⭐️ Total score | 2.76/5 (Rank #534) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍60% liked it 👎40% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Pricey: $3,204 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 24Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 14°C57°F (feels 14°C57°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 83% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 34 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 47 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Great |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $3,069 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | France |
⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌦 14°C 57°F + 💦 Damp (83%) = feels 14°C 57°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 34 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 47 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Pibrac |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Toulouse |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 107 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Tau |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | La Serre |
☕️ Best coffee place | Café Den Toulouse |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 440,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $36,826 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 84% 👱♀️ 16% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | SeLoger |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Easy Jet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,204 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,954 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $4,379 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,251 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,574 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,557 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $897 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $74 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $358 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $14 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $3 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 436° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 6418° cool | 5211° cool | 489° cold |
Real | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 7625° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7625° warm | 6418° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold |
Humidity | damp 76% | damp 80% | nice 69% | nice 59% | nice 69% | nice 74% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 76% | nice 72% | damp 81% | damp 82% |
Rain | rainy 86mm | dry 44mm | dry 27mm | dry 35mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 52mm | dry 18mm | rainy 104mm | dry 28mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 102mm |
Cloud | cloudy 85% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 66% | pockets 36% | cloudy 67% | pockets 44% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 77% |
Air quality | okay 61 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | okay 52 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 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 | 350 people | 343 people | 333 people | 467 people | 433 people | 422 people | 625 people | 527 people | 436 people | 543 people | 356 people | 560 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 40✈️15min$3,418 / mo24Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 17° 63° 16° 61°AQI 38✈️20min$5,230 / mo21Mbps×Honestly not as bad as this site suggests. There are a few coworking spaces here, although they're pretty expensive and people don't speak english well. The location is great if you like sightseeing - there are many things to see in the city and its sorroundings, and if you get bored you can always hop on a train to Marseille, Lyon, Nimes or some other city nearby. The city gets cold in the winter (especially with the wind blowing all the time) and people generally don't speak english well. The
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 51✈️21min$5,286 / mo33Mbps×Cool city if you want to practice surfing and eat some basque food. The weather is cool (maybe a little rainy), warm and not too hot. The only downside is the housing price :/
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 17✈️22min$6,806 / mo25Mbps×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 24✈️47min$5,785 / mo19Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 20° 68° 19° 66°AQI 32✈️1h$3,801 / mo39Mbps×Rouen is my HQ since 6 years when I return in France, and it's a pretty city, with a lot of pubs, very good restaurants and a chill city. If you like the parisian life (a lot of places to eat, drink a glass, some clubs and cultural outing) without the cost of Paris, Rouen is good for you !
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌦 Feels 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 53✈️52min$4,748 / mo33Mbps×I agree so much with this review from 11 months ago. "A city right out of a dystopian novel" - that's what I was thinking on the way to the Airport after spending just a week in Bangkok. A city right out of a dystopian novel - soulless and cynical. The air is polluted and no trees are in sight. Its inhabitants manipulative and cold-hearted - hidden behind fake smiles. A Disney Land for senile retirees. Everything is for sale and nothing has value. The streets are filled with rats - both human o
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open☀️ Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 63✈️39min$4,424 / mo21Mbps×Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 24✈️47min$5,785 / mo🌇 Also went here141 people×Didn't like this city that much. Been there twice and honestly it has nothing so special. Just the DUOMO in the center is the main great scenery but besides that, nothing in particular to bother for.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 61✈️2h$4,020 / mo🌇 Also went here102 people×Stayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 171😷✈️2h$2,373 / mo🌇 Also went here67 people×Taxis in Istanbul are a big problem even for locals. Public transport is convenient and comfortable. If you need to call a taxi, I recommend using an app. "Bitaksi" can be used. Agree with the taxi driver using google translate and negotiate in advance if necessary. Always make public transportation your first choice. There are millions of refugees in this city against a registered population of 15 million. A significant number of asylum seekers do not have any registered documents and this cre
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 49°AQI 10✈️3h$2,214 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×I've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety mediocreTap to open☀️ Feels 8° 46° 9° 49°AQI 35✈️8h$6,292 / mo🌇 Also went here64 people×I agree so much with this review from 11 months ago. "A city right out of a dystopian novel" - that's what I was thinking on the way to the Airport after spending just a week in Bangkok. A city right out of a dystopian novel - soulless and cynical. The air is polluted and no trees are in sight. Its inhabitants manipulative and cold-hearted - hidden behind fake smiles. A Disney Land for senile retirees. Everything is for sale and nothing has value. The streets are filled with rats - both human o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 41° 106° 32° 90°🥵AQI 76😷✈️13h$2,107 / mo🌇 Also went here62 people×