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| ⭐️ Total score | 32 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 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) | 22 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 31°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (74%) = feels 39°C 102°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 72 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 61 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 TWD in USD | USD 3.14 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TWD 10,000 = USD 314 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Masa Loft |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍15% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,900,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $24,577 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 90% 👱♀️ 10% |
| 🏞 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 | $2,240 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,638 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,231 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $923 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $785 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,425 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $706 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $37 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $80 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $234 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $7 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Very safe
✅ 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
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ People don't speak English well
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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 | 333 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 26° 78°🥵AQI 70✈️2h$1,113 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleI liked Ho Chi Minh City a lot. It has all of the convivences one could expect from the city except for an MRT system which as of September 2022, they are in the middle of building one anyway. Things are affordable although I have noticed a tamer street food scene compared to other places in Vietnam like Hanoi. Seems to be making more room for higher end dining but affordability is still easy. HCMC without a doubt has some great nightlife, so party animals are going to be very happy here. I am s
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 65✈️3h$1,327 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 50✈️3h$3,898 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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 34° 93° 28° 82°🥵AQI 10✈️3h$1,171 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleBangkok is a really nice city. I lived 2 weeks in Bangkok and it was a good trip ! People are very nice, smiling and the cost is affordable. Some beautifuls temple, gardens, market etc. Chinatown is a place to visit, and Bangkok is globally clean !
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 85°🥵AQI 50✈️3h$1,883 / mo🌇 Also went here36 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 29° 84° 27° 81°AQI 53✈️3h$3,717 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 62✈️4h$1,635 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 38✈️4h$4,954 / mo🌇 Also went here30 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 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 58✈️5h$1,971 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleOverpriced and overhyped. Back in 2017 when Canggu got the lead on a site like this, landprices went 10x. Then came the covid situation and now the Balinese like to earn their loses over the last 2 years back in 1 day, which was yesterday. Rape tourism was mentioned not once. In a review below the diversity of restaurants is mentioned and how good the food is, maybe this person was on a holiday for a few weeks and didn't have to cook and didn't eat for months, but the fact remains - Bali is an
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