Digital Nomads

I certainly would not expect Thailand to be more expensive than Philippines.

Certainly lots of locals in PH are living in $100 a month apartments, but if you want AC and Internet you are spending significantly more. BGC, Makati, Cebu City where most DN would stay seem much more expensive than BKK or Chaing Mai.

Similar story for Thai vs Pinoy food.

Great work! But I'm thinking that a list based on city/area would probably be more accurate/useful. Especially in countries like Thailand, Indonesia, USA etc. that have massive cost differences between areas. Thoughts?

I've been living in indonesia and malaysia. My experience in indonesia is a bit higher than that for jakarta greater area and special region of yogyakarta

But for malaysia, mine is much less than that unless you rent in KL sentral

there are too many factors for this information to be useful on its own.

Mexico is more expensive than Chile?? In my experience, Chile and Uruguay are the most expensive countries in Latin America. If your data from Mexico is just Mexico City or beachtowns, then maybe. But Santiago has basically European city prices and Patagonia even more expensive.

Where has this data come from? It seems to be of with a lot of countries. You do know Reddit doesn’t give a follow link? You also won’t get any traffic with misinformation.

Cuba at nearly $5k seems inaccurate.

Offical exchange rate is 24:1 USD. But real life was 80 last time I heard. This may be the problem.

Your price for Bhutan is way off since it costs $200/day just to be in the country for foreigners

I compare to my own living experiences in some of the mentioned countries and I actually agree with almost all of them. Of course the majority of the expenses are driven by the cost of rental!

I have to agree with others here, sorry this isn’t a constructive take but I’m not buying some of these numbers. For instance Nepal is one of the cheapest places in the world but it’s far down the list and it’s right next to Jordan, which I found to be a bit expensive (as in, comparable to EU). Portugal is also known to be cheaper than Spain, and Ethiopia much cheaper than both, in my experiences (and also of people I know in the nomad community). Maybe the lifestyle and location variables are screwing with it… I also think there’s a difference between a business expat and a DN; with expat assignments they really spend a ton more than they should in developing countries.

Also there is a similar service to this called NomadList; they break it down by city and also include a bunch of other really helpful data around safety, internet speeds, English literacy, and a ton of other data points.

Also as an aside, your website has a lot of ads; as someone who loves travel blogs I would be so annoyed and exit immediately.