A new Web app, Teleport, promises to help users decide where they should live and work based on their industry and personal preferences, and to help them move there.
Teleport - downloadable in app form for Android and Apple devices, or usable via its Web site - asks users to select their rough job title and give their annual income, as well as monthly rent budget, and choose personal priorities from a list of quality-of-life metrics - such as ease of commute, safety, and environmental quality.
Users can also select career-related priorities, such as "start-up scene" and available venture capital.
Once the user has entered their details, Teleport presents them with a browsable list of suggested cities and some basic information about these, such as how much money the user could save moving there based on its average cost of living and their projected salary there; and how the city scores in the user's prioritised quality-of-life fields: for example how highly its healthcare system is rated.
The user can then further refine this list by adding more information about their practical, personal, and business preferences, such as preferred time zones, climates and commonly-spoken languages; favourite leisure activities; and level of market regulation.
Users can browse the list of cities based on costs savings or "best match" in terms of their preferences.
The list can also be browsed by continent. However, while Europe and North America rack up long lists of suggested cities, Asia yields fewer for its geographic and population size. Only seven cities are listed for South America, and Cape Town and Johannesburg are the only featured cities on the African continent.
Once the user has selected a city they would like to move to, Teleport offers tools to help them plan their move, for example by comparing and planning living expenses, or finding a new job.
Teleport also boasts a number of "Teleport Scouts", or "experts" local to the user's goal city, who can offer assistance based on what they know.
While Teleport's city-selection and move-planning tools are free, its "Scouts" service comes at an variable rate.
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