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| ⭐️ Total score | 210 reviews |
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| 👌 Safety | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| ✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| 🏥 Healthcare* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| ⏱ Average trip length | 18 days |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 30°C 87°F + 🥵 Sweaty (84%) = feels 38°C 100°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 30 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 71 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.50 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 150 |
| 💸 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 |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,090,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 20,890 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 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 | $2,036 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,379 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,848 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $814 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $431 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $75 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,167 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $55 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 1,001 listings) | $2,461 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $81 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $5 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $5 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 6317° cool | 7021° mild | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 9334° hot | 10038° hot | 10440° hot | 10641° scorching | 10239° hot | 9032° hot | 7323° mild | 6619° mild |
| Real | 6317° cool | 6820° mild | 6820° mild | 7323° mild | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 7323° mild | 6619° mild |
| Humidity | nice 67% | nice 72% | nice 75% | nice 73% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 82% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 75% | nice 68% | nice 67% | nice 67% |
| Rain | dry 3mm | dry 46mm | dry 34mm | rainy 54mm | rainy 158mm | rainy 148mm | rainy 98mm | rainy 238mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 55mm | dry 15mm | dry 41mm |
| Cloud | pockets 28% | pockets 23% | cloudy 51% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 81% | overcast 93% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 82% | pockets 40% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 54% | cloudy 53% |
| Air quality | okay 86 US AQI | okay 85 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | okay 89 US AQI | okay 80 US AQI | okay 61 US AQI | okay 62 US AQI | okay 70 US AQI | okay 71 US AQI | okay 81 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 73 US AQI |
| Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
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Locals smoke everywhere, all the time, including inside hospitals and schools. This is illegal in Taiwan, but not enforced in Kinmen. Traffic safety is awful. The police will not investigate traffic incidents and people responsible are not held accountable. This county is not female-friendly. Women are expected to marry and have children/ be seen and not herd. Don't be deceived by female school principals and county official. They have no authority over the men in lower ranks. Pollution today is
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 41° 106° 32° 89°🥵AQI 13✈️22min$1,873 / mo16MbpsGreat city in Southern Taiwan on a major port. Lots of stuff to do if you like the outdoors. A mountain to climb, a beach to go to, and trains and buses readily available to go to surrounding outdoor activities. Cons: English speaking is not great, but the locals are. And even if you don't speak Mandarin they will do their best to help you. Plenty of English speaking doctors, dentists etc. Most restaurants have a double menu. So it's not that big of a con and there are many classes that will h
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 42° 108° 33° 91°🥵AQI 19✈️24min$1,152 / mo28MbpsDefinitely check out The Key (on near Zhong Xiao Dun Hua station) if living here for more than a month. Cafe + Gym + Bar all in one, monthly membership about $50 USD. English-friendly, no contracts. Made my 3 month stay here immensely better with fast wifi in the cafe and it's a great feeling to be able to work out immediately after working.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 33° 91°🥵AQI 15✈️28min$2,085 / mo24Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 28° 83°🥵AQI 42✈️34min$1,301 / moShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 43° 109° 33° 91°🥵AQI 15✈️28min$2,085 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleHong Kong is a great city with dense urban areas but also nature and hiking routes only 15 minutes away. There are restaurants for every taste and budget, from the best US fast casual chains to high end Michelin star restaurants. It's also extremely safe, despite recent political instability.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 8✈️37min$2,400 / mo🌇 Also went here8 peopleShanghai is a giant city and your experience really depends on a few factors like: 1) where you live in the city 2) do you speak basic Mandarin 3) do you make nice money 4) do you have to use the internet If you can afford to live in Jing'an or the French Concession, you can live a fashionable metropolitan lifestyle like you would in New York City. There's amazing food (Asian, Western and fusion). You'll be surrounded by entrepreneurs, artists, fashion designers and models. Many of whom d
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 43° 109° 33° 92°🥵AQI 25✈️1h$1,858 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleI've been living for a year in Itaewon-dong, Seoul back in 2015 when i was 22 years old. It was one of the best year of my life, i made lifelong friends overthere. Great culture, great food, great people. The cons : no beach, ultra-capitalist environment, big city life downside (transportation, prices etc...)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 21✈️2h$2,155 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleDefinitely an underrated place for nomads - Huge city with a small town feel. Lots of different neighborhoods to appeal to different types of people: some commercial, some hipstery, some historical, some modern. Food and rent is cheap (and the food is damn good). People are very friendly as compared to other big Asian cities. You can also get easy work as a tutor and make good extra cash. I survived for five months tutoring and doing other English related work for max 12 hrs a week (leaving me
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 33° 91° 29° 84°AQI 17✈️3h$2,096 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI cannot help but agree with the review from the person before me. I'm finishing my 3 weeks trip here, and something feels off. Like that person put it rightly, everything is for sale, and nothing has value. There is no soul to this city and its people, locals or otherwise. Something is wrong here.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 59✈️3h$1,265 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleTokyo has so much to offer and so much to do. It is easily overwhelming. Whereas I usually take my first week to explore a place Tokyo’s sights just kept on going. I remember ending up in a hidden cocktail bar, a mexican rooftop party with 1 meter margaritas, spending a whole day going only to French places(?), visiting a store that only imported 2nd hand hiphop apparel, and throughout it all the best michelin star ramen. It just seemed endless, completely unrelated and incredibly fun. Six wee
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 40° 104° 33° 91°🥵AQI 59✈️3h$3,069 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peoplePutrajaya is the only place I would recommend due to its close proximity to the airport. The Shaftsbury Hotel is modern with two convenience stores, pharmacy, restaurants, dental, and more in the actual building. There is a rain fountain in "mall" of the building that would be Putrajaya's attempt at Singapore's airport one. The location is also literally right across from the bigger mall that has restaurants, international grocery store, movie theater, bowling, electronics, etc. It's a safe a
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 53✈️4h$1,301 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleLike everywhere, Singapore has pros and cons. // Pros: // Everything works very well, it's clean, you can use the trains and transport system with a bank card, Grab taxis are efficient and safe, the airport is amazing // Everyone speaks English // Population seems well educated and cosmopolitan // There are lots of parks and green spaces. // Cons: // It's very expensive. For what you get it feels overpriced compared to most Western countries for example. // It's hot and very, very humid. Unti
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°AQI 13✈️4h$3,691 / mo🌇 Also went here6 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 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 32° 90° 30° 87°🥵AQI 30✈️12h$1,044 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 50✈️12h$3,912 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleA top city. Everything works, beautiful greenery (hehe), cycling everywhere, happy people, great nightlife... Lots to love about. For nomads? Not a chance. Price of housing is outrageous, and the city is expensive af. They charge you 4.5-5 eur for a capuccino, completely shameless. An hour of public transport is 3 euros. I could go on and on. I'd love to live there, but it's not worth it.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 32✈️12h$5,930 / mo🌇 Also went here6 peopleRome has tourist fatigue. Servers are curt and it's hard to find a decent restaurant.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 32° 90°🥵AQI 50✈️13h$4,770 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleI've lived in New York City - Brooklyn - for over 20 years. For visiting tourists, the best neighborhood to stay in is NOT Bushwick. Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Ft. Green or Brooklyn Heights is preferable. Plenty of good transportation in those areas - subway, buses or Uber. Easy access to beaches in Long Island and New Jersey. There's plenty to do in NYC. Great restaurants, Broadway plays (!), and in the summer you frequently can catch a free concert.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 33° 91° 30° 85°🥵AQI 19✈️17h$5,660 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
