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title: "Is Montenegro a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Montenegro (Podgorica): 101.4 Mbps internet, safety 95/100, healthcare 70/100 — essentials ≈ $804/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 60/167

# Is 🇲🇪 Montenegro (Podgorica) a good place to live?

Quality score **71/100** against essentials of **$804/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 41 101.4 Mbps median broadband, 88.9% online

Safety 95 0.8 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 70 UHC service coverage 70/100 (2023)

Air quality 79 PM2.5 14.6 µg/m³ (2023)

## 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 0.18 · corruption control -0.06 · stability 0.33 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $25.14 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.52/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($804) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.5× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.2× | 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/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇿🇲 Zambia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/zambia/) — quality 54.2, essentials $610/mo
- [🇫🇯 Fiji](https://geo-parity.com/livability/fiji/) — quality 67.4, essentials $766/mo
- [🇰🇪 Kenya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kenya/) — quality 53.5, essentials $608/mo
- [🇳🇮 Nicaragua](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nicaragua/) — quality 54.8, essentials $628/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/montenegro/) · [retiring in Montenegro](https://geo-parity.com/fire/montenegro/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Montenegro a good place to live for remote workers?**: Montenegro scores 71/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 101.4 Mbps, safety 95, healthcare 70, air quality 79; English not scored) — rank 60 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Montenegro?**: Median fixed broadband is around 101.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Montenegro?**: Single-person essentials run about $804/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.7× 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/montenegro/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json