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title: "Is Finland a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Finland (Helsinki): 188.6 Mbps internet, safety 94/100, healthcare 86/100 — essentials ≈ $1,976/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/finland/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 15/167

# Is 🇫🇮 Finland (Helsinki) a good place to live?

Quality score **89/100** against essentials of **$1,976/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 75 188.6 Mbps median broadband, 93.7% online

Safety 94 1 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 86 UHC service coverage 86/100 (2023)

Air quality 100 PM2.5 4.5 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**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 2.02 · corruption control 2.19 · stability 0.83 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $42.58 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $5.57/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,976) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.5× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.5× | 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

- [🇦🇹 Austria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/austria/) — quality 82.5, essentials $1,840/mo
- [🇩🇪 Germany](https://geo-parity.com/livability/germany/) — quality 81.8, essentials $1,834/mo
- [🇨🇲 Cameroon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cameroon/) — quality 28.1, essentials $630/mo
- [🇺🇾 Uruguay](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uruguay/) — quality 72.9, essentials $1,592/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Finland a good place to live for remote workers?**: Finland scores 89/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 188.6 Mbps, safety 94, healthcare 86, air quality 100; English not scored) — rank 15 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Finland?**: Median fixed broadband is around 188.6 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Finland?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,976/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.5× 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/finland/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json