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| ⭐️ Overall score | 212 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Mongolia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 6 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 23°C 73°F + 😊 Comfy (70%) = feels 23°C 73°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 68 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 59 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Unitel |
| 💸 10,000 MNT in USD | USD 2.95 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MNT 1,000,000 = USD 295 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Coffee House |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee House |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,400,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $3,686 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| 🏠 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 | €1,002 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €626 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,283 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €367 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €325 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €49 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €1,015 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €48 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (137 listings) | €1,018 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €33 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm 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
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Feels | 5-15° freezing | 10-12° freezing | 28-2° freezing | 457° cold | 5714° cool | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 415° cold | 18-8° freezing | 10-12° freezing |
| Real | 10-12° freezing | 11-12° freezing | 320° freezing | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 6921° mild | 7323° mild | 6619° mild | 6619° mild | 436° very cold | 19-8° freezing | 10-12° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 43% | nice 36% | nice 43% | nice 39% | nice 37% | nice 52% | nice 67% | nice 71% | nice 53% | nice 53% | nice 55% | nice 53% |
| Rain | dry 1mm | dry 1mm | dry 3mm | dry 8mm | dry 15mm | dry 38mm | rainy 55mm | dry 42mm | dry 19mm | dry 10mm | dry 10mm | dry 2mm |
| Cloud | pockets 27% | pockets 15% | pockets 24% | pockets 46% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 72% | cloudy 57% | pockets 49% | pockets 23% | pockets 45% | pockets 31% |
| 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 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 200 people | 250 people | 200 people | 467 people | 286 people | 240 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 61✈️5h€1,144 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleOnly thing to add is that in general Saigon has terrible walkability. I love Saigon, lived there for 3 years. But motorbikes are always parked on the sidewalks so you constantly have to step onto the road which is a little hair raising. And if it's not motorbikes then there are restaurant tables scattered across the pavement. Plus the pavement is almost always cracked. I'm a pretty chill person. But going for a random walk in Saigon always leaves me kind of irritated after a while. Of course the
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 39° 102° 30° 86°🥵AQI 34✈️6h€843 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°🥵AQI 66✈️7h€1,024 / mo🌇 Also went here17 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 38✈️7h€2,400 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleI 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!
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 36° 97° 32° 90°🥵AQI 21✈️8h€927 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 23✈️8h€2,633 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 35✈️9h€4,215 / mo🌇 Also went here18 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 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 25✈️9h€3,651 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleEven if the city is kind of on the decline, it still is awesome. Perfect weather all year, amazing food, vibrant local & expat community.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 28° 83°AQI 23✈️10h€2,706 / mo🌇 Also went here21 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 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 112😷✈️14h€4,274 / mo🌇 Also went here19 people
