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title: "Is France a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "France (Paris): 299.8 Mbps internet, safety 92/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $1,716/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 23/167

# Is 🇫🇷 France (Paris) a good place to live?

Quality score **85/100** against essentials of **$1,716/month**. Top-tier fibre in cities and strong universal healthcare; English less common outside Paris.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 299.8 Mbps median broadband, 88.7% online

Safety 92 1.3 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 90 PM2.5 9.3 µg/m³ (2023)

English 60 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.98 · corruption control 1.22 · stability -0.24 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $35.76 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.51/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,716) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.2× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.7× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.9× | 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/france/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇩🇲 Dominica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/dominica/) — quality 53.8, essentials $1,089/mo
- [🇮🇹 Italy](https://geo-parity.com/livability/italy/) — quality 74.7, essentials $1,513/mo
- [🇮🇶 Iraq](https://geo-parity.com/livability/iraq/) — quality 36.7, essentials $738/mo
- [🇨🇦 Canada](https://geo-parity.com/livability/canada/) — quality 94.2, essentials $1,925/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is France a good place to live for remote workers?**: France scores 85/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 299.8 Mbps, safety 92, healthcare 82, air quality 90, english 60) — rank 23 of 167. Top-tier fibre in cities and strong universal healthcare; English less common outside Paris.
- **How fast is the internet in France?**: Median fixed broadband is around 299.8 Mbps. Top-tier fibre in cities and strong universal healthcare; English less common outside Paris.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in France?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,716/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.7× 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/france/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json