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title: "Is Hungary a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Hungary (Budapest): 315.3 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 80/100 — essentials ≈ $1,094/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/hungary/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 25/167

# Is 🇭🇺 Hungary (Budapest) a good place to live?

Quality score **83/100** against essentials of **$1,094/month**. Budapest offers big-city life cheap; public healthcare underfunded.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 315.3 Mbps median broadband, 93.8% online

Safety 96 0.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 80 UHC service coverage 80/100 (2023)

Air quality 85 PM2.5 11.6 µg/m³ (2023)

English 55 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 0.19 · corruption control 0.04 · stability 0.44 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $16.27 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $15.53/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,094) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.8× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 4.6× | 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/).

🛂 **White Card** — income floor ≈ $3,250/month. [Visa finder →](https://geo-parity.com/nomad-visas/)

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/hungary/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇲🇳 Mongolia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mongolia/) — quality 49.8, essentials $657/mo
- [🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bosnia-and-herzegovina/) — quality 61.1, essentials $809/mo
- [🇪🇨 Ecuador](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ecuador/) — quality 63.5, essentials $842/mo
- [🇸🇩 Sudan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sudan/) — quality 33.1, essentials $429/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Hungary a good place to live for remote workers?**: Hungary scores 83/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 315.3 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 80, air quality 85, english 55) — rank 25 of 167. Budapest offers big-city life cheap; public healthcare underfunded.
- **How fast is the internet in Hungary?**: Median fixed broadband is around 315.3 Mbps. Budapest offers big-city life cheap; public healthcare underfunded.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Hungary?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,094/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (2.7× 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/hungary/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json