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| ⭐️ Overall score | 201 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Latin America |
| 🚩 Country | Sint Maarten |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 2 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 29°C 84°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 36°C 97°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 6 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Caribserve |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | La Sucriere |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | The PWR Agency |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 34,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $28,352 / year |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air France |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Center Louis Constant Fleming |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,429 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,669 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $4,393 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,255 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $900 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $458 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,995 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $140 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (84 listings) | $4,996 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $164 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $10 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Real | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8228° very warm |
| Humidity | nice 63% | nice 64% | nice 63% | nice 63% | nice 67% | nice 68% | nice 66% | nice 68% | nice 66% | nice 64% | nice 65% | nice 66% |
| Rain | dry 15mm | dry 17mm | dry 8mm | dry 10mm | dry 28mm | rainy 142mm | rainy 50mm | dry 49mm | rainy 65mm | dry 46mm | dry 42mm | rainy 51mm |
| Cloud | pockets 22% | pockets 23% | pockets 14% | pockets 19% | cloudy 52% | pockets 35% | pockets 20% | pockets 27% | pockets 45% | pockets 27% | pockets 25% | pockets 30% |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 300 people | 200 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 62°AQI 18✈️8h$5,659 / mo68MbpsVery luxurious yet has some parts of the city that are charming and have gothic architecture. A lot of tourists and people from Balkans who work in region. Pretty expensive. If you are not very rich just visit it and choose to stay in some other, more modest german city. In my opinion Frankfurt is city nr 3 in Germany after Berlin and Munich and I have travelled through much of Germany. Hamburg and Cologne are somewhere with the Frankfurt, but Frankfurt is more luxurious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 20° 68°AQI 29✈️10h$2,955 / mo22MbpsMuch nicer than people would have you think. Too many locals seem to be under the impression that it's the busiest, most expensive city in the world. These people clearly haven't travelled much. Not saying it's cheap, but for a big city in an English speaking country it's about what you'd expect, if not cheaper. Pros: - Hot humid summers, gorgeous orange autumns, cold snowy winters. If you like distinct seasons this is a great place to be. Winter is about 4-5 months, from Nov-Mar. Ignore every
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 24✈️3h$2,962 / mo42MbpsPros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 27° 81°AQI 31✈️8h$2,065 / mo30MbpsI have lived in Madison for many years and have mixed feelings about it. It is a very clean and green city, and hospitable to bicyclists. There are many parks and nature centers and an abundance of restaurants serving all varieties of cuisine. There is quite a bit to do here, and Madison is also close enough to Milwaukee for day trips to explore. I love the farmers markets and feel very spoiled to have access to so many locales from which to buy organic food (and vegan, paleo, etc.). What I
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 46✈️7h$1,620 / mo🌇 Also went here9 peoplePros: -Great airport for connections to Africa and South America. -Has some really beautiful views. -Great fruit and fish. -Native Portuguese people are generally friendly and helpful. -Wonderful moderate climate (better than Spain) Cons: -The dirtiest major city I've seen in Europe. Filthy buildings and dog crap everywhere. -Unsafe - most other women I spoke to said they feel unsafe walking alone here (being leered at, whistled at and followed by the mostly immigrant men is a common occurrenc
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 27° 81°AQI 31✈️8h$2,065 / mo🌇 Also went here14 peopleI have been living in Porto since September. Portugal is currently in a hard covid lockdown so Porto is not at its best. But in better times the city is amazing. Beautiful, right near the beach, with excellent air and rail connectivity. English is widely spoken and the accommodations for visitors are diverse and excellent. Restaurants are also diverse and excellent. Prices for those used to northern Europe or USA will seem low. December, January are very rainy and can get cold, down to nearly 0
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 26✈️10h$3,005 / mo🌇 Also went here10 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 20° 68° 19° 67°AQI 34✈️10h$2,192 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleVienna is nice if you're a tourist and want to see beautiful old architecture. And I guess it's nice if you want to live here for a long time, since it's quite safe and clean. But it's borderline impossible to live and work here short-term as a nomad. There's no good cafes to work from, the coworkings here are of extremely mediocre to bad quality here. Except for greaaaat Asian food, other food is difficult to get, there's either affordable takeaway fast food or expensive in-door fancy dining re
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 70✈️10h$2,815 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people
