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| ⭐️ Total score | 4 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Hospitals | |
| 😄 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 | China |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 35°C 95°F + 😊 Comfy (55%) = feels 43°C 109°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 53 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 103 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.41 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 141 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 2,100,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 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 | $3,387 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,648 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $3,065 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $876 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,409 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $7,228 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,065 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $66 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $237 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $182 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $4 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality today
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Too expensive
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ 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 |
50
10° cold |
55
13° cool |
59
15° cool |
63
17° cool |
75
24° warm |
97
36° hot |
111
44° scorching |
118
48° scorching |
104
40° hot |
68
20° mild |
64
18° cool |
55
13° cool |
| Real |
50
10°
cold |
56
14°
cool |
59
15°
cool |
62
17°
cool |
75
24°
warm |
85
30°
very warm |
90
32°
hot |
90
32°
hot |
89
32°
hot |
66
19°
mild |
63
17°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 64% |
damp 89% |
damp 92% |
damp 95% |
nice 91% |
sweaty 81% |
sweaty 79% |
sweaty 89% |
sweaty 72% |
nice 78% |
nice 66% |
nice 61% |
| Rain |
dry 27mm |
rainy 114mm |
rainy 145mm |
rainy 189mm |
rainy 282mm |
rainy 153mm |
rainy 139mm |
rainy 168mm |
dry 38mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 65mm |
dry 30mm |
| Cloud |
cloudy 51% |
cloudy 73% |
overcast 95% |
overcast 98% |
overcast 92% |
cloudy 86% |
cloudy 85% |
cloudy 86% |
pockets 39% |
cloudy 88% |
cloudy 69% |
cloudy 63% |
| 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 |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
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avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 8 UVI |
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seek shade 4 UVI |
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I agree with the +- list posted a few years ago here. Beautiful city in different ways, cheaper than Western EU, beautiful people. Restaurants are understaffed and have terrible service, at least in Old Town. First thing on the menu at Van Gogh is "all our staff are trainees, please be patient" even, so not sure what happened that places are struggling. Activity wise it doesn't seem like it has much, but there are nice parks and walking through the city with the architecture is something to beh
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How the f is this city in the #1 spot for europe? Is the Warsaw city council paying for the spot? I spent a month here mostly to help during the ukraine refugee crisis. This was the most meh city I've visited in my life. People are incredibly cold. They have this attitude (I was about to write slavic, but actually I've been to other slavic countries and they've been really friendly, so I don't want to bunch them together) kind of a cold indifference, but you can never tell if they're purposeful
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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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I've been to ~70 countries. Porto is my favorite city in the world. The people, the people, the people! It's the perfect size, well connected airport, vibrant and happening, amazing blend of locals and expats, and much cheaper than Lisbon. Looking to call this place home.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 22° 72° 22° 72° AQI 30 ✈️14h $3,082 / mo 🌇 Also went here2 people
It rains way too much. I visited in August 2022 and it rained every day. Most days were overcast and you rarely saw the sun. It's overcast all day - from sunup to sundown. I can't wait to leave. I thought Florida was rainy and overcast, but it's much worse here. It's overcast and rainy 8 months out of the year, whereas Florida is only rainy and overcast 4 months our of the year. It's a great city, but the rain just killed it for me.
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I've moved here permanently. Kids are in an elite school for $600pm, and I'm the only non-Colombian parent. I'm surprised there aren't more foreigners. Going to Gringo Tuesdays is a very touristy thing, I only ever went once everyone is 25 and trying to get laid basically, and its P$11,000 a beer, my local pub sells beer for $P2,000 by comparison. The longer you are here the more you discover. The "centre" of the city is really from 83rd-93rd-115th roughly, 83rd has loads of great clubs and rest
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