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| ⭐️ Total score | 170 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🙊 English speaking* | |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Laos |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 7 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | ☀️ 33°C 91°F + 🌵 Too dry (25%) = feels 31°C 88°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 162 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 34 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 100,000 LAK in USD | USD 4.80 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LAK 10,000,000 = USD 480 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Toh Lao |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe France |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 10% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 210,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,339 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 82% 👱♀️ 18% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | ImmoLaos |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Asia |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $711 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $836 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,614 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $461 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $474 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $519 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $22 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $77 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $1 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $0 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | 0 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $0.00 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | 0 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | 0 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very dry air now
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 7926° warm | 8228° warm | 9032° hot | 9133° hot | 9535° hot | 8630° warm | 8630° warm | 9032° hot | 8630° warm | 8429° warm | 8228° warm | 7926° warm |
| Real | 8027° warm | 8429° very warm | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8932° hot | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8127° warm |
| Humidity | nice 30% | too dry 29% | too dry 27% | nice 33% | nice 34% | nice 41% | nice 42% | nice 40% | nice 43% | nice 40% | nice 34% | nice 32% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain | dry 1mm | dry 16mm | dry 38mm | rainy 78mm | rainy 235mm | rainy 314mm | rainy 361mm | rainy 376mm | rainy 307mm | rainy 107mm | dry 21mm | dry 1mm |
| Cloud | pockets 12% | pockets 15% | pockets 23% | pockets 47% | pockets 47% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 55% | pockets 47% | pockets 33% | pockets 19% |
| Air quality | bad 110 US AQI | clean 34* US AQI | clean 34* US AQI | clean 34* US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | okay 63 US AQI | okay 65 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | bad 116 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI |
| Remote workers | 618 people | 475 people | 325 people | 275 people | 375 people | 560 people | 200 people | 343 people | 300 people | 420 people | 511 people | 420 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 33° 92°🥵AQI 11✈️1h$1,000 / mo🌇 Also went here73 peopleSaigon has some nice areas with good apartments and nature e.g. central park, golden river, empire city. Rest of the city more or less sucks, too much traffic, pollution and noise. Overall pretty meh, no real reason to visit or live there.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 32° 90°🥵✈️1h$1,074 / mo🌇 Also went here92 peopleIt's getting better. I came here just before the Chinese New Year, and the city was very lively. Lots of people, live music, etc. The decorations in the shopping mall were beautiful, and there were so many food options that it would take a year to try them all.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 67😷✈️2h$1,317 / mo🌇 Also went here98 peopleSo… 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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°✈️2h$3,952 / mo🌇 Also went here103 peopleWas here in Mid-2023. Bali has completely changed from when I last visited in 2017. Full of arrogant influences and degenerate party people who are entitled and have no respect for the locals. Many Uber drivers told me they are starting to get annoyed because a lot of Westerners don’t respect anything…. Pollution and traffic are on the rise. It is turning into Kuta. Probably one of the least walkable places, forget walking on the sidewalk unless you want to get taken out. A lot of accidents
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 31° 88° 28° 83°AQI 50✈️4h$1,927 / mo🌇 Also went here63 peopleStayed for 2 weeks after almost a year n a half in LatAm. Beautiful city; great food options- especially for Asian food lovers. Plenty of authentic Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese options for about 50% of what you would pay in a Western city. Decent hostels will cost $11-$15 weekdays and between $18-$30 on weekends.... Good internet; beautiful architecture and people but it is true Hungarians can be very cold at times. Overall a good stay with many destinations just a quick and cheap flight/tr
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 51°AQI 51😷✈️11h$2,283 / mo🌇 Also went here65 peopleLived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 2° 36° 4° 39°AQI 67😷✈️11h$2,765 / mo🌇 Also went here62 peopleI'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.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌨 Feels 2° 36° 4° 39°AQI 63😷✈️11h$3,933 / mo🌇 Also went here73 peopleI 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”.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 11° 52° 12° 54°AQI 53😷✈️12h$5,152 / mo🌇 Also went here66 peopleI 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 👍 Liked 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 9° 48° 10° 50°AQI 59😷✈️12h$5,616 / mo🌇 Also went here80 people
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