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| ⭐️ Total score | 115 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 2 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) |
5 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Macau is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 30°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (75.1%) = feels 36°C 97°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 21 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 80.5 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 MOP in USD | USD 1.24 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MOP 1,000 = USD 124 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Coworking |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Communal Table |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Hotel presidente MACAU |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 570,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $73,187 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 85% 👱♀️ 15% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ambiente Macau Ltd |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | AirAsia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Viva Macau |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Kiang Wu Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,880 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $9,349 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $18,658 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $5,331 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,496 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $5,848 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $117 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $112 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $7 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $2 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
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19° mild |
72
22° mild |
75
24° warm |
77
25° warm |
108
42° scorching |
104
40° hot |
108
42° scorching |
102
39° hot |
106
41° scorching |
88
31° hot |
75
24° warm |
70
21° mild |
| Real |
66
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mild |
71
22°
mild |
75
24°
warm |
77
25°
warm |
88
31°
hot |
86
30°
very warm |
88
31°
hot |
86
30°
very warm |
88
31°
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81
27°
warm |
75
24°
warm |
70
21°
mild |
| Humidity |
nice 61% |
nice 78% |
nice 84% |
nice 85% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 89% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 88% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 79% |
nice 67% |
nice 72% |
| Rain |
dry 3mm |
rainy 67mm |
dry 21mm |
rainy 58mm |
rainy 85mm |
rainy 292mm |
rainy 248mm |
rainy 274mm |
rainy 107mm |
rainy 324mm |
dry 7mm |
dry 42mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 41% |
pockets 25% |
cloudy 57% |
cloudy 70% |
cloudy 66% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 84% |
pockets 50% |
cloudy 71% |
pockets 49% |
pockets 48% |
| Air quality |
bad 129 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
bad 104 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
okay 72 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 54 US AQI |
okay 60 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
bad 104 US AQI |
bad 128 US AQI |
bad 126 US AQI |
| Sun |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
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seek shade 5 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 41° 106° 32° 90° 🥵 AQI 4 ✈️1h $1,144 / mo 5 Mbps
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 AQI 57 ✈️3h $1,352 / mo 11 Mbps
Amazing city. Absolutely loved it. Yes, expensive sooooo worth it! I was only here for 5 days but absolutely hooked and will be coming back.
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Tokyo 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
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Hong 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.
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Taipei offers a great value because for far east Asia, it’s quite cheap compared to Korea or Japan. Very pretty historical city. A typical meal is usually 200 which is around $6.50 but you can easily get street food for much cheaper. I stayed for 5 weeks. Pros: extremely safe and clean Friendly locals Lots of Chinese culture - like day trips into tea fields Great tea! People spoke some English Fast wifi Clean air Lots of street food Incredible transportation - so easy to get around
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If you're physically active, CM is paradise 9 months out the year. Like many, I live here, but fly to Phuket from Mid Feb to Mid May to escape the burning season. The rest of the year, the weather is fine: about 1h of strong rain a day from May to September, then September to December is awesome with cold air in the morning and evenings, and just right warm during the day. In CM, you have unlimited landscape for: Trekking, Mountain Biking, Cycling, Road Trips on scooter or motorcycle (some of
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I've been in Phuket for about a month now. Most of that time I've spent in Ka Ron and Kata beach area, but also have been to Chalong, Pa Tong, Rawai, and Kathu. Karon and Kata beaches are my favorite. Beaches are beautiful, especially Karon. Overall most everything is reasonably priced, but not the bargain I was told it is. I eventually found a hotel I like, where I pay 12-13 euro per night (below 500 baht atm) and that is by far the lowest I found for the quality I expect. Considering the loc
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So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
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Tokyo 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
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I'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.
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A 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.
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How 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.
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This city is incredible. Now I understand why Parisians look down on other cities. It is endless. Museums, history, cool bars, incredible food, diversity, beautiful people nicely dressed... It helps a lot to speak French. It's expensive. I'd love to nomad here for a month or two. I really liked Marais as an area.
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There's no reason to live in this city. I spent a year here. The weather is not even a bit nicer compared to central-eastern Europe. Maybe when it's -4 degrees in Budapest, it's +1 in Barcelona. That's just as cold. And the insulation in apartments is practically non-existent, as well as AC and heating. If there's heating in an apartment, using it for like 3 hours/day would cost $100 a month. Speaking of apartments, pricing is ridiculous. $1500 + utilities for a 2 bedroom in a neighborhood where
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 23° 73° 23° 74° AQI 24 ✈️13h $4,729 / mo 🌇 Also went here70 people
How did SF get scored #98 on Nomad score? I agree with most of the reviews posted here. I generally work from home, but we recently rented a small conference room for a meeting. It was $250 per hour.. (yes Per Hour... no typos here).
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60° AQI 20 ✈️15h $6,466 / mo 🌇 Also went here53 people
I'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° 75° AQI 30 ✈️17h $6,860 / mo 🌇 Also went here64 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
