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title: "Is Cyprus a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Cyprus (Nicosia): 202.9 Mbps internet, safety 95/100, healthcare 76/100 — essentials ≈ $1,406/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 27/167

# Is 🇨🇾 Cyprus (Nicosia) a good place to live?

Quality score **83/100** against essentials of **$1,406/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 81 202.9 Mbps median broadband, 89.6% online

Safety 95 0.8 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 76 UHC service coverage 76/100 (2023)

Air quality 79 PM2.5 14.6 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.69 · corruption control 0.53 · stability 0.39 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $43.66 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.52/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,406) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.4× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.1× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.6× | 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/cyprus/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇶🇦 Qatar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/qatar/) — quality 71, essentials $1,188/mo
- [🇲🇻 Maldives](https://geo-parity.com/livability/maldives/) — quality 70.9, essentials $1,186/mo
- [🇪🇸 Spain](https://geo-parity.com/livability/spain/) — quality 86.2, essentials $1,438/mo
- [🇯🇵 Japan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/japan/) — quality 83.6, essentials $1,393/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Cyprus a good place to live for remote workers?**: Cyprus scores 83/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 202.9 Mbps, safety 95, healthcare 76, air quality 79; English not scored) — rank 27 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Cyprus?**: Median fixed broadband is around 202.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Cyprus?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,406/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.1× 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/cyprus/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json