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| ⭐️ Total score | 28 reviews |
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| 😝 Fun | |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Indonesia |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 15 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌧 29°C 85°F + 🥵 Sweaty (73%) = feels 33°C 91°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 60 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 100,000 IDR in USD | USD 6.59 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | IDR 1,000,000 = USD 66 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 7.50% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Meeting Point |
| ☕️ Best alt. coffee place | Green Leaf Cafe |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 6,238,300 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 119,557 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 10,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $3,570 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 88% 👱♀️ 12% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Tokopedia |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Singapore Airlines |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Clinic Amed Bali |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,385 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,175 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,195 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $913 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $545 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,212 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $903 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $26 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $40 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $268 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
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| Humidity |
sweaty 86% |
sweaty 85% |
sweaty 83% |
sweaty 78% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 80% |
sweaty 76% |
sweaty 78% |
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sweaty 79% |
sweaty 83% |
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| Rain |
rainy 419mm |
rainy 327mm |
rainy 251mm |
rainy 94mm |
dry 42mm |
rainy 76mm |
dry 20mm |
dry 41mm |
rainy 81mm |
rainy 54mm |
rainy 311mm |
rainy 240mm |
| Cloud |
overcast 97% |
cloudy 90% |
cloudy 82% |
cloudy 54% |
cloudy 64% |
cloudy 63% |
pockets 48% |
cloudy 55% |
cloudy 66% |
cloudy 71% |
overcast 93% |
cloudy 85% |
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I really liked Chiang Mai but I can't put my finger on why. I'll try to remain unbiased so here goes. Chiang Mai is a dirty place with horrible pollution levels. English speaking is okay. I did really enjoy a balance of simple, risk-free living at low cost and acceptable quality of living. Many places only accept cash but plenty accept card. There's lots to do and it's fun exploring on a moped/motorbike. It feels as easy as Canggu with more modern appointments to get by as a westerner a bit easi
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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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Nomading here is tough because there are no reasonable Airbnbs and finding a short-term apt is difficult. You have to ask yourself, is it worth coming to Barcelona? It's probably the dirtiest city in Spain, and a bit sketchy. There's more beautiful and cleaner cities like Seville where you can find a reasonably priced Airbnb.
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