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r/howislivingthere

695.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.5K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
695.2Kmembers
5.5Kbest post
961most comments
305posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

87% 11%
Image 87% Gallery 11% Link 1% Text 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

North America :continent_north_america: 149 Europe :continent_europe: 65 Asia :continent_asia: 40 Africa :continent_africa: 15 South America :continent_south_america: 11 AMA ❓ 10 Australia & Oceania :continent_australia: 10 General (no specific continent) :earth: 3 Antarctica :continent_antartica: 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I lived all over the USA the last 6 years after I retired and sold my house. I generally stay a week, drive 2 hours and stay a week. Winter stays are…

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What life was like in New York after 9/11

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How is living on this peninsula in Mauretania/Western Sahara?

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How is living in the Northern Cyprus ?

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Hows it like living in this part of Russia?

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AMA πŸ‡²πŸ‡¨ - I live in a slum area in the largest city in the world, Jakarta.

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How is life in a single-family house in Singapore?

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What’s it like living in this part of Washington?

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How is life in Sri Lanka

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What's it like living in Sacramento?

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Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/howislivingthere, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/howislivingthere have?
r/howislivingthere has about 695.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 305 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.5K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/howislivingthere?
"I lived all over the USA the last 6 years after I retired and sold my house. I generally stay a week, drive 2 hours and stay a week. Winter " reached 5.5K upvotes and 961 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/howislivingthere.
What subreddits are similar to r/howislivingthere?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/whoathatsinteresting.
What kind of posts do best on r/howislivingthere?
Of the posts we hold, 87% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/howislivingthere?
Across 305 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (944 avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (672 avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (539 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/howislivingthere?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/howislivingthere has 506 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/howislivingthere, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.