⭐️ Total score | 2.61/5 (Rank #786) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Okay |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 🧐 Too expensive: $4,152 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🚀 Super fast: 76Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥶 Too cold: 5°C40°F (feels 4°C39°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 💦 Damp: 76% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 36 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 24 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very high: $4,817 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Great |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Bad |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Good |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Okay |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | North America |
🚩 Country | United States |
⏱ Average trip length | 9 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 76 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 5°C 40°F + 💦 Damp (76%) = feels 4°C 39°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 36 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 24.5 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 450,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 47% 👱♀️ 53% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | American Airlines |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | United Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,152 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,398 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $5,983 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $1,709 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,016 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $7,329 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,340 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $94 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $240 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $235 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $4 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $6 |
☕️ Coffee | $6 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 415° cold | 373° cold | 5211° cool | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 8429° warm | 9937° hot | 9535° hot | 8228° warm | 7323° mild | 5513° cool | 5412° cool |
Real | 457° cold | 426° very cold | 5412° cool | 6217° cool | 6820° mild | 7926° warm | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 7323° mild | 5714° cool | 5513° cool |
Humidity | damp 76% | damp 83% | nice 69% | damp 72% | nice 71% | nice 86% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 84% | nice 75% | nice 76% | nice 66% | damp 81% |
Rain | rainy 110mm | rainy 191mm | rainy 53mm | rainy 84mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 129mm | rainy 81mm | rainy 153mm | rainy 73mm | rainy 70mm | dry 30mm | rainy 50mm |
Cloud | pockets 43% | cloudy 77% | pockets 40% | pockets 38% | pockets 42% | pockets 47% | pockets 32% | pockets 42% | pockets 29% | pockets 47% | pockets 30% | pockets 45% |
Air quality | clean 26 US AQI | clean 26 US AQI | clean 23 US AQI | clean 24 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 29 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 21 US AQI | clean 27 US AQI | clean 28 US AQI |
Sun | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 267 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 300 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 59✈️5h$6,903 / mo70Mbps×Loved this city! It is not big although has great nightlife, coworkings, amazing streetart and is quite cheap. Although, when I visited in December 2021 they had problems with garbage removal.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun good👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 36° 97° 29° 84°🥵AQI 46✈️21h$5,032 / mo102Mbps×Just returned after 1mo in Madrid. From a Male 35 year old perspective, I loved it. Endless night life, techno clubs, dive bars, live music, open jam sessions if that's your thing. If you're feeling lonely hit up Meetup and you'll find plenty of international meetups/pub crawls. Retiro park is green and huge when you need a break from the city. It's dense with tons of people from all walks of life. Multi-cultural population, students, professionals, travelers, English is spoken well my most loca
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun mediocre👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌫 Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 67✈️3h$4,850 / mo🌇 Also went here8 people×I spent 4 months working here during summertime. It's one of the best summers I have ever had in my life. The city is just amazing and offers dozens of outdoor activities. There are so many different places such as parks, lakes, hills, mountains, beaches, etc. Also, you can feel the Californication vibe on every step. I lived in Hollywood and I would avoid this place at any cost. It's just too overrated and won't meet your expectations. Hollywood (esp. West Hollywood) is a big pile of dirtiness
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🚀 Super fast😀 Fun great👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 10° 50° 11° 52°AQI 38✈️8h$5,294 / mo🌇 Also went here12 people×Lived there last September and October and am coming back later this year. Yes, it is expensive, but after a while I learned about affordable places to eat and realized I could choose neighborhoods farther from city center, and it would still be nice. City feels super safe, even at nigh! Internet is crazy fast (I got 500mb on my airbnb) there are tons to do and see and I did not encounter the super rude Parisians people talk so much about, mostly everyone spoke English and were very polite. Rent
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