All 309 cities
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Europe
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain
Year-round spring on the biggest Canary Island
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- Great weather
- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain
Europe's winter-sun nomad base
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- Great weather
- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
Funchal (Madeira) Portugal
Madeira's island capital with a nomad village
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- Great weather
- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
Palma de Mallorca Spain
Island capital with a Gothic cathedral and a beach
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- Fast wifi
- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
Valletta Malta
Tiny English-speaking island capital in the Med
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- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
- Easy start
Malmö Sweden
Sweden's youngest city, a bridge from Copenhagen
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- 90+ days, US passport
- Easy start
- Top 10 overall
Faro (Algarve) Portugal
Algarve base with beaches and an airport
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- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
- US-friendly hours
Málaga Spain
Costa del Sol tech hub with a beach
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- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
- Top 10 overall
Barcelona Spain
Beach, grid streets and big-city everything
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- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
- Top 10 overall
Lisbon Portugal
Sunny Atlantic capital with Europe's biggest nomad scene
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- Nomad visa
- 90+ days, US passport
- US-friendly hours
Budapest Hungary
Thermal baths, ruin bars and low rents
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- Fast wifi
- Under $1.5k
- Nomad visa
Madrid Spain
High-energy capital with Spain's best transport
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- Walkable
Bilbao Spain
Basque food and design in a compact city
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- Walkable
San Sebastián Spain
Pintxos, surf and the prettiest bay in Spain
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- Fast wifi
Alicante Spain
Costa Blanca base with a real city behind the beach
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Stockholm Sweden
Scandi capital on fourteen islands
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- Easy start
- English-friendly
Copenhagen Denmark
Design, bikes and quality of life, at a price
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- Easy start
- Walkable
- English-friendly
Geneva Switzerland
International city on a lake, at Swiss prices
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- Very safe
- Fast wifi
- Easy start
The Hague Netherlands
International city with a North Sea beach
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- Easy start
- Walkable
- English-friendly
Paris France
The capital of everything, at a capital's price
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- Walkable
Vienna Austria
Repeatedly the world's most livable city
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- Walkable
- English-friendly
Antwerp Belgium
Fashion, diamonds and Belgium's best nightlife
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- English-friendly
Porto Portugal
Lisbon's cheaper, moodier northern sibling
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- US-friendly hours
Basel Switzerland
Rhine city where three countries meet
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- Walkable
Brussels Belgium
EU capital with a multilingual job market
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Valencia Spain
Barcelona's calmer, cheaper Mediterranean cousin
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Aarhus Denmark
Denmark's second city with a beach and a big university
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- Fast wifi
Athens Greece
Ancient city, modern nomad scene, island escapes
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- Under $1.5k
Lyon France
France's food capital with a startup scene
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- Walkable
Rotterdam Netherlands
Modern architecture and a port-city edge
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Gothenburg Sweden
Sweden's laid-back west-coast city
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Munich Germany
Bavarian capital with Alps at the door
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- Walkable
Seville Spain
Sun-soaked Andalusian charm on a budget
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- Under $1.5k
Düsseldorf Germany
Rhine city of fashion, art and Japan's largest European community
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London United Kingdom
Global hub with the deepest job market in Europe
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- US-friendly hours
Utrecht Netherlands
Canal city that is all of Amsterdam's charm with fewer tourists
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Berlin Germany
Creative, affordable-for-Western-Europe capital
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Rome Italy
History on every corner, chaos on every road
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Braga Portugal
Portugal's youngest city, an hour from Porto
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- US-friendly hours
Sibiu Romania
Transylvanian Saxon town with a tech economy
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- Under $1.5k
Nice France
Riviera sun with real city life
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Granada Spain
Alhambra views on a student budget
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Helsinki Finland
Design, saunas and the world's happiest country
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Toulouse France
Aerospace city with a pink-brick centre
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Bordeaux France
Wine capital, flat and bikeable
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Oslo Norway
Fjord capital with nature at the tram stop
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Marseille France
Gritty Mediterranean port reinventing itself
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Cologne Germany
Cathedral, carnival and a relaxed Rhine city
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Hamburg Germany
Germany's port city with water everywhere
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Manchester United Kingdom
Music, football and the UK's second tech hub
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- US-friendly hours
Montpellier France
Young, sunny and car-free at the core
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Prague Czechia
Fairy-tale centre with a serious tech economy
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Split Croatia
Dalmatian coast base with a nomad permit
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Warsaw Poland
Modern Polish capital with a big economy
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Amsterdam Netherlands
Bike-first canals and an international job market
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Milan Italy
Italy's business and design capital
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Naples Italy
Loud, cheap and the best pizza on earth
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Dubrovnik Croatia
Walled city on the Adriatic
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Sofia Bulgaria
Mountain-side capital with EU prices from a decade ago
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- Cheap
- Under $1.5k
- Under $1k
Stuttgart Germany
Engineering capital in a bowl of vineyards
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Zürich Switzerland
Immaculate, efficient, and eye-wateringly expensive
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Gdańsk Poland
Baltic port with a rebuilt old town
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- Under $1.5k
Palermo Italy
Sicilian capital with a raw, rich street life
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Limassol Cyprus
Sun, sea and a tax-friendly EU base
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Zagreb Croatia
Central European feel with a nomad permit
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Brno Czechia
Czechia's second city, calmer and cheaper than Prague
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Bucharest Romania
Fast internet and low prices on the EU's edge
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- Under $1.5k
Edinburgh United Kingdom
Festival city with a walkable medieval core
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- US-friendly hours
Frankfurt Germany
Germany's finance hub with the continent's best airport
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Kraków Poland
Poland's most walkable city, with a growing tech hub
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- Under $1.5k
Strasbourg France
European capital on the German border
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Bergen Norway
Gateway to the fjords, rain included
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Bologna Italy
Food capital and university town under porticoes
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Genoa Italy
Ligurian port city with the Riviera on both sides
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Graz Austria
Austria's student city with a Mediterranean lean
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Bratislava Slovakia
Small Danube capital next door to Vienna
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Bristol United Kingdom
Creative, independent and an hour and a half from London
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Ljubljana Slovenia
Small, green and car-free at the centre
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Cluj-Napoca Romania
Romania's tech capital in Transylvania
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- Under $1.5k
Reykjavík Iceland
Small capital at the edge of the Arctic
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- Fast wifi
Leipzig Germany
East Germany's creative boom town
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Thessaloniki Greece
Greece's laid-back second city
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Poznań Poland
Trade-fair city halfway between Berlin and Warsaw
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Plovdiv Bulgaria
Europe's oldest living city, at Bulgarian prices
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Wrocław Poland
Poland's tech hub with a hundred bridges
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Dublin Ireland
English-speaking EU capital with a tech cluster
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Florence Italy
Renaissance city that fits in an afternoon walk
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Vilnius Lithuania
Baroque old town and a fintech boom
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Tallinn Estonia
Digital-first city that invented e-Residency
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Nantes France
Creative Atlantic city with a strong tech scene
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Verona Italy
Roman arena, opera and Lake Garda next door
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Glasgow United Kingdom
Friendly, creative and cheaper than Edinburgh
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Salzburg Austria
Baroque city at the edge of the Alps
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Turin Italy
Elegant, underrated and cheaper than Milan
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Tartu Estonia
Estonia's student town with a digital edge
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Cork Ireland
Ireland's second city with a food-market heart
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Riga Latvia
Art Nouveau capital on the Baltic
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Belfast United Kingdom
The UK's cheapest capital, with the Irish coast an hour away
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Tirana Albania
Colourful, cheap and visa-free for a year
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Bansko Bulgaria
The mountain village that became a nomad institution
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Kotor Montenegro
Fjord-like bay and a walled medieval town
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Podgorica Montenegro
Montenegro's practical capital, an hour from the coast
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Novi Sad Serbia
Danube university city with the EXIT festival
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Tbilisi Georgia
Year-long visa-free stays and Caucasus hospitality
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Belgrade Serbia
Nightlife capital of the Balkans
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- Under $1k
Batumi Georgia
Black Sea resort with Georgia's visa freedom
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- Under $1k
Antalya Türkiye
Turkish Riviera base with a nomad visa
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- Under $1k
Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Layered history, coffee and low costs
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Istanbul Türkiye
Two continents, endless energy, weak lira
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Asia
Taipei Taiwan
Safe, efficient and surprisingly affordable
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Hong Kong Hong Kong
Dense, efficient, and exceptionally connected
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Naha (Okinawa) Japan
Japan's subtropical island capital
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- Very safe
- Warm winters
Fukuoka Japan
Japan's startup city, compact and coastal
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- Very safe
Kobe Japan
Cosmopolitan port squeezed between mountains and sea
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- Very safe
Tokyo Japan
The world's largest city, running like clockwork
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- Very safe
Kyoto Japan
Temples, tea and a slower Japan
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- Very safe
Osaka Japan
Japan's food capital with Tokyo's rail and lower rents
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- Very safe
Sapporo Japan
Snow, ramen and Japan's most spacious city
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- Very safe
Kaohsiung Taiwan
Taiwan's southern port with warmer weather and lower rents
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- Warm winters
Nagoya Japan
Japan's industrial heart, between Tokyo and Osaka
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- Very safe
Seoul South Korea
Fast internet, fast pace, 24-hour city
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Busan South Korea
Beaches and mountains on Korea's south coast
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Penang (George Town) Malaysia
Street-food capital with heritage streets
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- Fast wifi
- Under $1k
Singapore Singapore
Orderly, expensive, exceptionally connected
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- Very safe
Jeju City South Korea
Korea's volcanic island with visa-free entry for most
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Johor Bahru Malaysia
Singapore's neighbour at Malaysian prices
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Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Borneo's easy-going capital between islands and Mount Kinabalu
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Pattaya Thailand
Beach resort two hours from Bangkok with a huge expat base
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Shenzhen China
China's hardware capital next to Hong Kong
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Yerevan Armenia
Ancient capital with a young tech scene
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Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Modern, English-friendly and underpriced
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Chiang Mai Thailand
The original nomad capital, still the cheapest
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- Under $1k
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Frenetic, entrepreneurial and cheap
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- Cheap
- Under $1k
Shanghai China
China's global city with a superb metro
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Nha Trang Vietnam
Vietnam's beach city with a big bay and low costs
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Da Nang Vietnam
Beach city with Vietnam's best value
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- Cheap
Bangkok Thailand
Megacity convenience at Southeast Asian prices
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Phuket Thailand
Island life with a full expat infrastructure
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Hanoi Vietnam
Old Quarter charm and lakeside cafés
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Ubud (Bali) Indonesia
Bali's rice-terrace town for yoga, art and slow work
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Canggu (Bali) Indonesia
Surf, cafés and coworking on Bali's west coast
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Hoi An Vietnam
Lantern-lit old town with a beach and a slower Vietnam
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Chengdu China
Sichuan's laid-back megacity of tea houses and hotpot
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Bengaluru India
India's tech capital with a mild climate
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Colombo Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's capital with the whole island within reach
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Manila Philippines
Megacity gateway to the Philippines
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Yogyakarta Indonesia
Java's cultural capital on a student budget
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Almaty Kazakhstan
Mountain-backed city on the Silk Road
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Davao City Philippines
Mindanao's orderly big city with durian and Mount Apo
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Goa (Panaji) India
India's beach state and its original nomad scene
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- Cheap
Chennai India
South India's cultural capital on a long beach
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- Cheap
Jakarta Indonesia
Indonesia's megacity, cheap and chaotic
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Cebu City Philippines
Island base with English everywhere
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Tashkent Uzbekistan
Central Asia's largest city, opening up
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Hyderabad India
India's second tech capital with biryani and a real metro
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Vientiane Laos
Southeast Asia's sleepiest capital on the Mekong
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New Delhi India
India's capital: history, food and smog
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- Cheap
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Cheap, easy visas, and a growing scene
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Kathmandu Nepal
Gateway to the Himalayas
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- Cheap
Pune India
Mumbai's cooler, calmer sibling on the plateau
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- Cheap
Bandung Indonesia
Cool highland city with Indonesia's creative scene
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Pokhara Nepal
Lake town under the Annapurnas
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Mumbai India
India's commercial and film capital
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Siem Reap Cambodia
Angkor's town, with a friendly expat community
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Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
World's coldest capital, with the steppe at the edge of town
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Middle East
Sharjah United Arab Emirates
Dubai's cultural neighbour with much lower rents
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Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
Dubai's calmer, greener neighbour
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Dubai United Arab Emirates
Tax-free, ultra-modern, and hot
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Doha Qatar
Modern Gulf hub with a metro and no income tax
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Salalah Oman
Oman's monsoon-green south with empty beaches
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Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's fast-changing capital
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Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port and its most relaxed city
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Muscat Oman
Calm, safe and scenic Gulf capital
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Amman Jordan
Calm base for Jordan and the Levant
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Manama Bahrain
Small, relaxed Gulf island with easy visas
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Aqaba Jordan
Jordan's Red Sea free zone with diving and Wadi Rum
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Beirut Lebanon
Resilient Mediterranean city with legendary food
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Africa
Port Louis Mauritius
Indian Ocean island with a one-year nomad visa
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- Great weather
- Under $1.5k
- Warm winters
Rabat Morocco
Morocco's calm, green capital on the Atlantic
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Casablanca Morocco
Morocco's business capital on the Atlantic
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Cape Town South Africa
Mountain, ocean and wine, at rand prices
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Tangier Morocco
Gateway between Europe and Africa
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Windhoek Namibia
Clean, safe base for Namibia's deserts
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Durban South Africa
Subtropical surf city on the Indian Ocean
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- Great weather
Agadir Morocco
Morocco's beach city and surf gateway
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Tunis Tunisia
Mediterranean capital few nomads have discovered
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Nairobi Kenya
East Africa's startup hub with safari weekends
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- Great weather
Mombasa Kenya
Kenya's Swahili coast city with Diani beach south
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Alexandria Egypt
Egypt's Mediterranean city with a legendary library
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- Cheap
Johannesburg South Africa
South Africa's economic engine
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Kigali Rwanda
Africa's cleanest and safest capital
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Marrakech Morocco
Medina life with desert and mountains close
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Accra Ghana
West Africa's most welcoming capital
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Cairo Egypt
Millennia of history in an overwhelming metropolis
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Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Swahili coast city with Zanzibar next door
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Kumasi Ghana
Ashanti capital and Ghana's garden city
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Zanzibar City Tanzania
Stone Town and the island beaches beyond
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Lagos Nigeria
Africa's biggest city and startup scene
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Dakar Senegal
West Africa's cultural capital on the Atlantic
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Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Africa's diplomatic capital at altitude
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Kampala Uganda
Hilly, friendly and full of energy
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North America
Honolulu United States
Island living with US infrastructure
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- Great weather
- Warm winters
Miami United States
Latin gateway with beaches and a crypto scene
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- Warm winters
Montréal Canada
Bilingual, cultural and affordable for North America
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Washington DC United States
Museums, power and a great Metro
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- Nonstop from US
New York City United States
The city that never sleeps, at a price that never sleeps either
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Chicago United States
America's great architecture city on the lake
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- Nonstop from US
Toronto Canada
Canada's biggest, most diverse city
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Orlando United States
Theme-park capital with cheap flights everywhere
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- Nonstop from US
Atlanta United States
Southern hub with a huge airport and low rents
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- Nonstop from US
Boston United States
Walkable, historic and full of universities
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Victoria Canada
Canada's mildest city, on Vancouver Island
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Tampa United States
Gulf Coast sun and beaches
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Dallas United States
Big Texas hub with no state income tax
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- Nonstop from US
Ottawa Canada
Bilingual capital with parks and a canal
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Vancouver Canada
Ocean, mountains and mild weather
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Houston United States
Diverse, affordable and enormous
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- Nonstop from US
Philadelphia United States
Walkable history at East Coast prices minus New York
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San Francisco United States
The tech capital, compact and hilly
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Minneapolis United States
Lakes, bikes and a strong job market
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- Nonstop from US
Quebec City Canada
Walled French city with real winters
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Raleigh United States
Research Triangle tech and a mild climate
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- Fast wifi
Los Angeles United States
Sun, entertainment and endless sprawl
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Charleston United States
Historic port city with beaches and a famous food scene
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San Diego United States
Perfect weather and beaches, year-round
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- Fast wifi
Denver United States
Mountain access and a growing tech base
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- Nonstop from US
Pittsburgh United States
Affordable, hilly and quietly innovative
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Austin United States
Tech-town Texas with live music
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Halifax Canada
Atlantic Canada's friendly harbour city
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Nashville United States
Music city booming with newcomers
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Salt Lake City United States
Mountains at the end of every street
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Seattle United States
Tech giant city between mountains and sound
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New Orleans United States
Music, food and a walkable French Quarter
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San Antonio United States
Texas's most affordable big city, with the River Walk
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Charlotte United States
Banking hub with a big hub airport
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Santa Fe United States
Adobe art capital at 7,000 feet
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Asheville United States
Blue Ridge mountain town of breweries and trails
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- Fast wifi
Phoenix United States
Desert sun and space, at a lower cost
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- Nonstop from US
Portland United States
Bikes, breweries and a slower pace
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Sacramento United States
California's capital at half the Bay Area's rent
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Tucson United States
Sonoran desert city with a UNESCO food scene
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Las Vegas United States
Desert city with 24-hour everything
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- Nonstop from US
Calgary Canada
Rockies at the door, oil money in the city
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Edmonton Canada
Alberta's capital with the biggest urban park in Canada
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Latin America
Buenos Aires Argentina
European grandeur at Latin American prices
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- Warm winters
- Under $1k
Montevideo Uruguay
Calm, safe and quietly progressive
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Viña del Mar Chile
Chile's garden beach city next to Valparaíso
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Valparaíso Chile
Bohemian port of hills and murals
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Córdoba Argentina
Argentina's student city in the hills
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Salvador Brazil
Afro-Brazilian capital of music and carnival
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Bucaramanga Colombia
Colombia's city of parks with a mild climate
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La Paz (Baja California Sur) Mexico
Sea of Cortez town with whale sharks and empty beaches
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Santa Marta Colombia
Caribbean base for Tayrona and the Sierra Nevada
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Mendoza Argentina
Wine capital at the foot of the Andes
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Playa del Carmen Mexico
Caribbean beach town on the nomad circuit
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Tulum Mexico
Caribbean beach and jungle, at a premium
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Mazatlán Mexico
Pacific city with the longest malecón and a restored old town
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Quito Ecuador
High-altitude colonial capital on the equator
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Punta del Este Uruguay
South America's Riviera, quiet outside January
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San José Costa Rica
Gateway to Costa Rica's beaches and cloud forests
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Puerto Vallarta Mexico
Pacific beach town with a strong expat scene
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Cancún Mexico
Caribbean hub with the most US flights in Mexico
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Florianópolis Brazil
Island beaches and Brazil's tech island
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Lima Peru
Coastal capital with a world-famous food scene
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Mérida Mexico
Safe colonial city near cenotes and coast
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Guadalajara Mexico
Mexico's tech city with mariachi roots
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Puebla Mexico
Baroque city of mole and volcano views
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Bogotá Colombia
High-altitude capital with a growing tech scene
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Guayaquil Ecuador
Ecuador's port and gateway to the Galápagos
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Cali Colombia
Salsa capital with a warm climate
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San Miguel de Allende Mexico
Colonial jewel with a large expat community
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Recife Brazil
Brazil's tech port with Olinda next door
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Monterrey Mexico
Mexico's industrial powerhouse under the mountains
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Santiago Chile
Andes backdrop and a stable economy
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Querétaro Mexico
Safe, prosperous colonial city near CDMX
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Tamarindo Costa Rica
Costa Rica's surf town with a nomad village feel
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Curitiba Brazil
Brazil's urban-planning model city
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Guanajuato Mexico
Colourful hillside university city
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Belo Horizonte Brazil
Brazil's bar capital in the mountains of Minas
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Panama City Panama
Skyline on the canal, dollars in the wallet
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São Paulo Brazil
Latin America's business and food capital
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Cartagena Colombia
Caribbean walled city with a nomad visa
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Oaxaca City Mexico
Food, mezcal and colonial calm
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Cuenca Ecuador
Colonial calm in the Ecuadorian highlands
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Mexico City Mexico
Vast, cultured, and 180 days visa-free
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Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Caribbean capital with the oldest colonial quarter
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Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Beaches, mountains and carnival in one city
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Boquete Panama
Cool coffee-highland town with a big expat community
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Medellín Colombia
Spring weather year-round and a famous nomad scene
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Arequipa Peru
White volcanic city under El Misti
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Cusco Peru
Inca capital at 3,400 metres
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Antigua Guatemala Guatemala
Volcano views and cobbled streets
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Oceania
Brisbane Australia
Subtropical, growing and gearing up for 2032
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- Warm winters
Perth Australia
Isolated, sunny and laid-back
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- Warm winters
Newcastle (NSW) Australia
Surf city two hours from Sydney at a fraction of the rent
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- Warm winters
Sydney Australia
Harbour city with beaches in the suburbs
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Wellington New Zealand
Compact creative capital with wild weather
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Gold Coast Australia
Surf city with a light rail
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Melbourne Australia
Coffee, culture and trams
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Byron Bay Australia
Australia's most famous beach town, and its priciest
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Auckland New Zealand
Harbour city at the edge of the world
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Adelaide Australia
Festivals, wine and a relaxed pace
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Christchurch New Zealand
Rebuilt garden city near mountains
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Cairns Australia
Tropical gateway to the Great Barrier Reef
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Canberra Australia
Planned capital of parks, museums and cycling paths
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Darwin Australia
Australia's tropical frontier capital, closest to Asia
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Dunedin New Zealand
Scottish-flavoured university city with wildlife on the doorstep
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Hobart Australia
Small island capital with wilderness close by
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Queenstown New Zealand
Adventure capital on a mountain lake
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