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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 209 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Maldives |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 5 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 85°F + 😊 Comfy (63%) = feels 34°C 93°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 64 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 68 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Dhiraagu |
| 💸 100 MVR in USD | USD 6.47 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | MVR 1,000 = USD 65 |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | The Sea House Maldives |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Cafe' ier |
| 🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Kaani Lodge |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 12% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 140,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $8,833 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 😤 crowded: 7x7m (49m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 68% 👱♀️ 32% |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ibay |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Emirates |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
| 🏥 Best hospital | ADK Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,258 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,315 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,692 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $769 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $712 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $145 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $537 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $25 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ People can speak basic English
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not safe for women
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Real | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 71% | sweaty 75% | nice 70% | nice 70% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 76% | sweaty 71% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 74% | sweaty 77% |
| Rain | dry 9mm | dry 24mm | dry 12mm | dry 44mm | rainy 65mm | dry 44mm | dry 39mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 63mm | rainy 135mm | rainy 155mm | rainy 117mm |
| Cloud | pockets 44% | cloudy 59% | pockets 41% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 75% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 89% | cloudy 87% | overcast 90% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 84% |
| Sun | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 0 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people |
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 21✈️8h$1,149 / mo🌇 Also went here16 peopleI stayed here for a month in July last year. There's lots of cool aspects to the city but I hated it when I was there. The city has a problem with British stag parties, so if you look like you're a British male and speak English expect to be treated with disdain (it's fair enough) The Hungarians can just generally be unfriendly, especially bartenders. It's a weird experience waiting to be served while 3 people ignore you. Or buying the same drink and getting charged whatever they want (700-1500
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 36✈️10h$3,319 / mo🌇 Also went here18 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 18° 64° 17° 62°AQI 33✈️11h$3,164 / mo🌇 Also went here20 peopleHousing is an issue (so cost of living is high) but the city is beautiful and summer in Amsterdam is hard to beat with all the cultural activiies and music festivals. Would not want to live in the actual city center (inside the "grachtengordel") but have been living in East for over 2 years now and aside from the price (and size) of apartment life is just good here. Biking everywhere is bliss. Winter can be cold though.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 16° 61° 15° 59°AQI 50✈️11h$4,907 / mo🌇 Also went here18 peopleSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 17° 63° 17° 63°AQI 73✈️11h$4,119 / mo🌇 Also went here20 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.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 60°AQI 47✈️11h$4,272 / mo🌇 Also went here29 peopleIt's great if you're woke, young & artsy. If you're just a regular guy in your 30's with no connections, you'll have a miserable time. Especially during the pandemic. It's not inexpensive and you get offered cocaine every 200 meters in the city center.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 47✈️12h$2,130 / mo🌇 Also went here16 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.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 19° 66° 19° 66°AQI 52✈️19h$4,876 / mo🌇 Also went here25 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
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 13° 56°AQI 42✈️20h$5,603 / mo🌇 Also went here15 peopleNothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 73°AQI 80😷✈️21h$4,379 / mo🌇 Also went here20 people
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