⭐️ Total score | 3.59/5 (Rank #134) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,039 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 5Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Nice: 20°C67°F (feels 20°C68°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 53% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 66 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 61 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🎓 Education level* | Mediocre |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $401 / mo |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍100% liked it 👎0% disliked it |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | Bosnia |
⏱ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 20°C 67°F + 😊 Comfy (53%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 66 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | BH Telecom |
💸 10 BAM in USD | USD 5.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | BAM 1,000 = USD 538 |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👎5% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 530,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $4,808 / year |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 0% 👱♀️ 100% |
⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Pik |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Lufthansa |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Etihad Airways |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,039 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $849 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,628 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $465 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $430 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $161 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,059 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $143 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 192 listings) | $1,507 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $49 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $2 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.36 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 373° cold | 489° cold | 457° cold | 5211° cool | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 8429° warm | 8429° warm | 7222° mild | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 394° cold |
Real | 373° very cold | 489° cold | 457° cold | 5111° cool | 6418° cool | 7222° mild | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 7122° mild | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 394° very cold |
Humidity | damp 71% | nice 66% | damp 71% | nice 69% | nice 66% | nice 69% | nice 65% | nice 57% | nice 62% | damp 72% | damp 74% | damp 74% |
Rain | rainy 162mm | rainy 91mm | rainy 104mm | rainy 92mm | rainy 56mm | dry 49mm | rainy 82mm | dry 41mm | dry 38mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 209mm | rainy 175mm |
Cloud | cloudy 86% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 72% | pockets 43% | pockets 41% | pockets 34% | pockets 45% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 83% | overcast 90% |
Air quality | bad 154 US AQI | bad 119 US AQI | okay 82 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | bad 124 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 320 people | 300 people | 240 people | 280 people | 400 people | 300 people | 425 people | 425 people | 486 people | 300 people | 343 people | 320 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 12✈️23min$1,964 / mo14Mbps×Berlin 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
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 21✈️41min$2,846 / mo🌇 Also went here50 people×I 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 76°AQI 50✈️1h$2,873 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×A great place to be. Excellent price/quality ratio. You can easily find everything needed to work: coworking, sim (you can eg use Airalo). There is a plenty of things to do in the city and around it. Food is dirt cheap and delicious. It can be trashy and sometimes touristy but that didn't cause problems for me.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 19✈️1h$1,104 / mo🌇 Also went here64 people×Berlin 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
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 28° 82° 27° 80°AQI 38✈️1h$4,114 / mo🌇 Also went here70 people×I spent a month here in January. It's beautiful, and there are plenty of touristy things to do, however the city is very expensive. There are plenty of places to shop, which is the main reason why I went. There are also plenty of WeWorks scattered across the city if you need somewhere consistent to work. The people weren't rude to me, but that's because I always greet people in French before asking for help or information, so to avoid rudeness, I'd suggest learning basic greetings and how to ask
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 55✈️2h$4,356 / mo🌇 Also went here52 people×Best city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 52✈️2h$3,821 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×A top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 32✈️2h$5,658 / mo🌇 Also went here51 people×How 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 42✈️2h$4,872 / mo🌇 Also went here61 people×Good: - Great local food - Portuguese people are amazingly friendly - Vibrant DN community. It's like the city has been overtaken by remote workers. You will see everyone working on their laptop everywhere you go. - Amazing views whenever you want; you can just get a beer and climb to one of the viewpoints to see the sunset. Easy and magical. - Super cheap Ubers, easy subway Bad: - Housing prices. I'm not kidding, it's the worst I've ever seen. Ultra overpriced. I guess that's the problem when
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 27✈️3h$2,522 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×I cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 53✈️11h$1,292 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×