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| ⭐️ Total score | 6 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* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 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 |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 1 Mbps ⚠️ Internet in Zhengzhou is fast averaging 8 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~1 Mbps. |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 8°C 46°F + 😊 Comfy (60%) = feels 6°C 43°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👎☠️ 180 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎☠️ 103.5 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.47 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 147 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
| 🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 9,900,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 15x15m (225m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) | 👨 54% 👱♀️ 46% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Sublet |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Southern |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air China |
| 🏥 Best hospital | First Affiliated University Hospital |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,369 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $841 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,835 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $524 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,126 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,088 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $466 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $53 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $36 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $149 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Warm in the spring
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Good hospitals
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ Unusably slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Bad air quality today
❌ 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 | 436° cold | 5412° cool | 5915° cool | 6820° mild | 8127° warm | 9937° hot | 10038° hot | 9133° hot | 8429° warm | 6619° mild | 6116° cool | 489° cold |
| Real | 457° cold | 5513° cool | 5915° cool | 6619° mild | 8127° warm | 9234° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm | 6418° cool | 6116° cool | 5010° cold |
| Humidity | nice 32% | nice 41% | nice 61% | nice 54% | nice 43% | nice 50% | sweaty 73% | sweaty 74% | nice 78% | nice 65% | nice 46% | nice 31% |
| Rain | dry 3mm | dry 48mm | dry 23mm | dry 37mm | dry 31mm | dry 45mm | rainy 307mm | rainy 222mm | rainy 287mm | dry 42mm | dry 13mm | dry 7mm |
| Cloud | pockets 47% | pockets 37% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 61% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 69% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 59% | cloudy 75% | pockets 41% | pockets 32% |
| Air quality | bad 190 US AQI | bad 172 US AQI | bad 153 US AQI | bad 143 US AQI | bad 129 US AQI | bad 105 US AQI | okay 95 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 102 US AQI | bad 118 US AQI | bad 159 US AQI | bad 156 US AQI |
| Sun | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 7 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI |
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 38° 100° 29° 83°🥵AQI 64✈️6h$2,084 / mo🌇 Also went here3 peopleWhat can I say that hasn't already been said? Canggu has so much energy and excitement. I think that's partly due to the cost of living plus the weather. People are very nice here but expect general life for the locals to revolve around tourism. You're not going to get an authentic Indonesian cultural experience. It's definitely not perfect and not an easy place to live but considering how cheap it is what can you expect? I think the pros outweigh the cons and cons are plentiful (dirty, cash soc
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⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 3° 37° 5° 41°AQI 50✈️11h$6,857 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleLived 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
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 5° 41° 6° 42°AQI 33✈️11h$5,442 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleLas Vegas is a great tourist destination for me personally. The strip contains every amenities that I need and also there is a lot of stuff to do there without going away from the strip. Las Vegas is inside of a desert so expect it to be really hot in the summer. Otherwise than that, the strip located in Vegas has many things to do, from going to concerts, fancy restaurants, gambling (if that's your thing), attractions (stratosphere, high roller), entertainments, and so many more things to do th
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 14° 57° 14° 56°AQI 34✈️14h$5,607 / mo🌇 Also went here4 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 5° 41° 6° 42°AQI 45✈️15h$6,299 / mo🌇 Also went here5 peopleAll in, Austin is a good city. We live in Hill Country now so we're a bit removed. But it's beautiful area once you get away from the highways. A good tech scene. Not too expensive (~$2100 for a nice 2 bedroom apt) for the U.S. Has wineries and breweries galore. Not a great place if you are a recovering alcoholic (!). Cons: extremely hot in the summer; reaches 110 F (43.3 C) in summer afternoons from June - September. Not very diverse. Highways are loud and obnoxious.
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 19° 66° 19° 67°AQI 34✈️16h$4,816 / mo🌇 Also went here3 people👍 👍 Malls are fucking awesome, free wifi + free coworking spaces, toilets cleaner than Europe/ASEAN 👍 Public transport is pretty good 👎 Foods are a bit bland compared to ASEAN and Mexico 👎 👎 Safety, lots of racist/xenophobic catcalling on the street especially when I am an Asian. "Oi Chino Chino!" -- something I didn't get in other latam countries
⭐️ All 💵 Cost 📡 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 28° 82° 26° 79°AQI 85😷✈️20h$1,517 / mo🌇 Also went here4 peopleNo members are here right now. If you are, add it as a trip and you'll show up here!
