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| ⭐️ Overall score | 212 reviews |
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| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Changsha is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 26°C 80°F + 😊 Comfy (83%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 85 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 103 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 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 coworking space | Regus |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,274 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $893 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,099 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $885 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $582 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $78 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $774 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $36 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (1 listings) | $366 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $12 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 415° cold | 415° cold | 6317° cool | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 9334° hot | 11144° scorching | 11144° scorching | 9334° hot | 7222° mild | 7021° mild | 5211° cool |
| Real | 436° very cold | 447° cold | 6116° cool | 7222° mild | 7725° warm | 8228° very warm | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 8630° very warm | 7222° mild | 6820° mild | 5211° cool |
| Humidity | damp 81% | damp 83% | damp 80% | nice 83% | nice 83% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 91% | sweaty 75% | nice 68% | nice 74% | nice 63% | damp 73% |
| Rain | dry 24mm | dry 40mm | rainy 75mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 87mm | rainy 118mm | rainy 97mm | dry 38mm | dry 17mm | dry 23mm | dry 17mm | dry 29mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 70% | cloudy 86% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 78% | cloudy 64% | pockets 42% | pockets 17% | pockets 46% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 75% |
| Air quality | bad 164 US AQI | bad 152 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 124 US AQI | bad 109 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 78 US AQI | okay 84 US AQI | bad 103 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 152 US AQI | bad 161 US AQI |
| Sun | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | sunscreen 5 UVI | safe 3 UVI |
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