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title: "Is Greece a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Greece (Athens): 129.1 Mbps internet, safety 95/100, healthcare 77/100 — essentials ≈ $1,279/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/greece/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 52/167

# Is 🇬🇷 Greece (Athens) a good place to live?

Quality score **73/100** against essentials of **$1,279/month**. Slower broadband than western EU; island life trades speed for scenery.

## The five metrics

Internet 52 129.1 Mbps median broadband, 86.3% online

Safety 95 0.8 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 77 UHC service coverage 77/100 (2023)

Air quality 78 PM2.5 15 µg/m³ (2023)

English 65 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**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.3 · corruption control 0.3 · stability 0.14 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $29.35 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.3/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,279) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.6× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.3× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.9× | 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/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇨🇳 China](https://geo-parity.com/livability/china/) — quality 53.9, essentials $962/mo
- [🇨🇾 Cyprus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cyprus/) — quality 82.8, essentials $1,406/mo
- [🇰🇼 Kuwait](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kuwait/) — quality 66.2, essentials $1,196/mo
- [🇶🇦 Qatar](https://geo-parity.com/livability/qatar/) — quality 71, essentials $1,188/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Greece a good place to live for remote workers?**: Greece scores 73/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 129.1 Mbps, safety 95, healthcare 77, air quality 78, english 65) — rank 52 of 167. Slower broadband than western EU; island life trades speed for scenery.
- **How fast is the internet in Greece?**: Median fixed broadband is around 129.1 Mbps. Slower broadband than western EU; island life trades speed for scenery.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Greece?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,279/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.3× 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/greece/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json