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title: "Is Colombia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Colombia (Medellín): 195.3 Mbps internet, safety 0/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $734/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/colombia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 98/167

# Is 🇨🇴 Colombia (Medellín) a good place to live?

Quality score **57/100** against essentials of **$734/month**. Medellín's spring-all-year and strong healthcare; street-smarts non-negotiable.

## The five metrics

Internet 78 195.3 Mbps median broadband, 79.3% online

Safety 0 24.9 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 78 PM2.5 14.8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 45 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 -0.56 · corruption control -0.29 · stability -0.97 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $17.44 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.35/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($734) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.8× | 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/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇸🇩 Sudan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sudan/) — quality 33.1, essentials $429/mo
- [🇴🇲 Oman](https://geo-parity.com/livability/oman/) — quality 70.9, essentials $908/mo
- [🇭🇺 Hungary](https://geo-parity.com/livability/hungary/) — quality 83.2, essentials $1,094/mo
- [🇵🇱 Poland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/poland/) — quality 82.7, essentials $1,054/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Colombia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Colombia scores 57/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 195.3 Mbps, safety 0, healthcare 82, air quality 78, english 45) — rank 98 of 167. Medellín's spring-all-year and strong healthcare; street-smarts non-negotiable.
- **How fast is the internet in Colombia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 195.3 Mbps. Medellín's spring-all-year and strong healthcare; street-smarts non-negotiable.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Colombia?**: Single-person essentials run about $734/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.1× 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/colombia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json