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| ⭐️ Total score | 214 reviews |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Mongolia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 6°C 44°F + 💦 Damp (76%) = feels 4°C 39°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 25 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 59 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Unitel |
| 💸 10,000 MNT in USD | USD 3.22 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MNT 1,000,000 = USD 322 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| ☕️ 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 | $946 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $691 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,400 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $400 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $354 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $53 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $675 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $32 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 151 listings) | $1,143 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $37 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ 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
❌ Very damp now
❌ 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 | 300 people | 267 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 3✈️7h$1,307 / mo10MbpsThe Middle Ages meet industrial-age pollution: this is a grimy tropical backwater with none of Taipei's vibrancy, efficiency or even politeness. Cycle or hike in the quote-unquote national park north of the city for marshes, dengue fever, junkyards, stray dogs, and massive concrete jetties obstructing ocean views.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 36° 97°🥵AQI 70✈️2h$2,562 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 53✈️3h$1,945 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 28° 83°🥵AQI 35✈️4h$2,422 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 38✈️4h$3,049 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 72✈️4h$973 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleI cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 82😷✈️5h$1,324 / mo🌇 Also went here29 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 35° 95° 29° 84°🥵AQI 13✈️6h$956 / mo🌇 Also went here20 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 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 29✈️6h$2,376 / mo🌇 Also went here22 peopleLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 38° 100° 31° 88°🥵AQI 30✈️7h$3,615 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleA great place to be. Excellent price/quality ratio. You can easily find everything needed to work: coworking, sim (you can eg use Airalo). There is a plenty of things to do in the city and around it. Food is dirt cheap and delicious. It can be trashy and sometimes touristy but that didn't cause problems for me.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 28° 82° 27° 81°AQI 50✈️8h$1,131 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 30✈️8h$4,322 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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 11° 52° 13° 56°AQI 27✈️9h$5,959 / mo🌇 Also went here19 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 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 45✈️9h$5,061 / mo🌇 Also went here19 peopleBest city in Spain. Weather is great even in December and the clubbing scene is fun. There's lots to do and it's a beautiful city overall. You have to watch out for pickpockets but as long as you aren't leaving things unattended or obviously in your pockets you'll be fine. If you're into hostels, Hostel One Paralelo is BY FAR the best hostel in the area, worth every penny. Will definitely be back, and I never say that.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 79°AQI 36✈️10h$3,829 / mo🌇 Also went here23 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 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 12✈️14h$5,566 / mo🌇 Also went here21 people
