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| ⭐️ Total score | 235 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| ❤️ Liked by members | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Taiwan |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 32°C 90°F + 🥵 Sweaty (79%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 11 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Taiwan Mobile |
| 💸 100 TWD in USD | USD 3.37 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TWD 10,000 = USD 337 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Masa Loft |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍16% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,900,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $24,577 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | PCHome |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | EVA |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,829 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,071 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,888 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $540 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $376 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $146 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,720 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $81 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 496 listings) | $2,254 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $74 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8630° warm | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10440° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° warm | 7524° warm |
| Real | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 7725° warm | 8127° warm | 9032° hot | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm |
| Humidity | nice 71% | nice 71% | nice 71% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 75% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 73% | nice 73% |
| Rain | dry 3mm | dry 15mm | dry 5mm | dry 21mm | rainy 61mm | rainy 540mm | rainy 271mm | rainy 455mm | rainy 155mm | rainy 70mm | dry 10mm | dry 22mm |
| Cloud | pockets 40% | pockets 37% | pockets 29% | pockets 45% | cloudy 64% | overcast 91% | cloudy 81% | cloudy 82% | pockets 50% | cloudy 52% | pockets 45% | pockets 37% |
| Air quality | okay 95 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | okay 96 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | okay 60 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 41 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
| Remote workers | 250 people | 333 people | 467 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 267 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 40° 104° 30° 86°🥵AQI 12✈️20min$1,962 / mo28MbpsDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 24✈️21min$2,081 / mo24MbpsGreat city in Southern Taiwan on a major port. Lots of stuff to do if you like the outdoors. A mountain to climb, a beach to go to, and trains and buses readily available to go to surrounding outdoor activities. Cons: English speaking is not great, but the locals are. And even if you don't speak Mandarin they will do their best to help you. Plenty of English speaking doctors, dentists etc. Most restaurants have a double menu. So it's not that big of a con and there are many classes that will h
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 30° 86°🥵AQI 42✈️3h$2,093 / mo24MbpsNot sure where the last person went in the city for him/her to say that there are zero expats. Throughout my years with Davao, I would bump into at least 20 expats in one night out in just a single area. Davao City is only boring if you don't know where to go, and as someone who lives outside of Davao, I find myself coming back more than five times a year for the people, the culture it has, and how conveniently close it is to beautiful vacation places. You'll love it when you know the gems that
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 47✈️2h$1,075 / mo5Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 21✈️4h$1,419 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 126😷✈️4h$950 / mo3MbpsI 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 45° 113° 32° 89°🥵AQI 53✈️3h$1,262 / mo26MbpsSeattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 21✈️13h$4,858 / mo79MbpsPutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 38✈️4h$1,294 / mo11MbpsHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 32✈️50min$2,401 / mo87MbpsGreat city in Southern Taiwan on a major port. Lots of stuff to do if you like the outdoors. A mountain to climb, a beach to go to, and trains and buses readily available to go to surrounding outdoor activities. Cons: English speaking is not great, but the locals are. And even if you don't speak Mandarin they will do their best to help you. Plenty of English speaking doctors, dentists etc. Most restaurants have a double menu. So it's not that big of a con and there are many classes that will h
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 8🚕1h$1,114 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 44° 111° 32° 90°🥵AQI 24✈️21min$2,081 / mo🌇 Also went here36 peopleHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 32✈️50min$2,401 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 42✈️1h$1,858 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleI do not like Hanoi. I would not recommend it. I would rather go to Mexico city (cleaner and easier to get around). The driving situation is bizarre and scary. Gab app only works with cash, and honestly, most things only work with cash. The streets are dirty and disorganized. People barely speak English here (I found more english speakers in Da Nang, Vietnam). I tried to stay in Truc Bach and it was so dirty and loud that i left to West lake (which is supposed to be one of the nice area). It is
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 46° 115° 32° 90°🥵AQI 57✈️2h$951 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleBeen living here for more than 3 years. Overall I do not recommend it. Its not terrible but overall theres better options in asia. The city is constantly busy, noisy and polluted (air and landscapes). You can hardly go out for breeze of fresh air or to relax and ease your mind. There is not much nature, beach or mountains for you to escape. Traveling is very restriced because people go crazy due to covid. During the lockdown you couldnt even leave your appartment for a walk outside. They trapp
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 43° 109° 31° 87°🥵AQI 57✈️3h$976 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 39° 102° 31° 88°🥵AQI 55✈️3h$2,143 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 38✈️3h$943 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleI 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 45° 113° 32° 89°🥵AQI 53✈️3h$1,262 / mo🌇 Also went here34 peopleTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 30✈️3h$2,910 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79°🥵AQI 38✈️4h$1,294 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 17✈️4h$3,769 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81°🥵AQI 77😷✈️5h$1,376 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleThe places to rent are not very good. Poor design and low quality furniture. You won't find one that comes with a good desk and chair. Most of them don't have a good place to put one even if you bring your own. Hard water is common and unpleasant. Can't walk around due to small roads, traffic, sometimes unfriendly stray dogs. It does have good restaurants, lots of variety from many international cuisines. Not that great for Indonesian food though. Probably better for a short visit rather than
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 77😷✈️5h$1,521 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleHow 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 34✈️13h$5,108 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
