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| ⭐️ Overall score | 233 reviews |
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| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Taiwan |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 6 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 45°C 113°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 42 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 61 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Taiwan Mobile |
| 💸 100 TWD in USD | USD 3.02 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | TWD 10,000 = USD 302 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Masa Loft |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% 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 | €1,441 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €946 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,693 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €484 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €337 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €131 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €1,024 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €48 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (712 listings) | €1,966 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €64 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty 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 | 7524° warm | 8228° warm | 8228° warm | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 10038° hot | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10038° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° warm | 7524° warm |
| Real | 7524° warm | 8027° warm | 7926° warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm | 7524° warm |
| Humidity | nice 68% | nice 66% | nice 69% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 81% | sweaty 71% | nice 66% | nice 64% | nice 68% |
| Rain | dry 10mm | dry 12mm | dry 45mm | dry 44mm | rainy 127mm | rainy 219mm | rainy 146mm | rainy 213mm | rainy 74mm | dry 13mm | dry 2mm | dry 39mm |
| Cloud | pockets 38% | pockets 20% | pockets 49% | pockets 36% | cloudy 83% | cloudy 88% | overcast 91% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 56% | pockets 36% | pockets 28% | pockets 30% |
| 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 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 333 people | 500 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 300 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 31° 88°🥵AQI 34✈️4h€1,089 / mo🌇 Also went here12 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
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 30✈️13h€3,653 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people
