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title: "Is India a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "India (Bengaluru): 93.6 Mbps internet, safety 83/100, healthcare 69/100 — essentials ≈ $408/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 100/167

# Is 🇮🇳 India (Bengaluru) a good place to live?

Quality score **56/100** against essentials of **$408/month**. Bengaluru tech scene with English everywhere; northern winter air is among the world's worst.

## The five metrics

Internet 37 93.6 Mbps median broadband, 70% online

Safety 83 2.8 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 69 UHC service coverage 69/100 (2023)

Air quality 15 PM2.5 43.1 µg/m³ (2023)

English 75 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 -0.04 · corruption control -0.3 · stability -0.79 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $5.43 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2.02/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($408) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 4.9× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 7.4× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 12.3× | 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 **182 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/india/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇧🇹 Bhutan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bhutan/) — quality 56.1, essentials $418/mo
- [🇺🇿 Uzbekistan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uzbekistan/) — quality 64, essentials $478/mo
- [🇳🇬 Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nigeria/) — quality 29.8, essentials $205/mo
- [🇲🇾 Malaysia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/malaysia/) — quality 79.2, essentials $617/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is India a good place to live for remote workers?**: India scores 56/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 93.6 Mbps, safety 83, healthcare 69, air quality 15, english 75) — rank 100 of 167. Bengaluru tech scene with English everywhere; northern winter air is among the world's worst.
- **How fast is the internet in India?**: Median fixed broadband is around 93.6 Mbps. Bengaluru tech scene with English everywhere; northern winter air is among the world's worst.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in India?**: Single-person essentials run about $408/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (7.4× 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/india/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json