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title: "Is Ireland a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Ireland (Dublin): 215.9 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $1,922/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/ireland/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 6/167

# Is 🇮🇪 Ireland (Dublin) a good place to live?

Quality score **92/100** against essentials of **$1,922/month**. Anglophone EU base; public healthcare waitlists push many to private cover.

## The five metrics

Internet 86 215.9 Mbps median broadband, 97.2% online

Safety 96 0.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 96 PM2.5 6.8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 100 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**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.59 · corruption control 1.57 · stability 0.71 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $36.81 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $21.04/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,922) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.6× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.6× | 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/).

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

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇨🇷 Costa Rica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/costa-rica/) — quality 61.7, essentials $1,287/mo
- [🇧🇪 Belgium](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belgium/) — quality 88.4, essentials $1,851/mo
- [🇲🇽 Mexico](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mexico/) — quality 53, essentials $1,122/mo
- [🇸🇪 Sweden](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sweden/) — quality 91.4, essentials $1,945/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Ireland a good place to live for remote workers?**: Ireland scores 92/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 215.9 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 82, air quality 96, english 100) — rank 6 of 167. Anglophone EU base; public healthcare waitlists push many to private cover.
- **How fast is the internet in Ireland?**: Median fixed broadband is around 215.9 Mbps. Anglophone EU base; public healthcare waitlists push many to private cover.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Ireland?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,922/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.6× 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/ireland/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json