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title: "Is Brunei a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan): 96.1 Mbps internet, safety 97/100, healthcare 84/100 — essentials ≈ $687/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 36/167

# Is 🇧🇳 Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan) a good place to live?

Quality score **80/100** against essentials of **$687/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 38 96.1 Mbps median broadband, 96.3% online

Safety 97 0.5 homicides/100k (2013)

Healthcare 84 UHC service coverage 84/100 (2023)

Air quality 100 PM2.5 4.8 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 0.59 · corruption control 1.19 · stability 1.2 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $28.92 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $13.35/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($687) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.4× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.3× | 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

- [🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kyrgyzstan/) — quality 66.4, essentials $570/mo
- [🇵🇭 Philippines](https://geo-parity.com/livability/philippines/) — quality 73.4, essentials $637/mo
- [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/) — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo
- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Brunei a good place to live for remote workers?**: Brunei scores 80/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 96.1 Mbps, safety 97, healthcare 84, air quality 100; English not scored) — rank 36 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Brunei?**: Median fixed broadband is around 96.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Brunei?**: Single-person essentials run about $687/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.4× 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/brunei/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json