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title: "Is Italy a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Italy (Rome): 153.5 Mbps internet, safety 97/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $1,513/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/italy/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 48/167

# Is 🇮🇹 Italy (Rome) a good place to live?

Quality score **75/100** against essentials of **$1,513/month**. Healthcare strong; broadband and bureaucracy lag; Po Valley air quality is poor.

## The five metrics

Internet 61 153.5 Mbps median broadband, 89.2% online

Safety 97 0.6 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 81 PM2.5 13.7 µg/m³ (2023)

English 52 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 0.62 · corruption control 0.55 · stability 0.31 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $31.46 /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 ($1,513) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.3× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.0× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.3× | 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/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇫🇷 France](https://geo-parity.com/livability/france/) — quality 84.8, essentials $1,716/mo
- [🇩🇲 Dominica](https://geo-parity.com/livability/dominica/) — quality 53.8, essentials $1,089/mo
- [🇨🇦 Canada](https://geo-parity.com/livability/canada/) — quality 94.2, essentials $1,925/mo
- [🇱🇨 Saint Lucia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-lucia/) — quality 52.6, essentials $1,076/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Italy a good place to live for remote workers?**: Italy scores 75/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 153.5 Mbps, safety 97, healthcare 82, air quality 81, english 52) — rank 48 of 167. Healthcare strong; broadband and bureaucracy lag; Po Valley air quality is poor.
- **How fast is the internet in Italy?**: Median fixed broadband is around 153.5 Mbps. Healthcare strong; broadband and bureaucracy lag; Po Valley air quality is poor.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Italy?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,513/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.0× 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/italy/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json