Legal disclaimers
Visa and tax blurbs are non-exhaustive checkpoints pointing you to official portals — not individualized advice.
For how we use hosting analytics and related notices, see Privacy.
Guided path
Comparable numbers first — then verify what matters
Comparable figures and short checkpoints help you narrow options quickly. For visas and taxes, confirm details with official government sources — follow the workflow below.
Figures are directional; visa and tax lines are non-exhaustive reminders — always confirm with official government sources before acting.
Immigration
Long-term settlement, visas, and hiring gravity.
Stay & remote
Medium-term stays, remote work, and cost of living.
Travel
Short trips, landmarks, and travel buzz.
Step 1 — Compare cities in tables
Start with rent bands, living-cost index, connectivity, and remote-work scores side by side on city and comparison pages.
Every table and ranking uses the same fixed list of 110 cities. Scores and ranks are compared only within this group of 110 (for example, the lowest score will be shown as 1) so you have a consistent baseline. This does NOT mean these are the only places in the world worth considering, nor does it mean unlisted cities score zero.
Planning a short trip? Open Travel rankings for a tourism-oriented editorial sort over the same guides. Compare pages and rent tools on this path target longer moves and remote-work budgeting.
Want everything in one table for Excel or Google Sheets? Download our city table — no coding required for the spreadsheet version.
Step 2 — Pick what matters to you
Map these metrics to what matters most in your own plans.
Lower rent pressure
Sort mental model: compare rent bands and cost index pairs — validate against live listings later.
Overall cost of living
Use the cost-index compare tool for A/B reads; remember NYC = 100 is directional, not PPP-perfect.
Remote-work fit
Use broadband medians + remote-worker score as screening — pair with employer and timezone reality.
Step 3 — Visa & tax: confirm with official sources
Read the short checkpoints on each city page, then open the immigration and tax portals yourself. If wording changes, rely on the official page — not this summary.
Generic move checklist (non-legal)
Administrative reminders only — not immigration or tax advice.
- Build a budget using rent bands + cost index as a starting signal.
- Collect employer / income documentation your bank may ask for.
- Book temporary housing before committing to long leases.
- Check connectivity needs (VPN policy, meeting hours) against local broadband medians.
- Register local addresses where required — timelines vary by city.
- Open banking early — processing times differ by country.
- Keep screenshots/PDFs of official visa and tax pages you relied on (with dates).
- Re-read visa/tax checkpoints before booking non-refundable travel.
There is no open-ended AI legal chat on this site — use structured tools and official portals to avoid confident mistakes.
When policies matter, keep dated screenshots or PDFs of official pages — easier than relying on memory later.
Transparency
Methodology
This MVP freezes an editorial baseline so every template (country hub, city guide, comparison) can be measured cleanly in Google Search Console.
Teleport enrichment (city guides)
Where GeoNames IDs exist in our dataset, city pages may display Teleport urban-area quality scores (housing, safety, etc.). These calls use ISR with revalidate 604800 seconds — roughly weekly freshness after deploy. Builds without outbound network skip the block silently.
Public extracts & attribution
The downloadable CSV city table includes slug, core metrics, provenance metadata, and `dataAsOf` for spreadsheet reuse. You may republish factual excerpts if you retain source attribution carried in the extract (including provenance labels and URLs) and avoid implying endorsement.
Crowd calibration (stub)
Anonymous calibration ideas live on the Contribute stub — no first-party database in this MVP.
Refresh cadence
Baseline stamp for this build: . Per-city `dataAsOf` plus metric footnotes stay aligned with this baseline; Stage 2 adds automated ingest proposals (dry-run by default) and optional history snapshots.