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| 🎒 Nomad Score™ | 2 reviews |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
| 👶 Family score | |
| 🎒 Community score | |
| 🤯 Overcrowding score | |
| 💵 Cost | |
| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| ❄️ % of buildings with AC | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 👩 Safe for women | |
| 🌈 Safe for LGBTQ+ | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| ✈️ Airline scores* | |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* | |
| 😄 Happiness* | |
| 🍸 Nightlife | |
| 📶 Free WiFi in city | |
| 🖥 Places to work from | |
| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech* | |
| 🎅 Startup Score |
| 🌍 Continent | North America |
| 🚩 Country | Canada |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 27 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌫 -5°C 24°F + 💦 Damp (90%) = feels -8°C 18°F
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| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 21 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V 60Hz |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 10 CAD in USD | USD 7.22 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CAD 100 = USD 72 |
| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Clearwater |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 61,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $42,154 / year |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Best Buy |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Kijiji |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | West Jet |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air Canada |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Northern Lights Regional Health Centre |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $4,475 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,864 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $6,764 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,933 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $2,312 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,620 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,510 / month |
| 🏠 Median home price | $277,956 |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $108 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $53 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $238 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $25 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $6 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $6 / trip |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $50,000 | $12,825 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $100,000 | $34,643 |
| 💰 Estimated tax on $250,000 | $109,369 |
✅ Very safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ Extremely expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very damp now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are bad
❌ Many people smoke tobacco
❌ High alcohol consumption
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels (median) |
-1210° freezing |
-147° freezing |
-327° freezing |
337° cold |
1355° cool |
1559° cool |
2170° mild |
1966° mild |
1050° cold |
541° cold |
-130° freezing |
-163° freezing |
| Real (median) |
-1210°
freezing |
-148°
freezing |
-327°
freezing |
337°
very cold |
1355°
cool |
1559°
cool |
2169°
mild |
1965°
mild |
1050°
cold |
541°
very cold |
-131°
freezing |
-163°
freezing |
| Humidity |
damp 79% |
nice 68% |
damp 74% |
nice 57% |
nice 54% |
nice 58% |
nice 63% |
nice 66% |
damp 74% |
nice 64% |
damp 82% |
damp 74% |
| Most common | ||||||||||||
| Rain |
dry 22mm |
dry 16mm |
dry 24mm |
dry 11mm |
dry 39mm |
rainy 77mm |
rainy 57mm |
dry 47mm |
rainy 54mm |
dry 16mm |
dry 26mm |
dry 21mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 30% |
pockets 34% |
pockets 30% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 27% |
pockets 31% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 28% |
pockets 34% |
pockets 24% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 36% |
| Air quality |
clean 21 US AQI |
clean 22 US AQI |
clean 24 US AQI |
clean 21 US AQI |
clean 21 US AQI |
clean 19 US AQI |
clean 22 US AQI |
clean 27 US AQI |
clean 18 US AQI |
clean 16 US AQI |
clean 22 US AQI |
clean 23 US AQI |
| Remote workers | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 600 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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