⭐️ Total score |
1.72/5 (Rank #1280)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Bad |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
🧐 Pricey: $3,672 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 4Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🌞 Perfect: 28°C82°F (feels 33°C91°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 86%
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👌 Safety |
Okay
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🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Bad
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🎓 Education level* |
Low |
⚡️ Power grid |
Very bad
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$203 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Bad |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Good |
👩 Female friendly |
Bad |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Oceania |
🚩 Country | Papua New Guinea |
🗓️ Average trip length | 41 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 28°C 82°F + 🥵 Sweaty (86%) = feels 33°C 91°F
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🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 PGK in USD | USD 2.62 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PGK 1,000 = USD 262 |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
💻 Best coworking space | Jurudaya Work Site |
☕️ Best coffee place | Café on the Edge |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 250,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,436 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 60% 👱♀️ 40% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 83% 👱♀️ 17% |
🏠 Apartment listings | Hausples |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Airlines PNG |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Niugini |
🏥 Best hospital | Port Moresby General Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,672 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,011 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,074 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,450 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $4,384 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,004 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,302 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $205 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $66 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $179 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $9 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $3 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $3 |
👩🏫 International school | $4,196 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $70 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $6 / trip |
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Too expensive
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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81
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81
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81
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81
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81
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82
28° warm |
82
28° warm |
82
28° warm |
Real |
82
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very warm |
82
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very warm |
82
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very warm |
82
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81
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81
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80
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80
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81
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82
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82
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82
28°
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Humidity |
nice 41% |
nice 40% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 43% |
nice 42% |
nice 42% |
nice 43% |
nice 41% |
nice 41% |
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Rain |
rainy 240mm |
rainy 226mm |
rainy 270mm |
rainy 192mm |
rainy 101mm |
rainy 57mm |
dry 35mm |
dry 39mm |
dry 50mm |
rainy 68mm |
rainy 118mm |
rainy 200mm |
Cloud |
pockets 43% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 44% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 38% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 40% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 42% |
Sun |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 😡 Slow 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52° AQI 20 ✈️19h $3,964 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people ×It is more expensve than expected. Depending whete you live, streets can be dirty. It seems the government only uses the tax money to invest in the high en areas. Thwre are is a lot of inequality. People are very racist. I am Mexican, and the first thing people ask me here, is whete do I come from. I have never felt as discriminated as here and to be honest I dont think I have it as bad as other people.
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