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| ⭐️ Total score | 208 reviews |
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| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
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| 🌍 Continent | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | China |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Xining is fast averaging 16 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~2 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌫 1°C 34°F + 😊 Comfy (44%) = feels 0°C 0°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 87 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 85 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | China Mobile |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.56 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 156 |
| 💸 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 | 850,000 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 | $1,353 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $956 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,747 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $785 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $501 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $78 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $860 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $40 / night |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median from 114 listings) | $1,105 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $36 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
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| Feels | 0° freezing | 373° cold | 489° cold | 6317° cool | 6418° cool | 7021° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5412° cool | 468° cold | 30-1° freezing |
| Real | 320° freezing | 384° very cold | 489° cold | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 6720° mild | 7222° mild | 7222° mild | 6317° cool | 5412° cool | 468° cold | 30-1° freezing |
| Humidity | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 38% | nice 38% | nice 51% | nice 70% | nice 69% | nice 70% | damp 71% | nice 63% | nice 47% | nice 35% |
| Rain | dry 4mm | dry 2mm | dry 3mm | dry 14mm | dry 25mm | rainy 177mm | dry 47mm | rainy 51mm | dry 45mm | dry 25mm | dry 3mm | dry 2mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 51% | cloudy 58% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 53% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 79% | cloudy 56% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 55% | cloudy 64% | pockets 47% | pockets 22% |
| Air quality | bad 153 US AQI | bad 138 US AQI | bad 121 US AQI | bad 120 US AQI | bad 107 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 88 US AQI | okay 77 US AQI | okay 83 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | bad 141 US AQI | bad 160 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI |
| Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 188😷✈️56min$1,307 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 189😷✈️56min$791 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 2° 36° 4° 39°AQI 63✈️1h$1,525 / mo1MbpsI lived in Chongqing for about 5 years. I mostly love this place but it's not easy for Westerners unless you can speak some Chinese. But with a smartphone you can translate anything you need to say. Chongqing is beautiful, gritty and romantic. Extremely inexpensive and lots of things to do. Beautiful women. Maybe the most unique city in China. Weather terrible in winter and summer. Winter is foggy, rainy and low light while summers are uncomfortably hot and humid. They don't speak standard Manda
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 177😷✈️1h$1,137 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 8° 46° 8° 47°AQI 213😷✈️1h$1,087 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️1h$1,505 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 13° 55° 13° 55°AQI 162😷✈️1h$1,687 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 15° 59° 15° 58°AQI 158😷✈️1h$599 / mo2Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 7° 45° 7° 44°AQI 170😷✈️1h$2,734 / mo1Mbps⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 144😷✈️1h$1,019 / mo2MbpsDefinitely 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 29° 84° 26° 79°🥵AQI 46✈️3h$972 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleDefinitely 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.
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 32° 90° 29° 84°AQI 87😷✈️3h$1,294 / mo🌇 Also went here3 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 12° 54° 12° 54°AQI 34✈️4h$2,968 / mo🌇 Also went here3 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
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ✈️10h$4,442 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleParis is wonderful, and I love it here, but the stereotypes some real truth to them. I stepped off the plane to a protest, my airbnb host was incredibly stylish yet didn't wear deoderant, and I met the rudest waiter I've ever encountered in my entire life on day 3 (though most Parisians are super nice!)
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 4° 40°AQI 22✈️10h$4,079 / mo🌇 Also went here2 people⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 6✈️10h$4,943 / mo🌇 Also went here2 peopleThe city is very expensive and has gotten extremely dangerous since COVID lockdown. If you can, stay somewhere outside the city, but somewhere along the 'Dart' train line. Best coffee is in 'The Green Bench' but there's no seating there really so don't expect to do some work. Best restaurant is 'Belli Dentro' just south of the city centre. In terms of Internet, you can get an unlimited data call plan for 9.99 from 48 (online registration) though it will take a few days for them to post to you.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 4° 39° 6° 43°AQI 1✈️10h$4,353 / mo🌇 Also went here2 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 3° 37° 4° 40°AQI 115😷✈️15h$4,905 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
