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| ⭐️ Total score | 135 reviews |
| ❤️ Liked by members | |
| 👍 Quality of life score | |
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| 📡 Internet | |
| 😝 Fun | |
| ⛅️ Temperature (now) | |
| 💦 Humidity (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | |
| 💨 Air quality (annual) | |
| 👌 Safety | |
| 🤮 Food safety* | |
| 👮♀️ Lack of crime* | |
| 🤝 Lack of racism* | |
| 🎓 Education level* | |
| ⚡️ Power grid | |
| 🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | |
| 💰 Income level* | |
| 🙊 English speaking* | |
| 😤 People density | |
| 🚶 Walkability | |
| 🚦 Traffic safety* | |
| ✈️ Airline scores* | |
| 🧳 Lost luggage* | |
| 🏥 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 | North America |
| 🚩 Country | United States |
| 🗓️ Average trip length | 12 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 103 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) |
☀️ 28°C 82°F + 😊 Comfy (57%) = feels 29°C 84°F
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| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 9 US AQI 🍃 OK |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 50 US AQI |
| 🔌 Power | 115V 60Hz |
| 🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | East San Jose |
| 🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Downtown |
| 🚕 Best taxi app* |
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| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |
Safetywing
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| 💸 Tipping | Yes, 15% |
| 💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Next Space |
| 💻 Best alt. coworking space | SandBox Suites |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Crema Coffee Roasting |
| 🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
| ♻️ Return rate | 👍12% of visitors return |
| 📸 Visitors per year | 1,630,000 visitors |
| 📸 Tourists now | 31,239 tourists |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,000,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $57,808 / year |
| 😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ empty: 21x21m (441m²) per person |
| 👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 50% 👱♀️ 50% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (nomads) |
👨 86% 👱♀️ 14% |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Southwest |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | American |
| 🏥 Best hospital | Stanford Health and Clinics |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $5,120 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $3,678 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $9,696 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $2,770 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $3,309 / month |
| 🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $2,887 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $2,509 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel (median price) | $155 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $95 / night |
| 🏢 Coworking hot desk | $372 / month |
| 🍛 Dinner | $19 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $5 |
| ☕️ Coffee in cafe | $5 |
| 👩🏫 International school | $28,033 / year |
| 📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $44 / month |
| 🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $7 / trip |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
✅ (Medical) marijuana MAY be legal, unenforced or decriminalized (always double check this)
❌ Way too expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members right now
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ High alcohol consumption
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels |
57
14° cool |
55
13° cool |
55
13° cool |
61
16° cool |
66
19° mild |
70
21° mild |
72
22° mild |
72
22° mild |
72
22° mild |
64
18° cool |
61
16° cool |
52
11° cool |
| Real |
56
14°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
55
13°
cool |
59
15°
cool |
64
18°
cool |
70
21°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
72
22°
mild |
64
18°
cool |
61
16°
cool |
52
11°
cool |
| Humidity |
nice 37% |
nice 31% |
nice 31% |
nice 31% |
nice 30% |
too dry 30% |
too dry 29% |
nice 31% |
too dry 28% |
too dry 30% |
nice 35% |
nice 39% |
| Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
| Rain |
rainy 124mm |
dry 19mm |
dry 47mm |
dry 6mm |
dry 8mm |
dry 4mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 0mm |
dry 3mm |
dry 30mm |
dry 17mm |
rainy 120mm |
| Cloud |
pockets 30% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 22% |
pockets 20% |
pockets 13% |
pockets 16% |
pockets 19% |
pockets 14% |
pockets 14% |
pockets 23% |
pockets 22% |
pockets 39% |
| Air quality |
clean 25 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50 US AQI |
okay 50* US AQI |
okay 50* US AQI |
clean 29 US AQI |
| Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 10 UVI |
avoid sun 9 UVI |
avoid sun 7 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
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Lived in Prague for 8 years. It's a beautiful international European city. Never learned Czech, but was fine. Almost all cafes and restaurants have English menus. Superb food delivery apps (Wolt is the best). All the food you can imagine. Vietnamese food is world-class because of the huge Vietnamese population. If you want hipster bars and cafes, there's plenty of that. If you want old-world-charm there's plenty of that. If you want posh luxury there's some of Europes best restaurants and cockta
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Difficult to find places to work in the evenings if you work for a western company. Hard to find a good quality restaurant, Google reviews are very inflated here.
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A walking stereotype. Overcrowded, messy, expensive. Literally nothing works. There are more USA people than in Lisbon, which I thought was impossible. Yes, Italians are awesome and food is great.
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Bangkok is one of my favorite cities. Very cyberpunk vibes. Huge, full of skyscrapers, impressive concrete infrastructure for the BTS skytrain, great architecture and design, super fancy shopping malls, lights, noise, tuktuks, street food vendors, prostitutes and ladyboys, cannabis shops, and advertisements everywhere for beauty products, cosmetic surgery clinics or various furutistic-sounding medical treatments. There are two ways to live in Bangkok: either you live cheaply in a poorly insu
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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.
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