The Earth Awaits (Traveler Website Review)

in #life6 years ago (edited)

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I've been looking for a reputable site that supplies accurate information, such as cost of living, for different cities across the world. https://www.theearthawaits.com/ came recommended. I took a look and wanted to share.

Below is from the site's FAQ

What is it?

The Earth Awaits is a tool for long-term travelers, students taking a gap year, retirees, and anyone else with an irrepressible wanderlust. We recognize that it's hard to figure out where you'd fit in abroad, and especially hard to figure out what it will cost to live there. The Earth Awaits takes a few simple inputs about your family size, housing needs, and lifestyle, and uses them to calculate a monthly budget tailored to you for more than 600 cities around the world. We'll also help you filter out cities that don't meet your needs for crime, pollution, and many other important attributes.

Way more importantly, once you find a city (or cities) that you're interested in, you can edit that budget to suit you perfectly, learn about the city and country, and begin to plan your big escape abroad.

The Earth Awaits uses up-to-date cost of living information to give accurate estimates for housing, food, and entertainment budgets in your new home. The data is crowdsourced from those who live or have lived in each city. The cost of living data is updated from Numbeo every night to keep all budget estimates as accurate as possible.

The Earth Awaits is also the home of the internet's first travel hacking search engine, a tool that helps those traveling on a budget find dozens of ways to redeem airline points to get from point A to point B. It shows you ways to use your transferable credit card points where applicable, too. We also track current credit card signup bonuses, and calculate the best card ways to acquire points and get you on your way fast (and hopefully free!).

So it's based, in part, on the data produced by Numbeo. Created by former Google employee Mladen Adamovic.

Mladen worked as a software engineer at Google (2007-2009) where he was developing internal applications. He also worked as a software engineer for Sungard (2010-2011) and as a project manager for Troxo (2011). He was a senior teaching assistant at University of Banja Luka (2004-2007). He obtained M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from University of Banja Luka in 2006 and B.Sc. Math from University of Belgrade in 2003.
You can find him on Linkedin Linkedin.

Numbeo.com was launched in April 2009. The research and available data at Numbeo.com are not influenced by any governmental organization.

Numbeo.com website is maintained by Numbeo doo incorporated in Serbia with business registration number 20853514.

In the media
This website was mentioned or used as a source by many international newspapers and magazines including BBC, Time, The Week, Forbes, The Economist, Business Insider, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, The Telegraph, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, China Daily, The Washington Post, USA Today and dozens more. For more details please see In the News page.

Those are the credentials.

Here's an example:
Want to live in Eskisehir Turkey? It's cheap.

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Beautiful photography for each city.
More of Eskisehir
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There are many pros to this site. My favorites are the quality of the information and research as well as the wide variety of information supplied: Freedom, Budget, Weather, etc.

The biggest and only real con I found was that they need more cities added(like Acapulco!). They give in depth flexible information so I can understand why.

I hope you get some use out of it. Thanks for checking me out.

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