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title: "Is North Macedonia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "North Macedonia (Skopje): 111.1 Mbps internet, safety 91/100, healthcare 69/100 — essentials ≈ $669/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 76/167

# Is 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (Skopje) a good place to live?

Quality score **66/100** against essentials of **$669/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 44 111.1 Mbps median broadband, 93.1% online

Safety 91 1.5 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 69 UHC service coverage 69/100 (2023)

Air quality 59 PM2.5 23.3 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 -0.22 · corruption control -0.33 · stability 0.16 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $15.34 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $10.16/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($669) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.0× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.5× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.5× | 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

- [🇹🇿 Tanzania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tanzania/) — quality 54.2, essentials $550/mo
- [🇷🇴 Romania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/romania/) — quality 89.3, essentials $918/mo
- [🇲🇩 Moldova](https://geo-parity.com/livability/moldova/) — quality 82.6, essentials $855/mo
- [🇲🇺 Mauritius](https://geo-parity.com/livability/mauritius/) — quality 73.7, essentials $734/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/north-macedonia/) · [retiring in North Macedonia](https://geo-parity.com/fire/north-macedonia/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is North Macedonia a good place to live for remote workers?**: North Macedonia scores 66/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 111.1 Mbps, safety 91, healthcare 69, air quality 59; English not scored) — rank 76 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in North Macedonia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 111.1 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in North Macedonia?**: Single-person essentials run about $669/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.5× 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/north-macedonia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json