⭐️ Total score | 3.11/5 (Rank #624) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,444 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 20°C67°F (feels 21°C70°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 77% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 15 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 34 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Bad |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Very bad |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $721 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Good |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Okay |
👩 Female friendly | Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Brazil |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 20°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (77%) = feels 21°C 70°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 15 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 34.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V230V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Vivo |
💸 10 BRL in USD | USD 1.91 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BRL 1,000 = USD 191 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Aroma Cafe |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 530,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,649 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Mercado Livre |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | TAM |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | TAM |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,444 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $630 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,224 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $350 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $210 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $134 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,606 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $75 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 43 listings) | $920 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $30 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ High quality of education
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Democratic
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8831° hot | 7323° mild | 8228° warm | 7725° warm |
Real | 8228° very warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 7524° warm | 7323° mild | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 7323° mild | 8228° very warm | 7323° mild | 7926° warm | 7725° warm |
Humidity | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 83% | nice 81% | nice 77% | nice 79% | nice 65% | nice 71% | sweaty 71% | nice 90% | nice 77% | nice 83% |
Rain | rainy 346mm | rainy 235mm | rainy 194mm | dry 45mm | dry 31mm | dry 21mm | dry 16mm | dry 21mm | dry 32mm | rainy 207mm | rainy 120mm | rainy 180mm |
Cloud | overcast 92% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 64% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 64% | pockets 33% | cloudy 57% | pockets 47% | overcast 95% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 75% |
Air quality | clean 33 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 33 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 35 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI |
Sun | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌤 Feels 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 82😷🚕3h$1,365 / mo6Mbps×Great city if you want a quieter place, but close enough to São Paulo. If you live near the bus terminal, you can get a bus every 30 min to são paulo. It has some good coworking space if needed. Not as much to do as são paulo, but has some good food places, supermarkets, one good mall. If you live near the main avenue (nove de julho) and close to Jundiaí Shopping / bus terminal, it has some good apartaments to rent, close enough to a good supermarket, the mall, restaurants, public transporta
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety badTap to open🌫 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 30✈️33min$1,082 / mo6Mbps×Lived here three years. On the plus side the people are friendly and the women are beautiful. The urban area is huge but all the action takes place in a fairly small central area. On the minus side, there are very few parks or green spaces. There aren't many attractions or cool things to do in the city. People's leisure time is mostly spent drinking in roadside bars.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun bad👮 Safety badTap to open🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 76😷✈️34min$900 / mo8Mbps×This is a beautiful place with nice sandy beaches. There are plenty of places to go hiking and beaches to go relax at. Even with the pandemic, you can still visit some beaches. You can sometimes find bonfires and parties on Mole Beach. People sometimes rent boats here and take a tour of the other small islands around Florianopolis. Barra do Lagoa is nice if you want to take some surf lessons; the search house (hostel) is a great place to stay. Jurere is more upscale; it's a nice place to get an
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open🌤 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 20✈️44min$1,119 / mo3Mbps×Vitória is a rising city in Brazil. It is an island, capital of the province of Espírito Santo. With a variety of well developed sectors and industries, such as mining, steel, granite, coffee, the city has rising innovation economy lead by companies like Wine and Picpay and hubs such as Findes Lab, Hub Fucape and Base27, connecting startups and investors. Vitória has a unique life quality: In Vitória you can go for a walk on the beach in the morning and in a few minutes, with lo traffic, ar
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety badTap to open☀️ Feels 35° 95° 38° 101°🥵AQI 43✈️13h$3,838 / mo🌇 Also went here3 people×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 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 33° 91° 31° 89°🥵AQI 85😷✈️13h$2,898 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people×Pros: * 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
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