Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City sprawls in every direction for 60 kilometers. Inside that sprawl is a layered city built atop a drained Aztec lake, with one of the densest concentrations of museums on earth and a food culture that has been ranked the best in the Americas more times than any neighbor wants to admit.

For remote workers it became the post-2020 success story — Roma Norte rents tripled, Spanglish became the default language of Cafe Avellaneda, and the term 'mexico-city-nomad' became its own apologetic Twitter category. The neighborhoods most expats live in are tiny relative to the city's size; the further out you go, the more it becomes its own world.

Good for: foodies, anyone wanting a big-city Spanish base, North Americans on a Pacific time zone wanting cheaper rent.