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| ⭐️ Overall score | 216 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Oceania |
| 🚩 Country | Australia |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 10 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 19 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 26°C 80°F + 😊 Comfy (73%) = feels 28°C 82°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 28 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Telstra |
| 💸 10 AUD in USD | USD 7.27 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | AUD 100 = USD 73 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Top Shop |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Startinno |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $54,069 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Kogan |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Singapore Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Singapore Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Byron Central Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,146 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $4,677 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $10,531 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $3,009 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,907 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $268 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,108 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $99 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (6 listings) | $6,664 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $218 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $12 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not that great
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| Feels | 9032° hot | 8429° warm | 8630° warm | 7524° warm | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 8228° warm | 8429° warm |
| Real | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm | 8127° warm | 7524° warm | 7222° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7222° mild | 7524° warm | 8027° warm | 8127° warm |
| Humidity | nice 66% | nice 66% | sweaty 73% | nice 69% | nice 65% | nice 67% | nice 67% | nice 63% | nice 62% | nice 64% | nice 63% | nice 69% |
| Rain | dry 13mm | dry 21mm | rainy 66mm | dry 36mm | dry 22mm | rainy 229mm | dry 20mm | dry 16mm | dry 12mm | dry 20mm | dry 9mm | rainy 70mm |
| Cloud | pockets 13% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 51% | pockets 33% | pockets 29% | pockets 46% | clear 8% | pockets 14% | pockets 11% | pockets 36% | pockets 27% | pockets 42% |
| Sun | avoid sun 13 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 367 people | 400 people | 0 people | 233 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 400 people | 267 people | 314 people |
Based on Byron Bay's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
My partner and I lived in Gold Coast for 6 months during the coronavirus pandemic. Its a very expensive place to live and its hard to find optimal housing. There are many Austrialians looking to live here so its has a growing housing market, we experienced a rental rate increase during our stay. This seems to be a lively city with many visitors and fun amusement parks, clubs, and nice shopping centers. But for us the main value was its proximity to a world class beach. This is THE nicest city
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 35🚕2h$2,986 / mo18Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 26✈️11min$3,409 / mo32MbpsAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 12° 54° 14° 58°AQI 13✈️50min$3,877 / mo19Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 13° 55° 14° 58°AQI 21✈️55min$3,462 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 14✈️1h$4,082 / mo18MbpsNot cheap, but you get what you're paying for. Really nice, comfortable city, not too dirty or crowded, awesome food, and lots to do
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 26✈️2h$3,149 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 75°AQI 28✈️2h$5,826 / mo3MbpsI was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 31✈️2h$2,759 / mo21Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 19✈️2h$3,059 / mo19Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 2✈️2h$3,165 / mo20Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 80°AQI 1✈️3h$3,718 / moBusy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 20✈️3h$3,408 / mo30Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 26✈️11min$3,409 / mo32MbpsAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 12° 54° 14° 58°AQI 13✈️50min$3,877 / mo19MbpsMy partner and I lived in Gold Coast for 6 months during the coronavirus pandemic. Its a very expensive place to live and its hard to find optimal housing. There are many Austrialians looking to live here so its has a growing housing market, we experienced a rental rate increase during our stay. This seems to be a lively city with many visitors and fun amusement parks, clubs, and nice shopping centers. But for us the main value was its proximity to a world class beach. This is THE nicest city
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 35🚕2h$2,986 / mo18MbpsNot cheap, but you get what you're paying for. Really nice, comfortable city, not too dirty or crowded, awesome food, and lots to do
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 26✈️2h$3,149 / mo21MbpsCanggu is a great place to live. Im a remote worker and have lived here for most of COVID and then some. In total Im thinking something like 20 of the last 24 months! It is brilliantly priced for someone with a steady income who wants their money to go far. I spent about $3,000 USD living like a king with a prime location villa, private chef, the most expensive gym and spa membership, and eating out at least 10 times a week. Only cons I see is the road safety and the people who tend to come. Fo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 20✈️6h$1,028 / mo22MbpsHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 20✈️6h$1,050 / mo13Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 38✈️10h$1,750 / mo2MbpsI was there in November 2017. The people are very friendly, great restraunts on the sea front board walk, and as a diver great access to the great Barrier Reef. Either a train or cable car ride from the town station will take you up into the largest tended an cultivated tropical rain forest in the world. If you like life free and easy beautiful Cairns is for you.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 82°AQI 31✈️2h$2,759 / mo21MbpsAll in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 48° 118° 35° 95°🥵AQI 40✈️18h$4,402 / mo83MbpsBusy city. Lots of fun. Lots of different choices for food. Great night life
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 20✈️3h$3,408 / mo30MbpsSome things I don't like about Jakarta- 1. Not much English spoken 2. Everything is overpriced especially food and alcohol. 3. People are weird, smug, rude and kind of r-cist actually. 4. The food isnt good except for nasi goreng and satay and most of it is low quality. 5. Everywhere is crowded and locals are loud so good luck finding a place to work. 6. Visas are costly and difficult if you want to stay long term.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 88°🥵AQI 124😷✈️7h$1,196 / mo11MbpsDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 25✈️10h$1,318 / mo30Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 26✈️11min$3,409 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleAmazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 12° 54° 14° 58°AQI 13✈️50min$3,877 / mo🌇 Also went here28 peopleNot cheap, but you get what you're paying for. Really nice, comfortable city, not too dirty or crowded, awesome food, and lots to do
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 12° 54° 13° 55°AQI 26✈️2h$3,149 / mo🌇 Also went here30 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 20✈️6h$1,050 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleCanggu is a great place to live. Im a remote worker and have lived here for most of COVID and then some. In total Im thinking something like 20 of the last 24 months! It is brilliantly priced for someone with a steady income who wants their money to go far. I spent about $3,000 USD living like a king with a prime location villa, private chef, the most expensive gym and spa membership, and eating out at least 10 times a week. Only cons I see is the road safety and the people who tend to come. Fo
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 29° 85°🥵AQI 20✈️6h$1,028 / 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 34° 93° 29° 84°🥵AQI 34✈️8h$2,862 / mo🌇 Also went here24 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 38✈️9h$967 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 27° 81°🥵AQI 25✈️10h$1,318 / mo🌇 Also went here25 peopleChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) 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 37° 99° 29° 85°🥵AQI 25✈️11h$979 / mo🌇 Also went here21 peopleI've been living in SF since 2014 and I have to say Cost of Living is misrepresented. It's a lot more expensive now (2020) than posted. 1-bdr in center is $3,500-$4,000 + $200-$300 for parking + $100-$200 for utilities. Almost impossible to find month-to-month rent, so this is for 1-year lease. Coffee for two + a pastry is easily $20. Dinner for two never less than $50, unless it's fast food (+20% tips are expected) and if you want actually something good it's at least $100 for two. Airbnb is $1
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 35✈️15h$5,687 / mo🌇 Also went here22 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😷✈️21h$5,111 / mo🌇 Also went here17 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 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 16✈️21h$3,082 / 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 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 42✈️22h$4,287 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 18° 65°AQI 29✈️22h$4,018 / 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 19✈️23h$3,106 / mo🌇 Also went here15 people
