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title: "Is Belgium a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Belgium (Brussels): 209.1 Mbps internet, safety 94/100, healthcare 86/100 — essentials ≈ $1,851/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 19/167

# Is 🇧🇪 Belgium (Brussels) a good place to live?

Quality score **89/100** against essentials of **$1,851/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 84 209.1 Mbps median broadband, 95.8% online

Safety 94 1.1 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 86 UHC service coverage 86/100 (2023)

Air quality 90 PM2.5 9.6 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**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.28 · corruption control 1.47 · stability 0.12 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $42.07 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $21.03/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,851) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.1× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.6× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.7× | 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

- [🇮🇪 Ireland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ireland/) — quality 92.1, essentials $1,922/mo
- [🇨🇷 Costa Rica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/costa-rica/) — quality 61.7, essentials $1,287/mo
- [🇲🇽 Mexico](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mexico/) — quality 53, essentials $1,122/mo
- [🇸🇪 Sweden](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sweden/) — quality 91.4, essentials $1,945/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/belgium/) · [retiring in Belgium](https://geo-parity.com/fire/belgium/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Belgium a good place to live for remote workers?**: Belgium scores 89/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 209.1 Mbps, safety 94, healthcare 86, air quality 90; English not scored) — rank 19 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Belgium?**: Median fixed broadband is around 209.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Belgium?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,851/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.6× 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/belgium/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json