Relocation · Quality vs Cost
Where does your money buy a good life — not just a cheap one?
Cheap rent with dial-up internet and dodgy streets is no bargain. Weight internet, safety, healthcare, air and English your way — then see which countries earn the "cheap & great" quadrant on your budget.
Quality of Life vs Cost Matrix
Cheap is easy — cheap and good is the trick. Weight what matters to you, set your budget, and see which countries land in the "cheap & great" quadrant.
167 countries ranked · on $3,000/month you'd live "like royalty" in 116 of them.
| # | Country | Quality | Net (Mbps) | Safety | Essentials | Your life | 🛂 / 🪤 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇮🇸 Iceland (Reykjavik) | 94.7 | 249.5 | 92 | $2,905/mo | comfortable | — · —d |
| 2 | 🇨🇦 Canada (Toronto) | 94.2 | 262.6 | 88 | $1,925/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 3 | 🇳🇴 Norway (Oslo) | 94.1 | 236.3 | 96 | $2,051/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 4 | 🇳🇿 New Zealand (Auckland) | 93.4 | 222.5 | 91 | $2,008/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 5 | 🇩🇰 Denmark (Copenhagen) | 93.2 | 263.5 | 95 | $2,158/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 6 | 🇮🇪 Ireland (Dublin) | 92.1 | 215.9 | 96 | $1,922/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 7 | 🇸🇪 Sweden (Stockholm) | 91.4 | 217.6 | 93 | $1,945/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 8 | 🇲🇹 Malta (Valletta) | 91.3 | 266.4 | 97 | $1,403/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 9 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia (Ljubljana) | 91 | 274.1 | 97 | $1,385/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 10 | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (London) | 90.4 | 194.5 | 93 | $2,060/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 11 | 🇦🇺 Australia (Sydney) | 90.3 | 176.8 | 95 | $2,144/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 12 | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) | 89.8 | 223.3 | 91 | $2,279/mo | comfortable | — · —d |
| 13 | 🇸🇬 Singapore (Singapore) | 89.5 | 198.4 | 100 | $1,298/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 14 | 🇷🇴 Romania (Bucharest) | 89.3 | 269.3 | 93 | $918/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 15 | 🇫🇮 Finland (Helsinki) | 88.9 | 188.6 | 94 | $1,976/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 16 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands (Amsterdam) | 88.9 | 201.5 | 96 | $1,905/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 17 | 🇵🇹 Portugal (Lisbon) | 88.8 | 257.5 | 96 | $1,345/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 18 | 🇺🇸 United States (New York) | 88.4 | 271.2 | 65 | $2,410/mo | comfortable | — · 183d |
| 19 | 🇧🇪 Belgium (Brussels) | 88.4 | 209.1 | 94 | $1,851/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 20 | 🇪🇸 Spain (Barcelona) | 86.2 | 325.8 | 96 | $1,438/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 21 | 🇨🇭 Switzerland (Zürich) | 85.1 | 193.2 | 96 | $2,753/mo | comfortable | — · 90d |
| 22 | 🇸🇰 Slovakia (Bratislava) | 84.9 | 214 | 93 | $1,256/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 23 | 🇫🇷 France (Paris) | 84.8 | 299.8 | 92 | $1,716/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 24 | 🇯🇵 Japan (Tokyo) | 83.6 | 248 | 99 | $1,393/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 25 | 🇭🇺 Hungary (Budapest) | 83.2 | 315.3 | 96 | $1,094/mo | like royalty | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 26 | 🇱🇹 Lithuania (Vilnius) | 83 | 195.1 | 84 | $1,217/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 27 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus (Nicosia) | 82.8 | 202.9 | 95 | $1,406/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 28 | 🇵🇱 Poland (Warsaw) | 82.7 | 244.2 | 95 | $1,054/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 29 | 🇲🇩 Moldova (Chisinau) | 82.6 | 208.7 | 85 | $855/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 30 | 🇦🇹 Austria (Vienna) | 82.5 | 154.5 | 95 | $1,840/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 31 | 🇮🇱 Israel (Jerusalem) | 82.1 | 198.6 | 90 | $2,677/mo | comfortable | — · —d |
| 32 | 🇱🇻 Latvia (Riga) | 81.9 | 196.4 | 85 | $1,245/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · —d |
| 33 | 🇩🇪 Germany (Berlin) | 81.8 | 145.3 | 95 | $1,834/mo | very comfortable | — · 183d |
| 34 | 🇪🇪 Estonia (Tallinn) | 81.2 | 139.4 | 91 | $1,492/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · —d |
| 35 | 🇰🇷 South Korea (Seoul) | 80.6 | 273.4 | 97 | $1,206/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 36 | 🇧🇳 Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan) | 79.9 | 96.1 | 97 | $687/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 37 | 🇲🇾 Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) | 79.2 | 172.1 | 96 | $617/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 182d |
| 38 | 🇨🇿 Czechia (Prague) | 78.5 | 166.7 | 95 | $1,266/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 39 | 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Kiev) | 78.4 | 166.1 | 77 | $523/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 40 | 🇦🇩 Andorra (Andorra la Vella) | 78.2 | 154.5 | 84 | $1,500/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 41 | 🇯🇴 Jordan (Amman) | 77.4 | 208.7 | 94 | $852/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 42 | 🇷🇸 Serbia (Belgrade) | 77.1 | 183.9 | 92 | $925/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 43 | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (Sofia) | 76.9 | 151 | 93 | $842/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 44 | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (Dubai) | 76.7 | 201.6 | 96 | $1,266/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 45 | 🇦🇱 Albania (Tirane) | 75.3 | 142.7 | 92 | $883/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 46 | 🇭🇷 Croatia (Zagreb) | 75.1 | 121.3 | 96 | $1,109/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 47 | 🇵🇾 Paraguay (Asuncion) | 74.9 | 216.4 | 59 | $701/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 48 | 🇮🇹 Italy (Rome) | 74.7 | 153.5 | 97 | $1,513/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 49 | 🇧🇾 Belarus (Minsk) | 74.1 | 100.5 | 86 | $499/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 50 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius (Port Louis) | 73.7 | 101.7 | 86 | $734/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 51 | 🇵🇭 Philippines (Manila) | 73.4 | 144.8 | 74 | $637/mo | like royalty | — · 180d |
| 52 | 🇬🇷 Greece (Athens) | 73.3 | 129.1 | 95 | $1,279/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 53 | 🇺🇾 Uruguay (Montevideo) | 72.9 | 221.4 | 33 | $1,592/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 54 | 🇸🇷 Suriname (Paramaribo) | 72.7 | 167 | 61 | $605/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 55 | 🇦🇷 Argentina (Buenos Aires) | 72.6 | 192.7 | 73 | $925/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 56 | 🇧🇧 Barbados (Bridgetown) | 72.3 | 158.3 | 55 | $2,698/mo | comfortable | 🛂✗ · —d |
| 57 | 🇵🇦 Panama (Panama City) | 72.3 | 233.3 | 30 | $918/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 58 | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (Astana) | 71.7 | 114.1 | 85 | $639/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 59 | 🇫🇲 Micronesia (Palikir) | 71.3 | 70.8 | 95 | $2,482/mo | comfortable | — · —d |
| 60 | 🇲🇪 Montenegro (Podgorica) | 71.1 | 101.4 | 95 | $804/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 61 | 🇶🇦 Qatar (Doha) | 71 | 280.8 | 100 | $1,188/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 62 | 🇲🇻 Maldives (Male) | 70.9 | 68.7 | 96 | $1,186/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 63 | 🇴🇲 Oman (Muscat) | 70.9 | 169.3 | 99 | $908/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 64 | 🇨🇱 Chile (Santiago) | 70.8 | 366.2 | 62 | $996/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 65 | 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan (Baku) | 70.4 | 173.6 | 87 | $552/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 66 | 🇷🇺 Russia (Moscow) | 69.6 | 111.4 | 59 | $592/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 67 | 🇩🇿 Algeria (Algiers) | 69 | 110.1 | 93 | $621/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 68 | 🇵🇪 Peru (Lima) | 67.9 | 213.9 | 48 | $1,046/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 69 | 🇹🇭 Thailand (Chiang Mai) | 67.6 | 195 | 68 | $545/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 180d |
| 70 | 🇫🇯 Fiji (Suva) | 67.4 | 39.3 | 88 | $766/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 71 | 🇲🇦 Morocco (Rabat) | 66.8 | 83.3 | 90 | $788/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 72 | 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) | 66.4 | 93.6 | 90 | $570/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 73 | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago (Port-of-Spain) | 66.3 | 258.7 | 0 | $1,097/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 74 | 🇰🇼 Kuwait (Kuwait City) | 66.2 | 199.3 | 99 | $1,196/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 75 | 🇧🇴 Bolivia (La Paz) | 65.9 | 123.8 | 73 | $717/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 76 | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (Skopje) | 65.9 | 111.1 | 91 | $669/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 77 | 🇦🇲 Armenia (Yerevan) | 64.4 | 151.7 | 87 | $715/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 78 | 🇻🇳 Vietnam (Da Nang) | 64.4 | 189.8 | 70 | $539/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 79 | 🇬🇪 Georgia (Tbilisi) | 64 | 64.9 | 88 | $599/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 80 | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Bali) | 64 | 70 | 98 | $528/mo | like royalty | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 81 | 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan (Tashkent) | 64 | 70 | 92 | $478/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 82 | 🇪🇨 Ecuador (Quito) | 63.5 | 209.5 | 0 | $842/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 83 | 🇼🇸 Samoa (Apia) | 63.1 | 75.9 | 62 | $1,481/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 84 | 🇸🇻 El Salvador (San Salvador) | 62.3 | 152.9 | 53 | $840/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 85 | 🇹🇷 Türkiye (Istanbul) | 62.3 | 123.8 | 81 | $741/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 86 | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica (San Jose) | 61.7 | 216.8 | 0 | $1,287/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 87 | 🇧🇭 Bahrain (Manama) | 61.3 | 150.3 | 99 | $910/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 88 | 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) | 61.1 | 75.7 | 93 | $809/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 89 | 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown) | 61 | 180.1 | 0 | $1,201/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 90 | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) | 61 | 155.4 | 94 | $949/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 91 | 🇸🇨 Seychelles (Victoria) | 60.7 | 51.8 | 52 | $1,316/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 92 | 🇬🇾 Guyana (Georgetown) | 58.3 | 180.4 | 0 | $738/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 93 | 🇲🇬 Madagascar (Antananarivo) | 57.8 | 141.3 | — | $548/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 94 | 🇧🇷 Brazil (São Paulo) | 57.6 | 302.9 | 0 | $925/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 95 | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka (Colombo) | 57.5 | 35.4 | 80 | $474/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 96 | 🇲🇼 Malawi (Lilongwe) | 57 | 22.2 | 89 | $617/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 97 | 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John's) | 56.7 | 44.9 | 36 | $1,570/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 98 | 🇨🇴 Colombia (Medellín) | 56.6 | 195.3 | 0 | $734/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 99 | 🇧🇹 Bhutan (Thimphu) | 56.1 | 61.4 | 85 | $418/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 100 | 🇮🇳 India (Bengaluru) | 55.9 | 93.6 | 83 | $408/mo | like royalty | — · 182d |
| 101 | 🇹🇳 Tunisia (Tunis) | 55.9 | 34.3 | 72 | $541/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 102 | 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands (Honiara) | 55.7 | 58.1 | — | $1,786/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 103 | 🇹🇯 Tajikistan (Dushanbe) | 55 | 32.1 | 95 | $439/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 104 | 🇮🇷 Iran (Tehran) | 54.8 | 35.7 | 86 | $493/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 105 | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua (Managua) | 54.8 | 117.5 | 32 | $628/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 106 | 🇹🇿 Tanzania (Dodoma) | 54.2 | 32.4 | 78 | $550/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 107 | 🇿🇲 Zambia (Lusaka) | 54.2 | 29.3 | 69 | $610/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 108 | 🇨🇳 China (Shanghai) | 53.9 | 31.4 | 97 | $962/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 109 | 🇩🇲 Dominica (Roseau) | 53.8 | 115.4 | 0 | $1,089/mo | like royalty | 🛂✗ · —d |
| 110 | 🇧🇸 Bahamas (Nassau) | 53.7 | 104.6 | 0 | $2,258/mo | comfortable | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 111 | 🇰🇪 Kenya (Nairobi) | 53.5 | 37.4 | 71 | $608/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 112 | 🇱🇧 Lebanon (Beirut) | 53.1 | 16.2 | 87 | $748/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 113 | 🇲🇽 Mexico (Mexico City) | 53 | 142.3 | 0 | $1,122/mo | like royalty | 🛂✗ · 183d |
| 114 | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (Harare) | 52.8 | 40 | 59 | $1,049/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 115 | 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia (Castries) | 52.6 | 108.8 | 0 | $1,076/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 116 | 🇯🇲 Jamaica (Kingston) | 51.2 | 111.5 | 0 | $1,355/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 117 | 🇿🇦 South Africa (Cape Town) | 51.2 | 62.8 | 0 | $821/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · 183d |
| 118 | 🇬🇩 Grenada (Saint George's) | 51.1 | 43.1 | 18 | $1,329/mo | very comfortable | 🛂✗ · —d |
| 119 | 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Phnom Penh) | 50.4 | 63 | — | $692/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 120 | 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde (Praia) | 50.1 | 63.7 | 58 | $967/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 121 | 🇲🇳 Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar) | 49.8 | 110.6 | 65 | $657/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 122 | 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Naypyidaw) | 49.7 | 39.4 | 85 | $231/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 123 | 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre) | 49.1 | 55.9 | 0 | $1,628/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 124 | 🇳🇵 Nepal (Kathmandu) | 49 | 114.9 | 87 | $433/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 125 | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo) | 48.9 | 128.5 | 34 | $790/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 126 | 🇳🇦 Namibia (Windhoek) | 48.8 | 40.1 | 33 | $774/mo | like royalty | 🛂✓ · —d |
| 127 | 🇷🇼 Rwanda (Kigali) | 48.8 | 30.3 | 78 | $512/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 128 | 🇲🇿 Mozambique (Maputo) | 48.7 | 32.4 | — | $729/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 129 | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) | 48.4 | 40.8 | — | $1,345/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 130 | 🇦🇴 Angola (Luanda) | 48.1 | 30.6 | 75 | $685/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 131 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou) | 47.6 | 63.9 | 92 | $678/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 132 | 🇧🇼 Botswana (Gaborone) | 47.2 | 46.7 | 32 | $736/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 133 | 🇱🇾 Libya (Tripoli) | 47.1 | 33.2 | — | $713/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 134 | 🇧🇯 Benin (Porto-Novo) | 47 | 22.4 | 93 | $676/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 135 | 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau (Bissau) | 46.9 | 59 | 93 | $653/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 136 | 🇱🇸 Lesotho (Maseru) | 46.9 | 42.1 | — | $676/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 137 | 🇱🇷 Liberia (Monrovia) | 46.8 | 45 | 81 | $1,019/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 138 | 🇸🇿 Eswatini (Mbabane) | 46.7 | 32.3 | 25 | $676/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 139 | 🇸🇳 Senegal (Dakar) | 46 | 64.6 | 98 | $699/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 140 | 🇧🇮 Burundi (Bujumbura) | 45.4 | 21 | 66 | $478/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 141 | 🇧🇿 Belize (Belmopan) | 45.1 | 63.6 | 0 | $1,158/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 142 | 🇬🇭 Ghana (Accra) | 45 | 50 | 89 | $669/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 143 | 🇬🇦 Gabon (Libreville) | 44.9 | 66.8 | — | $720/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 144 | 🇱🇦 Laos (Vientiane) | 44.9 | 49.6 | — | $377/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 145 | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh (Dhaka) | 44.6 | 60.7 | 86 | $484/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 146 | 🇪🇬 Egypt (Cairo) | 43.8 | 27 | 92 | $254/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 147 | 🇬🇹 Guatemala (Guatemala City) | 43.2 | 144.7 | 0 | $855/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 148 | 🇭🇳 Honduras (Tegucigalpa) | 43.2 | 124.2 | 0 | $920/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 149 | 🇲🇷 Mauritania (Nouakchott) | 42.8 | 67.6 | 94 | $599/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 150 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone (Freetown) | 41.9 | 9 | 87 | $410/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 151 | 🇺🇬 Uganda (Kampala) | 41.4 | 54.2 | 46 | $633/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 152 | 🇸🇾 Syria (Damascus) | 40.4 | 7.8 | — | $258/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 153 | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) | 40.2 | 41.8 | 49 | $646/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 154 | 🇵🇰 Pakistan (Islamabad) | 39.7 | 34.1 | 74 | $379/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 155 | 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) | 39.7 | 57.5 | — | $657/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 156 | 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro) | 38.5 | 76.3 | — | $727/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 157 | 🇮🇶 Iraq (Baghdad) | 36.7 | 46.6 | 43 | $738/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 158 | 🇸🇩 Sudan (Khartoum) | 33.1 | 15.7 | — | $429/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 159 | 🇨🇩 DR Congo (Kinshasa) | 32.6 | 24.6 | — | $994/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 160 | 🇲🇱 Mali (Bamako) | 32.2 | 66.8 | — | $608/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 161 | 🇹🇬 Togo (Lome) | 31.7 | 40.6 | — | $630/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 162 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria (Lagos) | 29.8 | 27.2 | 6 | $205/mo | like royalty | — · 183d |
| 163 | 🇬🇲 Gambia (Banjul) | 29.3 | 36.9 | — | $482/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 164 | 🇭🇹 Haiti (Port-au-Prince) | 28.2 | 39.8 | 0 | $1,999/mo | very comfortable | — · —d |
| 165 | 🇨🇲 Cameroon (Yaounde) | 28.1 | 13.7 | 59 | $630/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 166 | 🇬🇳 Guinea (Conakry) | 28.1 | 23.4 | — | $694/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
| 167 | 🇨🇫 Central African Republic (Bangui) | 26.1 | 35.9 | 0 | $809/mo | like royalty | — · —d |
🛂 = nomad-visa program (✓ your budget meets its income floor) · 🪤 = days to tax residency. Curated country-level estimates (2026-07-12) — city variation is real.
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Frequently asked questions
- How is the quality score calculated?
- Five country-level metrics — median broadband speed, safety, healthcare, air quality, and how far English gets you — combined as a weighted mean you control with the priority sliders. Internet is normalized so 250 Mbps scores 100.
- Where does the data come from?
- Three metrics are objective, refreshed at build time (last: 2026-07-12): safety from the World Bank intentional-homicide rate, healthcare from WHO's UHC service coverage index — whether you can actually get care, not how long people live — and air quality from WHO PM2.5 monitoring. Life expectancy is shown beside the scores but never scored. Median broadband speed and English usefulness stay curated (no clean free feed). The cost side uses this site's Pint & Property essentials basket.
- What does 'lives like royalty' mean?
- Your monthly budget divided by the local cost of single-person essentials: under 1× is out of budget, 1–1.5× comfortable, 1.5–2.5× very comfortable, and 2.5×+ is royalty territory.
- Why country-level instead of cities?
- Our purchasing-power cost data is country-level, and pretending otherwise would be false precision. Representative cities are shown as labels, and each score note flags where city variation is big.
- Can AI agents query the matrix?
- Yes — GET /api/livability.json with optional budget, minInternet, minSafety, maxBudget and weights params, or the rank_livability MCP tool. No key required.
For AI agents: GET /api/livability.json?minInternet=80&maxBudget=3000 — see /llms.txt and the rank_livability MCP tool.