⭐️ Total score | 2.95/5 (Rank #240) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🙂 Okay: $2,974 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 38Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Freezing : -15°C5°F (feels -22°C-8°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 74% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 13 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 21 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: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Okay |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Good |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 38 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 -15°C 5°F + 💦 Damp (74%) = feels -22°C -8°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 13 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 21.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Denny's |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Syracuse CoWorks |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 45% 👱♀️ 55% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 75% 👱♀️ 25% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American Airlines |
🏥 Best hospital | Upstate University Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,974 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,074 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,035 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,439 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,463 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,800 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,200 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $69 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $59 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $264 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $12 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ 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
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 30-1° freezing | 21-6° freezing | 394° cold | 5412° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 8831° hot | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 436° cold | 362° cold |
Real | 341° very cold | 27-3° freezing | 436° very cold | 5412° cool | 6317° cool | 7725° warm | 7524° warm | 8127° warm | 7222° mild | 6418° cool | 457° cold | 394° very cold |
Humidity | damp 72% | nice 68% | nice 59% | nice 64% | nice 66% | nice 71% | nice 88% | sweaty 85% | nice 77% | nice 81% | damp 73% | damp 71% |
Rain | rainy 78mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 55mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 85mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 176mm | rainy 150mm | rainy 107mm | rainy 175mm | rainy 89mm | rainy 85mm |
Cloud | cloudy 89% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 87% |
Air quality | clean 27 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 10 US AQI | clean 7 US AQI | clean 6 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 22 US AQI | clean 20 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 31 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 300 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels -23° -9° -15° 5°AQI 20✈️21min$4,383 / mo19Mbps×Ottawa downtown is full of opioid addicts , mentally ill and homeless. Dirty and smelly - Goto Montreal instead !
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌤 Feels 10° 50° 10° 50°AQI 33✈️8h$5,409 / mo🌇 Also went here6 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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