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| ⭐️ Overall score | 212 reviews |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Mongolia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 8°C 46°F + 😊 Comfy (46%) = feels 7°C 45°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 21 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 2.89 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MNT 1,000,000 = USD 289 |
| 💸 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 | €859 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | €594 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | €1,257 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | €359 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | €318 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | €48 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €706 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | €33 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (210 listings) | €922 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | €30 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | €2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | €0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | €1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | €1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ 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
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ 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 | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 0 people | 1 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 38✈️9h€3,551 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleLived in Barcelona for a year and a half. I would agree that the weather is perfect and Barcelona does have a great tech scene as well as food and has everything landscape and lifestyle wise that you could think of. Bureaucracy isn't too bad if you nip it in the bu** early and have patience. Also, some clubs are free. (Jamboree!). The metro is also, very efficient with red and purple being the busiest lines. Very walkable city too. Plenty of opportunity to meet people as well. The beaches are ok
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 18° 64°AQI 23✈️10h€2,517 / 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 21° 70° 20° 68°AQI 42✈️14h€3,904 / mo🌇 Also went here18 people
