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title: "Is Canada a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Canada (Toronto): 262.6 Mbps internet, safety 88/100, healthcare 92/100 — essentials ≈ $1,925/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/canada/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
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Livability · rank 2/167

# Is 🇨🇦 Canada (Toronto) a good place to live?

Quality score **94/100** against essentials of **$1,925/month**. Safe and clean; healthcare universal but wait times bite, wildfire smoke weeks now annual.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 262.6 Mbps median broadband, 94.4% online

Safety 88 2 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 92 UHC service coverage 92/100 (2023)

Air quality 91 PM2.5 9 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 1.46 · corruption control 1.63 · stability 0.6 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $70.87 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $22.84/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,925) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.6× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.6× | 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/).

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

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇱🇨 Saint Lucia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-lucia/) — quality 52.6, essentials $1,076/mo
- [🇮🇹 Italy](https://geo-parity.com/livability/italy/) — quality 74.7, essentials $1,513/mo
- [🇫🇷 France](https://geo-parity.com/livability/france/) — quality 84.8, essentials $1,716/mo
- [🇩🇲 Dominica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/dominica/) — quality 53.8, essentials $1,089/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Canada a good place to live for remote workers?**: Canada scores 94/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 262.6 Mbps, safety 88, healthcare 92, air quality 91, english 100) — rank 2 of 167. Safe and clean; healthcare universal but wait times bite, wildfire smoke weeks now annual.
- **How fast is the internet in Canada?**: Median fixed broadband is around 262.6 Mbps. Safe and clean; healthcare universal but wait times bite, wildfire smoke weeks now annual.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Canada?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,925/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/canada/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json