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| ⭐️ Overall score | 226 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip time | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Qingdao is fast averaging 16 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~2 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 24°C 75°F + 😊 Comfy (80%) = feels 24°C 75°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 35 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 73 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Unicom |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.55 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 155 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Stabucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 730,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 13,990 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,700,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Shandong Airlines |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Qingdao Municipal Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,572 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,167 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,649 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $471 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $387 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $68 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $923 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $43 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (625 listings) | $2,648 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $87 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 373° cold | 415° cold | 5010° cold | 5513° cool | 7021° mild | 7524° warm | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 8228° warm | 7021° mild | 5915° cool | 415° cold |
| Real | 415° very cold | 436° very cold | 5211° cool | 5714° cool | 6820° mild | 7524° warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8027° warm | 6820° mild | 5915° cool | 457° cold |
| Humidity | nice 32% | nice 43% | nice 46% | nice 56% | nice 50% | nice 67% | nice 69% | nice 65% | nice 55% | nice 49% | nice 44% | nice 49% |
| Rain | dry 7mm | dry 7mm | dry 13mm | dry 30mm | dry 15mm | dry 29mm | dry 42mm | dry 45mm | dry 6mm | dry 7mm | dry 13mm | dry 9mm |
| Cloud | pockets 35% | cloudy 70% | pockets 33% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 57% | cloudy 65% | pockets 49% | pockets 49% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 55% | pockets 45% | pockets 27% |
| Air quality | bad 122 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | okay 86 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 75 US AQI | okay 58 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 87 US AQI | bad 104 US AQI | bad 126 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 267 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 800 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 38✈️6h$2,860 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleCool city with lots of fun places to go out, very nice restaurants and quite an international environment. I went there twice already and in winter it's horribly cold, while in summer it's super hot. Definitely recommend going there in Spring/Autumn. The castle is nice and Danube riverside is great too, you'll get lots of things to do. Can recommend Nomad Traveller's Bar and there daily pubcrawl! Also, to all fellow vegans, the food scene is great. Lot's of places order vegan options and if you
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 23° 73° 23° 74°AQI 30✈️11h$1,558 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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 21° 70° 20° 67°AQI 28✈️11h$3,080 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleI visited Prague on more than one occasion and tried something new each time. I really wanted to enjoy it, but unfortunately it turned out to be one of my least favourite cities. Perhaps it was just me, but there was an overwhelming sense of distrust and dislike towards foreigners, you have to try pretty hard to blend in if you want to experience the life of a local & avoid the tourism. I met some wonderful people and and there’s some cool communities to be part of, but another extended stay
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 21° 70° 21° 69°AQI 55✈️11h$2,278 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 15✈️12h$4,294 / mo🌇 Also went here8 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 18° 64° 17° 63°AQI 28✈️13h$5,687 / mo🌇 Also went here10 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 22° 72° 22° 72°AQI 107😷✈️15h$5,111 / mo🌇 Also went here10 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
