Thanks all for the feedback and comments!
You should keep a changelog page on the site so people can see new features.
In theory that's what the News page is for, but an actual changelog might be good better.
I do wish there were a way to filter by population.
And possibly related to that, is this site limited to cities of a minimum size?
I am trying to figure out just how granular I am willing to let search get before it starts to feel like it's compromising ease of use. I've gotten so many suggestions, all of them valid and reasonable, but I haven't quite worked out in my head how I would make all of them work without things getting cluttered and difficult to use. We will have to see how it goes :)
Would it be possible to add a filter for weather, say to put in minimum or maximum temperatures you would be willing to live in? As that could be useful
There will surely be a search/filter for weather of some sort, but I'm not quite sure what form it will take yet. Max/min temps feels a bit like a rule editor, which I'm desperate for this not to become :)
Wow. Your site is very cool. I might show it to DH to get him to realize that it's possible to live abroad. Just planting seeds right now, but someday it might bear fruit.
I love it! I hope that it does!
I think the lifestyle selection / associated multiplier should be explained in the FAQ. Going in, I assumed "modest" would be the baseline with no penalty (larger multiplier) to the budget only to see it was assigned 1.25 and "lean" was actually 1.0.
The reason the default/middle option of Modest is 125% of the budget total is that the budget is, necessarily, representative rather than exhaustive. That is to say, we don't have data for every last thing anyone might need, so my experience while building the site and comparing a huge number of cities to reported budgets all over the world is that this "fudge factor" makes it line up across a huge number of locations for a basic budget. It basically gives you some overhead for all the stuff I don't have prices for.
Thanks for all the feedback, and please share with friends to help me keep it going!