⭐️ Total score | 2.71/5 (Rank #147) |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍67% liked it 👎33% disliked it |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😝 Cheap: $924 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🙂 Good: 16Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 35°C95°F (feels 49°C120°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 68% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 9 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
🤮 Food safety* | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $181 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
😄 Happiness* | Bad |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Okay |
🖥 Places to work from | Bad |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Great |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Bad |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Bad |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | Vietnam |
🗓️ Average trip length | 3 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 16 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 35°C 95°F + 😊 Comfy (68%) = feels 49°C 120°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 9 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Grab |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 100,000 VND in USD | USD 3.93 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | VND 10,000,000 = USD 393 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
💻 Best coworking space | CoPLUS |
☕️ Best coffee place | The One Coffee & Bakery |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 👎1% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 460,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,171 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 82% 👱♀️ 18% |
⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
💻 Online electronics shop | Nguyen Kim |
🏠 Apartment listings | VN Renting |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | VietJet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Vietnam Airlines |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $924 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $787 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,066 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $590 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $347 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $943 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $548 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $16 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $31 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $144 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $1 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $1 |
👩🏫 International school | $9,292 / year |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Very cheap to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to make friends
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Not much to do
❌ Too hot in the summer
❌ Nomad List members didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 8127° warm | 8228° warm | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 8630° warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild |
Real | 7021° mild | 7323° mild | 8127° warm | 8228° very warm | 9032° hot | 9334° hot | 9133° hot | 9234° hot | 8630° very warm | 8127° warm | 7725° warm | 7323° mild |
Humidity | nice 43% | nice 41% | nice 41% | nice 40% | nice 36% | nice 33% | nice 34% | nice 35% | nice 41% | nice 45% | nice 44% | nice 43% |
Most common | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain | ☔️ Rain |
Rain | rainy 167mm | dry 36mm | rainy 65mm | dry 45mm | rainy 79mm | rainy 52mm | rainy 59mm | rainy 88mm | rainy 383mm | rainy 484mm | rainy 458mm | rainy 354mm |
Cloud | cloudy 58% | pockets 29% | pockets 32% | pockets 34% | pockets 40% | cloudy 52% | pockets 46% | cloudy 50% | cloudy 52% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 64% |
Sun | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI |
Remote workers | 300 people | 440 people | 333 people | 320 people | 240 people | 233 people | 200 people | 200 people | 360 people | 267 people | 267 people | 343 people |
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 44° 111° 33° 91°🥵AQI 67😷✈️44min$901 / mo7Mbps×Wasn't a huge fan of Mui Ne. Looks like most of the place is catering to Russian midrange tourists. The sand dunes are pretty cool, make sure to visit them, but wear covering clothes in order to not get badly sunburned.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 50° 122° 36° 97°🥵AQI 6✈️51min$1,017 / mo52Mbps×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌧 Feels 43° 109° 32° 90°🥵✈️49min$992 / mo15Mbps×Da Nang is a fantastic city, with all the amenities that you could wish for. From great beaches to beautiful mountains arund. Next to this, the Vietnamese fantastic is just fantastic. Happy to also have found Coworking Danang which offers a great vibe and community in the city. Can totally recommend!
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⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 50° 122° 36° 97°🥵AQI 6✈️51min$1,017 / mo🌇 Also went here81 people×This city is not for everyone, if you like shopping malls and big crowded cities it is for you. It may be cheap but if you want to live in a good location with swimming pool, go to nice rooftops and restaurants, use taxis then it is similar cost to western countries. In many areas there are no sidewalks, big and dangerous traffic all the time, pollution, taxis do not want to go with meter, it can get really hot. Definitely try to live by the metro. Many foreigners, mostly friendly people, cheap
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 45° 113° 35° 95°🥵AQI 57😷✈️1h$1,338 / mo🌇 Also went here68 people×Chiang Mai has had a deep Buddhist influence running over the last 1,000 years and this can be felt in the helpfulness, patience and generosity of the Thai and long-term transplants you come across. The city has an active community scene (nomads, spiritual seekers, hikers, creatives), several mountains with hiking spots and waterfalls surrounding the city, over 20 water bodies inside the city -- many have cafes and walks around, several public parks, and over 13 national parks with campgrounds w
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😝 Cheap📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 38° 100° 30° 86°🥵AQI 13✈️1h$966 / mo🌇 Also went here56 people×Lived in Phuket for a year now. Amazing place, especially the Bang Tao area. The further you go up north, the more beautiful it gets. Amazing beaches, beach clubs, restaurants and people. Patong is nice for a few days, but if you're not into partying just stay away. A lot of police check on the roads around Patong (and accidents), so always bring your international license. You can make it as expensive (or cheap) as you want, if you eat local like I do a meal is around 60 - 120 baht. Stay away
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 43° 109° 32° 89°🥵✈️2h$1,527 / mo🌇 Also went here37 people×The other reviews are right—it's a good city with excellent value for money. The people are nice enough. The infrastructure is good. You *should* like it, but you don't—it's incredibly, incomprehensibly boring. The vibe is aggressively lukewarm. You will find more excitement in a rural Japanese village than here—I'm not joking.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety mediocreTap to open🌥 Feels 30° 86° 26° 78°🥵AQI 54😷✈️2h$1,220 / mo🌇 Also went here55 people×So… amazing food. Great public transportation. Very clean. But very conformist. Self expression limited. The irony of seeing an exhibit on graffiti, yet no actual graffiti in the streets. And the causal racism especially if you’re brown. You could be British born but still expect to be sat far away from everyone else at cocktail bars, experience comments and have weird assumptions made.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety greatTap to open🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 85°🥵✈️2h$4,168 / mo🌇 Also went here48 people×Spent 10 months here in 2019 (Nyuh Kuning) and another 10 mo in 2023 (Penestanan). Worked at Outpost, which had reliable internet and organized socials. Met some folks starting up a business or working remote. Around 3pm (or 9am Moscow time) the ambient language shifted to Russian. Before you come, learn to ride a scooter. Seriously. Noisy, dirty, chaotic, incredibly beautiful and kind people. Avoid staying next to a rice field during burning season.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked good👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 33° 91° 28° 82°🥵AQI 50✈️4h$1,897 / mo🌇 Also went here39 people×Canggu has changed quite a lot. Inmigration treats tourist like shit. Congestion and traffic is a nightmare. Horrible Pollution. Been living here 2 years and I am def closing this chapter. I am a high net worth individual and I will go with my money somewhere else where they respect me and the place has a good energy.
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😙 Affordable📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked very bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 31° 88° 27° 81°🥵AQI 50✈️4h$1,842 / mo🌇 Also went here34 people×I don't understand why London has so high safety rating. Your phone could be stolen and your bicycle WILL be stolen here (or a part of it). I live here 8.5 years and I experienced the above multiple times. Police seems only cares about crime against person by whatever reason. Insure everything expensive that you own. I would also add that antisocial behaviour is quite common here and teenagers are heavily involved in crimes as police don't do anything with them because of their age. Basically th
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 😳 Way too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked bad👮 Safety goodTap to open🌧 Feels 15° 59° 15° 59°AQI 34✈️13h$5,773 / mo🌇 Also went here36 people×I don't know exactly how Barcelona is still considered safe but it's far from it. It's probably the most dangerous city to live in Madrid and one of the most dangerous in europe, with constant pick-pocketing and even violent crimes to get your wallet and phone in certain areas. If you like a peaceful life, Barcelona is not the place anymore!!
⭐️ OverallAll 💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive📡 InternetWiFi 🏎 Fast👍 Liked mediocre👮 Safety goodTap to open🌥 Feels 21° 70° 21° 70°AQI 35✈️13h$4,777 / mo🌇 Also went here36 people×Can't login? See the FAQ
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