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title: "Is Norway a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Norway (Oslo): 236.3 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 89/100 — essentials ≈ $2,051/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/norway/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 3/167

# Is 🇳🇴 Norway (Oslo) a good place to live?

Quality score **94/100** against essentials of **$2,051/month**. Safe, clean, expensive — the full Nordic package.

## The five metrics

Internet 95 236.3 Mbps median broadband, 99% online

Safety 96 0.7 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 89 UHC service coverage 89/100 (2023)

Air quality 99 PM2.5 5.5 µg/m³ (2023)

English 92 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 1.95 · corruption control 1.96 · stability 0.9 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $85.93 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $31.6/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,051) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.5× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.4× | very comfortable |

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/norway/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇱🇷 Liberia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/liberia/) — quality 46.8, essentials $1,019/mo
- [🇺🇾 Uruguay](https://geo-parity.com/livability/uruguay/) — quality 72.9, essentials $1,592/mo
- [🇸🇨 Seychelles](https://geo-parity.com/livability/seychelles/) — quality 60.7, essentials $1,316/mo
- [🇳🇿 New Zealand](https://geo-parity.com/livability/new-zealand/) — quality 93.4, essentials $2,008/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Norway a good place to live for remote workers?**: Norway scores 94/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 236.3 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 89, air quality 99, english 92) — rank 3 of 167. Safe, clean, expensive — the full Nordic package.
- **How fast is the internet in Norway?**: Median fixed broadband is around 236.3 Mbps. Safe, clean, expensive — the full Nordic package.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Norway?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,051/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.5× 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/norway/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json