Enter what you spend now. Compare it against researched figures for fourteen nomad cities - each one carrying its source, its date, and an honest label for how reliable it is.
This puts your actual monthly spend against typical spend in another city. That is the right comparison for "what would my life cost there" - but it is not like-for-like, and the difference matters. If you eat out five nights a week where you are now and compare against a city's typical figure, the gap will flatter the destination. The honest reading is: this shows how your current lifestyle costs compare, not what you would spend after adapting to local habits.
Every city below carries its source, the date it was researched, and a reliability tier. Tier A means an official statistical index exists and was used - Lisbon, Budapest and Tbilisi are the only three that qualify. Tier B means property-portal asking prices, which typically run above what people actually sign. Tier C means no authoritative index exists at all and the figure is an estimate from listings - Bali, Split and Chiang Mai fall here, and you should treat those numbers as a starting point for your own research, not an answer.
The foreigner price gap is real. In Da Nang the same one-bedroom lists at roughly 7-9 million VND on Vietnamese-language platforms and 14-19 million on English-language foreigner-facing sites. Similar channel premiums are widely reported in Bali, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City, though only Da Nang has been rigorously documented. Where you search changes what you pay.
Rent is the whole game. It is usually 30-50% of the total and varies far more between cities than anything else. A comparison that leaves rent out isn't a cost-of-living comparison. If you want to go deeper on housing specifically - is this actual listing good value per square metre against your current place - the property comparator does that properly.
There is no reference figure for groceries. The August 2026 research pass did not find comparable per-city grocery data across all fourteen cities, and inventing one would have been worse than leaving it out. You can still enter your own grocery spend - it counts toward your total - but the destination column shows a gap rather than a number. It will be filled when there is something honest to fill it with.