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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 233 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😄 Happiness | |
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| 🖥 Places to work from | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Kazakhstan |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 12 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 6°C 44°F + 💦 Damp (73%) = feels 6°C 43°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 107 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app (in country) | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Kcell |
| 💸 1,000 KZT in USD | USD 2.38 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | KZT 100,000 = USD 238 |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Veloyedov |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Nedelka |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 15% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,500,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $7,705 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 41% 👱♀️ 59% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Krisha |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Astana |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Astana |
| 🏥 Best hospital | IMC |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,270 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $782 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,442 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $412 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $226 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $194 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $357 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $17 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (145 listings) | $1,123 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $37 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Not many members go here
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 362° cold | 373° cold | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 6820° mild | 7725° warm | 8429° warm | 8228° warm | 7323° mild | 6116° cool | 415° cold | 373° cold |
| Real | 362° very cold | 373° very cold | 5211° cool | 6016° cool | 6619° mild | 7625° warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 7323° mild | 6116° cool | 415° very cold | 373° very cold |
| Humidity | nice 53% | nice 56% | nice 51% | nice 59% | nice 41% | nice 45% | nice 35% | nice 34% | nice 42% | nice 46% | nice 63% | nice 60% |
| Rain | dry 13mm | dry 14mm | dry 23mm | dry 47mm | dry 29mm | rainy 140mm | dry 25mm | dry 35mm | dry 43mm | dry 36mm | dry 23mm | dry 25mm |
| Cloud | pockets 44% | pockets 48% | pockets 36% | cloudy 57% | pockets 20% | pockets 49% | pockets 20% | pockets 13% | pockets 41% | pockets 42% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 75% |
| Sun | safe 2 UVI | safe 2 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people |
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 149😷✈️1h$1,107 / mo9MbpsSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels -6° 21° -2° 28°AQI 22✈️5h$1,452 / mo17MbpsI spent one year in Istanbul and it's absolutely amazing. The city is really safe, I went back home really late during the night, walking, without any problem. Parties are really fun and there are all kinds of spots to have fun (bars, nightclubs, restaurants...). The city has a lot of cafés to work at and most of them have free and reliable wifi. Definitely recommend!
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 7° 45° 8° 47°AQI 66✈️6h$2,321 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 5° 41° 6° 42°AQI 68✈️6h$3,001 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 6° 43° 6° 43°AQI 65✈️7h$4,507 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
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