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title: "Is Antigua and Barbuda a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John's): 44.9 Mbps internet, safety 36/100, healthcare 81/100 — essentials ≈ $1,570/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 97/167

# Is 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John's) a good place to live?

Quality score **57/100** against essentials of **$1,570/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 18 44.9 Mbps median broadband, 72.7% online

Safety 36 10.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 81 UHC service coverage 81/100 (2023)

Air quality 92 PM2.5 8.7 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.6 · corruption control 0.28 · stability 1.07 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $59.26 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $42.59/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,570) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.3× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.2× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea](https://geo-parity.com/livability/papua-new-guinea/) — quality 48.4, essentials $1,345/mo
- [🇺🇸 United States](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-states/) — quality 88.4, essentials $2,410/mo
- [🇯🇲 Jamaica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/jamaica/) — quality 51.2, essentials $1,355/mo
- [🇬🇩 Grenada](https://geo-parity.com/livability/grenada/) — quality 51.1, essentials $1,329/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/antigua-and-barbuda/) · [retiring in Antigua and Barbuda](https://geo-parity.com/fire/antigua-and-barbuda/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Antigua and Barbuda a good place to live for remote workers?**: Antigua and Barbuda scores 57/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 44.9 Mbps, safety 36, healthcare 81, air quality 92; English not scored) — rank 97 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Antigua and Barbuda?**: Median fixed broadband is around 44.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Antigua and Barbuda?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,570/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.9× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/antigua-and-barbuda/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json