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| ⭐️ Total score | 14 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 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 | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Russia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 37 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 21 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ -8°C 18°F + 💦 Damp (86%) = feels -10°C 14°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 3 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100 RUB in USD | USD 1.12 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | RUB 10,000 = USD 112 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 12.50% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Boulanger Coffee House |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 540,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,655 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 43% 👱♀️ 57% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Ozon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Avito |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | UTair Aviation |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Aeroflot |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Partners in Health |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,680 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,123 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,614 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $461 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $591 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,236 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $273 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $28 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $73 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $157 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $6 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $5,054 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $1 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ No democracy
❌ Not very safe
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | -18-28° freezing | -8-22° freezing | 21-6° freezing | 373° cold | 5915° cool | 6418° cool | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 5211° cool | 415° cold | 16-9° freezing | 10-12° freezing |
| Real | -8-22° freezing | 2-17° freezing | 27-3° freezing | 405° very cold | 5915° cool | 6418° cool | 7323° mild | 7222° mild | 5211° cool | 436° very cold | 23-5° freezing | 18-8° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 66% | nice 70% | damp 85% | damp 81% | nice 56% | nice 68% | nice 71% | nice 76% | damp 80% | damp 75% | damp 87% | damp 84% |
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| Rain | dry 35mm | dry 47mm | rainy 51mm | dry 43mm | dry 40mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 58mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 111mm | dry 33mm | rainy 64mm | dry 45mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 89% | overcast 93% | overcast 94% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 65% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 73% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 85% | overcast 97% | overcast 95% |
| Remote workers | 233 people | 400 people | 400 people | 200 people | 333 people | 200 people | 233 people | 229 people | 200 people | 267 people | 300 people | 280 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 2° 36° 5° 40°AQI 30✈️1h$1,400 / mo12Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 154😷✈️2h$1,667 / mo14Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -4° 25° -1° 31°AQI 30✈️2h$1,384 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -4° 25° -1° 30°AQI 30✈️2h$1,446 / mo21MbpsThe people are open, warm and enthusiastic with travelers. Service is brilliant (generally) - much better then Europe. WIFI is poor, drivers have one hand holding their mobile and the other on the horn. Really nice "pace" and the diverse ethnicity get along beautifully. This is NOT BORAT land - Almaty is 2.7 million people.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 5✈️2h$1,433 / mo10Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -24° -11° -17° 1°AQI 95😷✈️2h$1,631 / mo8MbpsMaybe not all the ratings are true , but dont forget you area local and view things differently. people coming from the west will view most of russian cities like that because they compare it to standards back at home
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels -11° 12° -7° 19°AQI 34✈️4h$2,168 / mo🌇 Also went here64 peopleLove this city, very romantic and cool in the summer. but it is difficult to find a nice airbnb. it is too much small or too expensive for the quality. you will def have great time here. but unfortunately, I had problem to make friends here. some how, It seemed the locals were not quite interested in having communication or making forein friends even in the co-working space. I don't think this is because of the language barrier but...I cant explain this well. anyway, the city is great to stay f
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -6° 21° -2° 28°AQI 21✈️4h$1,650 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 2° 36° 5° 41°AQI 5✈️4h$1,458 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleLived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 16° 61° 16° 60°AQI 29✈️6h$3,030 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleLove Edinburgh. A very historic place that's just generally lovely to enjoy! It's actually not as Scottish as Glasgow. There is a huge English population, as well as many other cultures. A lovely city to spends hours walking around.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 26✈️7h$5,998 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleHusband and I spent one month here, and we didn’t like it, at all! There is a lot of litter and graffiti everywhere!!!! The entire city needs a good power wash. I think that due to the volume of transitant people who live here, not much effort is put in to make it nicer. It’s a shame because there are some really nice buildings and neighborhoods that would be lovely if there was some care put into them. Unfortunately, it’s all dirty and run down. Almost every night, you will hear fir
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 5° 41°AQI 42✈️7h$4,476 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleBrighton has some obvious positives. It has a beach, it's one hour from London and the UK's 2 biggest airports. It's one of the few UK places outside of London which has a considerable cultural/creative scene. Unfortunately, the city has a massive problem with street-sleeping, begging and drugs (Many street people from the rest of the UK relocate to Brighton). It's difficult to spend an hour walking through the town centre without being harassed. In my 6 months living there, my apartment (in
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 7° 44°AQI 16✈️7h$5,080 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peopleI have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 4° 39° 6° 44°AQI 25✈️7h$5,085 / mo🌇 Also went here58 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 23✈️7h$5,079 / mo🌇 Also went here49 peoplePros: Weather is great and apartments are excellent. Cons: City is dirty including the beaches. Locals are extremely hostile, unfriendly and confrontational. There isn't a huge amount of good things to do in the city - most things are mediocre. People constantly bash into you in the street. Food and coffee is very average. Crime is awful - my apartment was broken into and my suitcase got stolen from the baggage belt at the airport. Air quality is terrible.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 57°AQI 55😷✈️8h$3,839 / mo🌇 Also went here51 peopleI spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 29✈️13h$5,343 / mo🌇 Also went here50 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
