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title: "Is Australia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Australia (Sydney): 176.8 Mbps internet, safety 95/100, healthcare 89/100 — essentials ≈ $2,144/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 11/167

# Is 🇦🇺 Australia (Sydney) a good place to live?

Quality score **90/100** against essentials of **$2,144/month**. Great air, healthcare and lifestyle; NBN broadband is the national grumble.

## The five metrics

Internet 71 176.8 Mbps median broadband, 96.1% online

Safety 95 0.9 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 89 UHC service coverage 89/100 (2023)

Air quality 97 PM2.5 6.3 µg/m³ (2023)

English 100 day-to-day usability

## 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**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.47 · corruption control 1.85 · stability 0.79 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $55.83 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $15.68/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,144) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 0.9× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.4× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.3× | very comfortable |

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/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/australia/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇼🇸 Samoa](https://geo-parity.com/livability/samoa/) — quality 63.1, essentials $1,481/mo
- [🇩🇰 Denmark](https://geo-parity.com/livability/denmark/) — quality 93.2, essentials $2,158/mo
- [🇬🇳 Guinea](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guinea/) — quality 28.1, essentials $694/mo
- [🇬🇧 United Kingdom](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-kingdom/) — quality 90.4, essentials $2,060/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-australia/) · [retiring in Australia](https://geo-parity.com/fire/australia/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Australia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Australia scores 90/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 176.8 Mbps, safety 95, healthcare 89, air quality 97, english 100) — rank 11 of 167. Great air, healthcare and lifestyle; NBN broadband is the national grumble.
- **How fast is the internet in Australia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 176.8 Mbps. Great air, healthcare and lifestyle; NBN broadband is the national grumble.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Australia?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,144/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.4× 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/australia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json