Know a place before you book the flight.
Digimad is the destination intelligence app for people who work from anywhere. Real internet speeds, honest monthly budgets, the visa you actually qualify for and the tax day-count that decides whether you should still be there — down to the neighbourhood, every figure traced back to its source.
30
Visa paths documented
8
Dedicated nomad visas
14
Official sources cited
The problem
Planning a move still means opening thirty tabs
Outdated advice, confidently written
A blog post from 2022 says the visa is 30 days. It has been 60 since March, and the extension rules changed twice.
Numbers averaged into uselessness
Cost-of-living indexes average a whole city. The difference between two Bangkok districts is larger than the difference between two countries.
Tax thresholds you find out about afterwards
Nobody tells you that day 183 is the one that matters, until an accountant does, a year too late.
What you get
Every question you ask about a place, answered in one page
Connectivity you can work on
Median fixed and mobile speeds, public Wi-Fi quality, power stability, eSIM support and the providers people actually use.
Budgets, not vibes
Lean, comfortable and premium monthly budgets, plus the price sheet behind them: rent by type, coworking, groceries, transit, gym.
The visa you qualify for
Every realistic route in: nomad visas, visa-free stays, extensions and residence permits, with income thresholds, fees and processing times.
Day counts that matter
Residency thresholds, the window they are counted in, territorial-taxation status and what it means for foreign income.
Safety, honestly rated
Night safety, solo-female travel, petty crime and the scams that are actually running right now — rated, not hand-waved.
A community you can find
Nomad density, English level, named coworking spaces with prices, and where people meet once they land.
How it works
Three steps from “maybe there” to “booked”
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Shortlist somewhere
Filter by budget, internet, safety or the tags that describe how you actually want to live. Compare countries, cities and neighbourhoods on the same 0–10 scale.
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Check the detail
Read the full profile: cost sheet, connectivity, climate calendar, healthcare, transport, and the watch-outs locals would tell you about.
- 3
Stay legally, stay longer
Pick the visa route that fits your income and stay length, then track your days against the residency threshold before it becomes a problem.
Destinations
Start with the cities scoring highest right now
Bangkok
A 24-hour megacity where world-class infrastructure costs a third of what it should.
Tokyo
The most functional city on earth, now merely expensive rather than prohibitive.
Chiang Mai
The original nomad city: cheap, cafe-dense, and unliveable for three months a year.
Seoul
A 24-hour city with the world's best internet and cafes built for laptops.
Da Nang
A beach, a real city and fibre internet, for under USD 1,200 a month.
Kuala Lumpur
The best housing per dollar in Asia, in a city where everything happens in English.
Why Digimad
Built for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong
Three levels of detail, honestly separated
Country, city and neighbourhood are separate levels. A district page tells you what is genuinely different about it, and labels everything it inherits from the city rather than pretending to know more.
Sourced, dated, and auditable
Every profile lists the sources behind it with the date each was last verified, and an editorial status. If we are unsure, the page says so instead of rounding it into confidence.
Primary sources where it counts
Visa and entry rules are checked against the primary source — the immigration authority or foreign ministry's own portal — and the page links to it. Cost, connectivity and safety figures come from editorial review, and are labelled as such.
One catalog, web and mobile
The same catalog powers the mobile app, so what you read here is what you get in your pocket at the border, offline, with your day count already running.
Digimad is informational. Immigration and tax rules change without notice and depend on your nationality and circumstances — always confirm with the official source or a qualified adviser before you act on anything you read here. Every page links to the sources it used.
FAQ
Questions worth asking first
Pick your next base on evidence, not on someone's highlight reel.
Every destination page is free to read, sourced, and dated. Start with the one you have been thinking about.
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