networking opportunities. It’s also super safe compared to other South American hotspots like Medellin however it is significantly more expensive. I would say prices here are slightly less expensive than southern s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵✈️2h$2,516 / mo30Mbps×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°✈️5h$1,965 / mo58Mbps×It's obscenely expensive for low quality service with kinda mean people. Not nice. The regulations and taxes here are insane too. You pay a neighbourhood tax, district tax, city tax, county tax and then state tax on every payment you make! The traffic here is insane too. And just getting from place to place is difficult because city is so gigantic. We talked to our hotel's manager here and he struggles a lot with the insane amount of rules California tells him to follow. It makes it hard to st
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 60😷✈️7h$5,280 / mo117Mbps×Unfortunately just a hard place to Nomad. Maybe ~10 years ago. Needless to say; accommodation is super high and you don't get much. Lots of driving culture. Surprisingly few gyms; most of which expensive and/or super crowded. Not very easy to meet people per sprawl/driving culture. The locals keep pretty insulated amongst each other. WiFi/Internet great. Food OK if you like Mexican and/or tex-mex. Beaches are great and surfing is pretty good, but it gets very crowded in desirable months with lot
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️7h$5,534 / mo105Mbps×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 25✈️9h$5,699 / mo29Mbps×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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵✈️2h$5,212 / mo🌇 Also went here87 people×Was great when I visited in 2019, unfortunately upon returning, things have gotten worse. Locals are tired of gentrification and over tourism, and the vibe is not the same. It has attracted a lot of the wrong type of foreigners.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety very badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 80😷✈️2h$1,670 / mo🌇 Also went here92 people×New York is cool. I’ve visited multiple times to see my family throughout my life, and recently came back from my first post-COVID trip there. Yes, it’s very expensive — but there is no city on earth that’s more captivating in my opinion. I used to think that New Yorkers were smug by claiming that NYC was better than everywhere else, but now I totally get it lol. My personal favourite neighbourhood is the Upper East Side, which is where you’ll find the coveted Museum Mile. But I also
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 78°✈️3h$6,831 / mo🌇 Also went here116 people×Love it! Don't expect them to speak English, that is NOT their native language. If you're going to go, learn some Spanish and respect their culture. No gentrification in Mexico, please.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety badTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 71°✈️5h$1,965 / mo🌇 Also went here99 people×It's obscenely expensive for low quality service with kinda mean people. Not nice. The regulations and taxes here are insane too. You pay a neighbourhood tax, district tax, city tax, county tax and then state tax on every payment you make! The traffic here is insane too. And just getting from place to place is difficult because city is so gigantic. We talked to our hotel's manager here and he struggles a lot with the insane amount of rules California tells him to follow. It makes it hard to st
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 32° 90° 29° 83°AQI 60😷✈️7h$5,280 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×I just came back after 12 years, last time I lived in SF for 3 months in 2012. Back then it was a walkable and clean and fun, pretty safe city. The only place back then that you'd avoid was the Tenderloin. There was homeless but they actually weren't aggressive. There wasn't much robberies either. San Francisco in 2024 is very different, as you've probably seen from social media. The homeless problem has grown a lot since then, and they're not just clustered in the Tenderloin, they're all over
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°✈️8h$6,318 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Hello i am agreed with previous comment . I was very passionate about Portugal pend here two and half years even more just living living here , not travel abroad . So my opinion its very beautiful country people are also very nice . Ideally if you working abroad . British and French expats are here . Nepal people hard workers and afro colonies people who came from Mozambique . Its totally fine no racism and totally solidarity . But , if you searching housing , and move in city of course , it wi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 28° 82° 26° 80°AQI 29✈️8h$3,868 / mo🌇 Also went here99 people×As a local living in Buenos Aires, renting a one bedroom apartment by myself, working from home and being very frugal (I don't dine out, I don't get take-out, I don't travel), I spend around USD 800 a month. If I buy myself something like a new bag or pair of jeans that number goes up by at least USD 100 (current value of USD 1 is ARS 1400). The cost of living for a local is severely outdated. It's more like the cost of living for an expat now.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°✈️8h$1,540 / mo🌇 Also went here80 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 25✈️9h$5,699 / mo🌇 Also went here97 people×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85°AQI 34✈️9h$4,593 / mo🌇 Also went here105 people×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 55😷✈️9h$5,433 / mo🌇 Also went here109 people×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 27✈️9h$5,660 / mo🌇 Also went here79 people×Berlin used to be nomad base in Europe... but it's not the same anymore. The 'pandemic' changed many things -- the cost of course, but also the culture -- the freedom and liberty have been contained. The police presence and size of the state have grown -- definitely doesn't feel so relaxed anymore. It's also important to note here -- there is limited ambition. Most are looking for an easy, fun and peaceful life -- which is great, but if you are building something or running a business it can fee
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️10h$3,827 / mo🌇 Also went here71 people×A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 32° 89°🥵✈️10h$4,881 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 60😷✈️22h$1,353 / mo🌇 Also went here78 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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