| 🌍 Region | Oceania | |
| 🚩 Country | Australia | |
| ⏱ Avg. trip length | 13 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed | 12 MBPS | |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌥 17°C62.5°F + 💦 Not humid (48%) + 💨 10km/h = Feels like 17°C63°F | |
| 💨 Air quality | 👍 44 µg/m3 | |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Optus | |
| 💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 7.27 | |
| 🏧 ATM take out: AUD 100 | USD 73 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) | |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Fishburners | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | MCA Café | |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Cafe Hernandez | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable | |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 3,857,900 visitors | |
| 📸 Tourists now | 73,936 tourists | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 4,400,000 people | |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 97 👨 / 100 👩 103 👩 / 100 👨 | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Kogan | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Gumtree | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | JetStar | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Qantas | |
| 🏥 Best hospital | East Sydney Private Hospital | |
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| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $4,372 / month AUD 6,014 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,860 / month AUD 3,934 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $7,297 / month AUD 10,038 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $2,085 / month AUD 2,868 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,138 / month AUD 2,941 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $291 / month AUD 400 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $3,217 / month AUD 4,425 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $151 / night AUD 207 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (801 listings) | $2,379 / month AUD 3,272 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $78 / night AUD 107 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $14.54 AUD 20.00 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1.82 AUD 2.50 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5.45 AUD 7.50 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $3.63 AUD 5.00 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $9,580 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $27,512 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $91,425 |
Based on Sydney's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
Nomad-ed here for a month. A totally ok place if you have the budget for it. Coworking spaces are good, 4g everywhere, transportation is effective. Lots of things to do. I was able to find friends. Lots of international people, very few digital nomads. If you're there, consider not renting in the center (as it gets expensive fast) and being creative with places to eat to find cheap options. Be prepared to use cash unless you live in a luxury.
Nomaded here for a month Aug-Sep 2018. It's perfectly ready for digital nomads. I won't go into details about why Tokyo is a great place to travel to, you know that. For nomads: there are many coworking spaces, especially in Ginza area (personally I recommend Ginza Hub or Co-Edu or Yahoo Lodge which is actually a free coworking space). Almost every place I've checked has daily membership options too. Starbucks is almost everywhere and locals work in cafes all the time. You can also get a very decent 4g sim as a foreigner from Mobal. The prices are okay-ish, Paris or Singapore level. Many people don't speak English, but that wasn't a problem for me at all: people are friendly and trying to help even when I didn't ask them. If you're feeling lonely, there are numerous international meetups happening every single day. I didn't notice any hostility from locals towards me, only curiosity; made some friends. The situation is different if you want to immigrate to Japan, but we're not talking about it here, right? I'd definitely recommend Tokyo for digital nomads!
What started out as a fishing village with just a few shacks on the beach became a surfer's hotspot around 2005. Surfers would stay in Seminyak and drive north to Canggu's Echo Beach to catch waves. Around 2008, there was the first remote working nomads arriving. Mostly Eastern European and Russian programmers who'd work from Canggu's then few cafes. After the digital nomad explosion of 2014, many nomads sprawled to Bali and settled down in Ubud. Meanwhile in Canggu, the first coworking space there opened called Salty Volt. It didn't manage to attract many people though and finally closed down. Canggu just wasn't ready yet, with only a few cafes and restaurants, and well, people. It took 2 years for Canggu to get back on the radar and when Ubud's coworking spaces and cafes started getting crowded in 2016, people started mentioning Canggu again. In those 2 years, the Salty Volt had now become Dojo, had a new owner, there was now lots of hip cafes, restaurants with European chefs, and the vibe in Canggu was now a more ambitious and fashionable version of Ubud. Where Ubud was for hippies, Canggu was for hipsters. From 2016 on, every year more and more people started to move to Canggu. In late 2017, it became so popular with nomads that for the first time Dojo had to deny new memberships. At the same time, it started becoming a hotspot for Instagrammers, who'd rent luxury villas with flamingo floats and snap pictures. In turn, this started attracting more tourists and have now made Canggu the most popular spot in Bali for nomads. For now, at least.
It's no surprise that Chiang Mai is currently the top city for digital nomads to live and work in. It has the far lowest cost of living in comparison to other cities, including low rent for decent apartments. With a variety of great co-working spaces on the rise, not to mention the number of coffee shops with decent Wi-Fi, you'll be spoilt for choice.
This used to be the hotspot for digital nomads in Bali until 2016 when Canggu took over. It’s more deserted now and mostly filled with Chinese tourbuses, older Euro families and some yoga girls and yogi’s. Not as hip as it once was. Who knows when it will make a revival. I hope.
Nothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM
One of the worst places I have ever lived. Cost of living is horrible and living there makes no sense unless you want to work 100% of your time. Save your time and money and live somewhere where there is actual sense of community. I was able to afford it there, but it still didn't made any sense.
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