⭐️ Total score |
2.58/5 (Rank #542)
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❤️ Liked by members |
👍50% liked it 👎50% disliked it
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Okay |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,408 / mo
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📡 Internet |
😡 Slow: 12Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Great |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥵 Hot: 29°C85°F (feels 35°C95°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
🥵 Sweaty: 83%
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
🌱 Good: 52 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Okay
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🤮 Food safety* |
Good
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👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Okay
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🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
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🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Okay
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💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$246 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Good |
🚶 Walkability |
Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Okay |
✈️ Airline scores* |
Good |
🧳 Lost luggage* |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Bad |
🍸 Nightlife |
Okay |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Great |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Okay |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Okay |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Philippines |
🗓️ Average trip length | 11 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 12 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (83%) = feels 35°C 95°F
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💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 53 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V 60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* |
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🚑 Travel medical insurance |
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💸 100 PHP in USD | USD 1.71 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | PHP 10,000 = USD 171 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | Starbucks |
💻 Best alt. coworking space | Dojo8 |
☕️ Best coffee place | Itoy's Coffee Haus |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Island Coffee |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | Ardent Suites Hotel and Spa |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👎2% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 850,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,951 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 73% 👱♀️ 27% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Lazada |
🏠 Apartment listings | Ayosdito |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Cebu Pacific |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Philippine |
🏥 Best hospital | Palawan Adventist Hospital |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,408 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $940 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,222 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $635 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $728 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,061 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $570 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $34 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $35 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $247 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ 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 make friends
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
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Humidity |
nice 42% |
nice 41% |
nice 41% |
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Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain |
rainy 112mm |
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rainy 186mm |
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Cloud |
cloudy 52% |
pockets 46% |
pockets 37% |
pockets 45% |
pockets 48% |
cloudy 56% |
cloudy 54% |
pockets 50% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 53% |
cloudy 50% |
Air quality |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 85 US AQI |
bad 102 US AQI |
okay 53* US AQI |
clean 46 US AQI |
clean 44 US AQI |
clean 46 US AQI |
clean 48 US AQI |
okay 53 US AQI |
okay 57 US AQI |
okay 59 US AQI |
okay 66 US AQI |
Sun |
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Remote workers | 520 people | 200 people | 250 people | 314 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 300 people | 560 people |
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It's a fantastic spot for kitesurfing nomads within the season: you can kitesurf on the windy side of the island or go to the White Beach where the wind doesn't reach and chill on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It's a small island, so expect to start bumping into people you know after a couple of days, but it's got enough to offer to keep you entertained for a couple of weeks, and if you kitesurf even longer. There are some apartment with internet speed allowing you to work fr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️34min $2,242 / mo 12 Mbps ×Nice and laid back city with good infrastructure. 4G coverage was good
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️42min $1,270 / mo 22 Mbps ×This city doesn't deserve to be ahead of cities like Da Nang or Chiang Mai. Still way to underdeveloped. Yes a lot of coffees for wifi but dirty and overall not great conditions for nomads. You'll not find almost any nomads there. I would skip it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️45min $1,380 / mo 26 Mbps ×Makati greenbelt and rockwell are nice enough to stay long-term. Especially greenbelt is clean and safe, the greenbelt mall and park is outstanding. Around greenbelt you have three decent sized parks available. Outside of this small bubble of cosiness its chaos dirt and sketchiness. Stay away from Poblacion, its just disgusting. Best bet for a clean and comfortable place to stay are hotels and serviced apartments. Avoid airbnb, its all trash. BGC is another alternative, tough I don't like it muc
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87° 🥵 ✈️46min $1,636 / mo 12 Mbps ×I'm staying in BGC as I write this, and so far PH most aggressively mediocre place I've travelled to in Asia. While I'm used to free/cheap wifi, friendly people, and great food living in place like Thailand, even staying in the most modern area in the country lacks all of those (no free Wifi even at Starbucks, and I've seen "cooked fresh" restaurant food taken out of the freezer before cooking). Social culture is very uncanny valley, people are "polite" but it's extremely fake, which you'll noti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87° 🥵 ✈️47min $1,489 / mo 12 Mbps ×I have to disagree with some of the scores: there is NO freedom of speech when it comes to the Royal Family, government or Islam. Anyone who speaks in a derogatory way about the government, royal family or Islam will be deported (or jailed if they are Bruneian). There is NO freedom of the press either. Downtown Bandar is walkable if you don't mind the heat, but a car is 100% a necessity living in Brunei. There is a small bus service that runs at apparently random times, but no other public
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️55min $1,877 / mo 11 Mbps ×Much cooler climate due to the altitude and a lot of good nature settings (some of the parks require 100 Pesos entry). Still has the comforts of a city with a big SM mall and good shops and restaurants. Absolutely packed in summer as it's a popular vacation destination for locals. Getting around can be difficult because only taxis are allowed, not ride-sharing, and the taxis are in high demand. Grab app only shows taxis and often fails to secure a ride. That said, the city is compact and traffi
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 30° 86° 26° 79° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,660 / mo 12 Mbps ×Best suited for surfers..
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 35° 95° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,679 / mo 12 Mbps ×I was here for almost three weeks last month. The internet is fast, and the surroundings are beautiful. The people are friendly, and most of them speak English well. I never felt unsafe during my stay. If you know where to go, there's plenty to do. There are many lovely parks, and the food is delicious and surprisingly affordable (I highly recommend Roxas). The shopping centers are of high quality. It's best to install the Grab app or take taxis for transportation. Public transportation can take
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,293 / mo 29 Mbps ×⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 ✈️1h $1,135 / mo 12 Mbps ×
I’ve come to expect a few challenges, but General Luna (including Back Road, Cloud 9, and Malinao) takes it to another level. The people are lovely, the food is ok, housing can be pricey. TL;DR: If you want to work reliably, find a place with fiber internet and solar power, or a generator that can run all day, which are the more expensive places. First off, forget about maintaining a regular work schedule. Power cuts, blackouts, and brownouts are the norm here. Whether planned or due to loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84° ✈️1h $1,742 / mo 35 Mbps ×City was cheap and pretty but there's not that many cafes to work from, plenty of tourists and it was hard to make friends. If you go here make sure to rent a motorbike and check out the nature but there are better places to live at in Vietnam.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 39° 102° 33° 92° 🥵 AQI 19 ✈️1h $1,891 / mo 16 Mbps ×I'm staying in BGC as I write this, and so far PH most aggressively mediocre place I've travelled to in Asia. While I'm used to free/cheap wifi, friendly people, and great food living in place like Thailand, even staying in the most modern area in the country lacks all of those (no free Wifi even at Starbucks, and I've seen "cooked fresh" restaurant food taken out of the freezer before cooking). Social culture is very uncanny valley, people are "polite" but it's extremely fake, which you'll noti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87° 🥵 ✈️47min $1,489 / mo 12 Mbps ×This city doesn't deserve to be ahead of cities like Da Nang or Chiang Mai. Still way to underdeveloped. Yes a lot of coffees for wifi but dirty and overall not great conditions for nomads. You'll not find almost any nomads there. I would skip it.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️45min $1,380 / mo 26 Mbps ×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️3h $1,358 / mo 90 Mbps ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️5h $3,081 / mo 75 Mbps ×Absolutely beautiful country. Everything functions well. Cost is low. Endless beautiful cafes and sights. Cons: The locals are not very friendly. Need an app for everything because English is not common.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 87° 🥵 AQI 17 ✈️4h $2,557 / mo 85 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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 18° 64° 17° 63° AQI 29 ✈️8h $3,887 / mo 126 Mbps ×I’ve come to expect a few challenges, but General Luna (including Back Road, Cloud 9, and Malinao) takes it to another level. The people are lovely, the food is ok, housing can be pricey. TL;DR: If you want to work reliably, find a place with fiber internet and solar power, or a generator that can run all day, which are the more expensive places. First off, forget about maintaining a regular work schedule. Power cuts, blackouts, and brownouts are the norm here. Whether planned or due to loca
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84° ✈️1h $1,742 / mo 35 Mbps ×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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️3h $6,062 / mo 74 Mbps ×It's a fantastic spot for kitesurfing nomads within the season: you can kitesurf on the windy side of the island or go to the White Beach where the wind doesn't reach and chill on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It's a small island, so expect to start bumping into people you know after a couple of days, but it's got enough to offer to keep you entertained for a couple of weeks, and if you kitesurf even longer. There are some apartment with internet speed allowing you to work fr
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 84° ✈️34min $2,242 / mo 12 Mbps ×Ko Samui is an amazing place, I don't agree at all with the CON's. I am a Thai-American and have lived all over Thailand. Ko Samui is my favorite. The people, culture and experience of Ko Samui is wonderful. The roads are dangerous usually due to tourists. Not the locals LOL! This will be changing with Thai law requiring drivers license's. Of course it is humid and sweaty, my goodness you are in the tropics, and April is the hottest month. I suggest researching the best times of year to visit t
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85° ✈️3h $1,412 / mo 88 Mbps ×Panama City very interesting and slept on. Probably the most developed major city in Latin America with the strongest technology infrastructure which makes it very appealing for digital nomads. Also a lot of international business coming through here so there can definitely be good networking opportunities. It’s also super safe compared to other South American hotspots like Medellin however it is significantly more expensive. I would say prices here are slightly less expensive than southern s
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety bad Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82° 🥵 ✈️23h $2,516 / mo 30 Mbps ×- Relaxed city to live in and incredibly safe. Nice if you want access to nature in southern Taiwan. Not so much english but locals are very friendly and will always try to help you. - Lots of cheap food available but while some is tasty, most is highly processed and full of oil/sugar . If you want decent quality food, it won't be much cheaper than back home. Many restaurants have an order card, so if you can't speak chinese you can grab the card and a pencil and use your phone to translate the
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83° 🥵 ✈️2h $1,444 / mo 32 Mbps ×I'm staying in BGC as I write this, and so far PH most aggressively mediocre place I've travelled to in Asia. While I'm used to free/cheap wifi, friendly people, and great food living in place like Thailand, even staying in the most modern area in the country lacks all of those (no free Wifi even at Starbucks, and I've seen "cooked fresh" restaurant food taken out of the freezer before cooking). Social culture is very uncanny valley, people are "polite" but it's extremely fake, which you'll noti
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked very bad 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 31° 87° 🥵 ✈️47min $1,489 / mo 🌇 Also went here28 people ×You could do worse, you could do better. Filthy & stressful, you have to Grab everywhere, even a short walk results in dodging aggressive motorbikes. Locals are super unfriendly, way worse than Hanoi, so not sure why everyone raves about how friendly they are in comparison. Poor quality in everything, even the luxury experiences are a total rip-off. Surprisingly underdeveloped too, not even a bar on their observation deck in Bitexco. Internet is really good, but stay as far from D1 as you can -
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85° 🥵 AQI 3 ✈️2h $1,030 / mo 🌇 Also went here24 people ×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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🙂 Okay 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84° 🥵 ✈️2h $2,925 / mo 🌇 Also went here22 people ×Two weeks in Hanoi. Really enjoyed the city. Besides, the pollution, a nice charming city. Great access to all the tourist destinations in the north Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh, Sa Pa. WiFi is excellent. Food is excellent. People are friendly. Not a nightlife person or coworking space but it's available. Cafes are everywhere and yes egg coffee is amazing. Definitely recommend.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 51° 124° 36° 97° 🥵 AQI 104 😷 ✈️2h $1,054 / mo 🌇 Also went here21 people ×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.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85° ✈️3h $6,062 / mo 🌇 Also went here34 people ×I try to like this city and been many times (twice for 1 month and few times for few days) but it's been pretty rough. Overall malaysia is not that easy for slow nomads (if you want to stay for 1-3 months) and I still preferred penang much more. This might be good place for family to settle or if you having base for most of the year with many friends around. LOGISTICS You will waste a lot of time to move around: - if you hate malls you won't be able to avoid it - crossing some street sometimes
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86° 🥵 AQI 65 😷 ✈️3h $1,267 / mo 🌇 Also went here34 people ×(It seems my paragraph formatting is being removed due to the length of my comment, so sorry you'll have to deal with the wall of text if you want to read this, haha) Have been in Bangkok for the past 6 months. I've been nomadic for the past 4 years across Europe & the US, and as someone who is used to walking everywhere and greenery, I found it quite difficult living here. I spent my first 5 months living in Airbnbs, which were fine for around $6-800/m, and for the last month decided to live in
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 60 😷 ✈️3h $1,358 / mo 🌇 Also went here43 people ×Ubud is dead. I plan to stay here for a month starting today, but my heart is already breaking. The traffic is too much. The center of Ubud is always crowded with cars and motorcycles, not a very relaxing environment. It's a pity.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77° AQI 50 ✈️3h $1,955 / mo 🌇 Also went here22 people ×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 26° 79° AQI 50 ✈️3h $1,844 / mo 🌇 Also went here29 people ×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 32° 90° 27° 81° 🥵 AQI 27 ✈️3h $994 / mo 🌇 Also went here35 people ×2nd time to Tokyo in 2 years. So much to see and do and great value in the past few years due to a declining yen against the USD & Euro. Wework (not open past 6pm & only iceberg open on weekends), Airalo Esim, and Wise Visa are your friend. Check out my Youtube for some nomad guides (Chicvoyage, @digitalnomadworld). I like Roppongi area. Stay in a hotel
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked great 👮 Safety great Tap to open 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 34° 93° 🥵 AQI 42 ✈️5h $3,081 / mo 🌇 Also went here22 people ×I recently visited Amsterdam for the third time (and the first time since 2018). I personally think it's a little overrated, but a cool place to visit nonetheless. The architecture is beautiful, and there are lots of good places to eat. I don't like the main area of the canals in the city centre; it smells of weed and is often packed. However, the outer edges - such as the Jordaan district - are less busy and more interesting in my opinion. One thing that surprised me is how much trash was o
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌧 Feels 21° 70° 20° 67° AQI 27 ✈️14h $5,666 / mo 🌇 Also went here24 people ×I have heard of a friend of a friend that in France it is important to bring sandpaper and to have suitable medical insurance which covers eye reconstruction surgery. “Well worth a visit, would recommend”.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked good 👮 Safety mediocre Tap to open 🌧 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72° AQI 55 😷 ✈️15h $5,439 / mo 🌇 Also went here22 people ×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked bad 👮 Safety good Tap to open 🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 69° AQI 25 ✈️15h $5,697 / mo 🌇 Also went here24 people ×Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive 📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast 👍 Liked mediocre 👮 Safety good Tap to open ☀️ Feels 30° 86° 29° 85° AQI 34 ✈️15h $4,598 / mo 🌇 Also went here27 people ×
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