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| ⭐️ Total score | 42 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Mongolia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 19°C 65°F + 😊 Comfy (42%) = feels 20°C 68°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 56 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 59 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10,000 MNT in USD | USD 3.09 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MNT 1,000,000 = USD 309 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee House |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 6% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,400,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,686 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 74% 👱♀️ 26% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | UB Pro |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hunnu |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | MIAT Mongolian Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Intermed |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $965 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $701 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,309 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $374 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $340 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $41 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $744 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $35 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,269 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $42 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 1-17° freezing | 16-9° freezing | 362° cold | 436° cold | 5010° cold | 6820° mild | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 5915° cool | 394° cold | 23-5° freezing | 10-12° freezing |
| Real | 1-17° freezing | 16-9° freezing | 373° very cold | 457° cold | 5211° cool | 6720° mild | 7222° mild | 6820° mild | 5915° cool | 415° very cold | 25-4° freezing | 10-12° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 57% | nice 58% | nice 49% | nice 51% | nice 55% | nice 64% | nice 71% | nice 70% | nice 65% | nice 53% | nice 56% | nice 57% |
| Rain | dry 9mm | dry 6mm | dry 10mm | dry 38mm | dry 48mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 66mm | rainy 73mm | dry 19mm | dry 12mm | dry 2mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 61% | pockets 38% | cloudy 54% | pockets 43% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 61% | pockets 28% | pockets 41% | pockets 25% |
| Air quality | bad 225 US AQI | bad 177 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | clean 38 US AQI | okay 59 US AQI | bad 101 US AQI | bad 147 US AQI | bad 228 US AQI |
| Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 240 people | 200 people | 467 people | 333 people | 267 people | 200 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 28° 82°🥵AQI 78😷✈️6h$907 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleMoscow is a great city, especially for young and adult people. Many business here and a lot of fun. Cheap taxi. Very clean city. Online delivery 24-hours for everything! Great and cheap subway (metro). Many cultural experience, good and different food. Fast Internet and free wifi in most of public places.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 87°🥵AQI 38✈️7h$3,929 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleI've spent 4 years in Istanbul, it was one of my best experience. I met amazing people, but also a loooooot (looooot) of scams even from people I considered friends. So be careful of whom you trust there, but instead of that it is a magical city, always something to do, very beautiful, and affordable, and as a women I felt very safe there (learnt turkish but even before that I felt safe)
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 11° 52° 12° 53°AQI 72✈️8h$1,520 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 51°AQI 22✈️9h$5,154 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleHow did you guys classified Penge as rich? It is one of the worst neighbourhood I have ever been in London, the ammount of people I know that have been robbed there is appalling.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 48✈️9h$4,374 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleLived 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 13° 55° 14° 57°AQI 19✈️9h$5,080 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleOne of the best cities in Europe. Beautiful, wide streets, perfect weather. Huge tech scene & everything you can imagine. Food is next level. You can take the train and in 20 mins you will be in a nice uncrowded beach. The airport is a massive hub to go anywhere. FC Barcelona, huge huge football atmosphere. Tons of beautiful coworkings. Internet is ultra fast. Prices are expensive, but so is everything right now :(
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 22✈️10h$3,784 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 43✈️14h$5,419 / mo🌇 Also went here23 people
