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| ⭐️ Total score | 44 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Mongolia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 -13°C 9°F + 😊 Comfy (64%) = feels -13°C 9°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 55 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 59 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10,000 MNT in USD | USD 2.94 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MNT 1,000,000 = USD 294 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Coffee House |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Coffee House |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 8% 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) | 👨 76% 👱♀️ 24% |
| 🏞 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 | $1,950 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,289 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,037 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $868 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,140 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,162 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $832 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $53 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $38 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $279 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $7 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 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
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ 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 | 267 people | 400 people | 200 people | 240 people | 200 people | 360 people | 333 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 102😷✈️6h$1,386 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌫 Feels -4° 25° -1° 30°AQI 30✈️6h$2,743 / mo🌇 Also went here26 peopleNot gonna lie, I was pretty curious and kinda hyped before I came to Singapore. However, within 24 hours all of my curiosity turned into disappointment. Yes, Singapore is clean by any standards but especially by Asian standards. And yes, you have shopping malls, fancy skyscrapers and free toilets everywhere. But beside from that Singapore is boring and has no soul. It just seems like Singapore tries to copy interesting parts of other countries and their nature. Take Cloud Forest for example wh
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 53✈️7h$5,047 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleTaxis in Istanbul are a big problem even for locals. Public transport is convenient and comfortable. If you need to call a taxi, I recommend using an app. "Bitaksi" can be used. Agree with the taxi driver using google translate and negotiate in advance if necessary. Always make public transportation your first choice. There are millions of refugees in this city against a registered population of 15 million. A significant number of asylum seekers do not have any registered documents and this cre
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 5° 41° 7° 44°AQI 25✈️8h$2,202 / mo🌇 Also went here27 peopleI've been hanging out in Berlin on and off for 30 years. It is very safe for women. It is much friendlier than it used to be. There are loads of vegan restaurants now. The nightlife and specially jazz clubs are amazing! I have an excellent apartment to rent out in Wedding - which used to have a boring reputation but now is very cool.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 4° 39° 6° 42°AQI 26✈️8h$3,951 / mo🌇 Also went here25 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 4° 39° 8° 46°AQI 37✈️9h$6,624 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 7° 45° 9° 49°AQI 59✈️9h$5,344 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 7° 45° 9° 48°AQI 500😷✈️9h$5,498 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleNomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 53°AQI 41✈️10h$5,478 / 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 3° 37° 4° 38°AQI 28✈️14h$6,457 / mo🌇 Also went here25 people
