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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 167 reviews |
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| 😄 Happiness | |
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| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🙊 English speaking | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBT friendly | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Region | Asia | |
| 🚩 Country | China | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 3 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌫 2°C 35°F + 💦 Humid (63%) + 💨 2km/h = Feels like 2°C 36°F | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😷 141 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 / day | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😷 213 US AQI equal to 🚬 🚬 🚬 / day | |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile | |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.44 | |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: CNY 1,000 | USD 144 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% of visitors return | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 850,000 people | |
| 👫 Gender ratio | 👨 53% 👱♀️ 47% | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Ganji | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Hainan | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | China Southern Airlines | |
😷 Air quality in Xining is very bad (141 US AQI) today: avoid exercising outdoors, close windows and try to stay inside, more info | ||
| no-beachairportcoldcold nowdirty airbad air qualityslow internetcheap cost of livinglow crimehigh humiditymany men | ||
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $1,304 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $900 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,532 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $723 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $461 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $72 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $898 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $42 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (143 listings) | $1,096 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $36 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $2 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $2 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
Based on Xining's cost of living, here's selected remote jobs that would cover your costs:
 | Lead UI UX Designer @ Packet Fabric |
 | User Experience Designer @ ORCID |
 | Sr UI Engineer / TypeScript / React @ Accord |
I lived and worked (at a law firm) in Chengdu for about 3 months. I absolutely loved the city! It's
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🎒 Nomad 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 8° 46° 9° 49°AQI 66✈️10h$4,052 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Bad air quality year round
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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