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title: "Is Brazil a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Brazil (São Paulo): 302.9 Mbps internet, safety 0/100, healthcare 84/100 — essentials ≈ $925/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/brazil/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 94/167

# Is 🇧🇷 Brazil (São Paulo) a good place to live?

Quality score **58/100** against essentials of **$925/month**. Fiber surprisingly fast and cheap; big-city security awareness required.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 302.9 Mbps median broadband, 84.5% online

Safety 0 19.3 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 84 UHC service coverage 84/100 (2023)

Air quality 64 PM2.5 21.3 µg/m³ (2023)

English 40 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.45 · corruption control -0.41 · stability -0.52 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $17.09 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $4.96/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($925) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.2× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.4× | 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/).

🛂 **Digital Nomad Visa (VITEM XIV)** — income floor ≈ $1,500/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

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

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇪🇹 Ethiopia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ethiopia/) — quality 40.2, essentials $646/mo
- [🇿🇦 South Africa](https://geo-parity.com/livability/south-africa/) — quality 51.2, essentials $821/mo
- [🇬🇦 Gabon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/gabon/) — quality 44.9, essentials $720/mo
- [🇨🇿 Czechia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/czechia/) — quality 78.5, essentials $1,266/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Brazil a good place to live for remote workers?**: Brazil scores 58/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 302.9 Mbps, safety 0, healthcare 84, air quality 64, english 40) — rank 94 of 167. Fiber surprisingly fast and cheap; big-city security awareness required.
- **How fast is the internet in Brazil?**: Median fixed broadband is around 302.9 Mbps. Fiber surprisingly fast and cheap; big-city security awareness required.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Brazil?**: Single-person essentials run about $925/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.2× 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/brazil/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json