⭐️ Total score | 2.46/5 (Rank #1009) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,020 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 24Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 2°C36°F (feels 0°C0°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 81% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Good: 54 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Good: 51 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,069 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | France |
⏱ Average trip length | 4 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 2°C 36°F + 💦 Damp (81%) = feels 0°C 0°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 54 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 51 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 109 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Au 5 |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 270,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $36,826 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 44% 👱♀️ 56% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 80% 👱♀️ 20% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | RyanAir |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,020 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,440 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,140 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,469 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,238 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,276 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,040 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $105 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $75 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $361 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $16 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $4 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
☕️ Coffee | $3 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 341° cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 7725° warm | 7323° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 457° cold | 415° cold |
Real | 373° very cold | 4910° cold | 5010° cold | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 7625° warm | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 7021° mild | 5714° cool | 468° cold | 436° very cold |
Humidity | damp 85% | damp 82% | damp 71% | nice 66% | damp 77% | nice 77% | nice 82% | nice 78% | nice 76% | damp 79% | damp 86% | damp 89% |
Rain | rainy 141mm | rainy 53mm | dry 49mm | dry 42mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 127mm | rainy 145mm | rainy 74mm | dry 36mm | rainy 51mm | rainy 62mm | rainy 84mm |
Cloud | overcast 94% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 83% | overcast 91% |
Air quality | okay 54 US AQI | okay 69 US AQI | okay 50 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 54 US AQI | okay 53 US AQI | okay 52 US AQI | clean 39 US AQI | clean 44 US AQI | clean 48 US AQI | okay 56 US AQI | clean 43 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 280 people | 200 people | 257 people | 257 people | 440 people | 257 people | 400 people | 400 people | 229 people | 286 people | 280 people | 556 people |
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Very nice to visit, the architecture, nature... I think that person who wants calm stable life and can make friends and has family can live quite decent life gere. The shops... amazing... The Neckar river and bridges... amazing... I have visited Heidelberg I think three times and I will come back to visit it again... It brings smile on my face.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌤 Feels 2° 36° 3° 38°AQI 53🚕4h$3,716 / mo24Mbps×It's a pretty awesome place and next year will definitely stay for longer. So clean, has amazing people, and great culture
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌫 Feels 1° 34° 2° 35°AQI 21✈️12min$6,954 / mo28Mbps×Very 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels -1° 30° -1° 30°AQI 40✈️17min$7,461 / mo25Mbps×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 59✈️31min$5,674 / mo19Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 8° 46° 9° 49°AQI 50✈️1h$4,856 / mo21Mbps×I've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open✈️23min$4,059 / mo19Mbps×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 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 171😷✈️2h$3,818 / mo9Mbps×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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety greatTap to open✈️23min$4,059 / mo🌇 Also went here63 people×Super expensive city, with some nice tourist attractions. Wouldn't recommend staying here for a longer time as price levels are almost Parisienne. Also, you can easily see all the good spots within 3 days or so. Pros: - nice tourist attractions (quite a couple of them) - many food options - people are open & friendly Cons: - hella expensive - limited vegan food options - you should at least understand some Dutch or French to survive here
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open✈️48min$3,746 / mo🌇 Also went here76 people×Extremely boring and uppity. Like others say, how on earth does everything close at 8pm? Even restaurants close their kitchen around 9pm ON WEEKENDS. The people really have this "arrogant, uppity" vibe that makes you want to leave ASAP. Yes, architecture is incredible. It's walkable, transportation works, etc. Incredibly expensive. I see no reason why would anyone choose Vienna to Budapest or Prague as their base. Good for 2-3 days trip, nothing else.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open✈️51min$4,737 / mo🌇 Also went here52 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.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 2✈️2h$3,443 / mo🌇 Also went here72 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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