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title: "Is Oman a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Oman (Muscat): 169.3 Mbps internet, safety 99/100, healthcare 73/100 — essentials ≈ $908/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 63/167

# Is 🇴🇲 Oman (Muscat) a good place to live?

Quality score **71/100** against essentials of **$908/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 68 169.3 Mbps median broadband, 95.3% online

Safety 99 0.1 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 73 UHC service coverage 73/100 (2023)

Air quality 44 PM2.5 30.4 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 0.45 · corruption control 0.51 · stability 0.63 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $73.73 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $26.01/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($908) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.5× | 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

- [🇵🇱 Poland](https://geo-parity.com/livability/poland/) — quality 82.7, essentials $1,054/mo
- [🇦🇷 Argentina](https://geo-parity.com/livability/argentina/) — quality 72.6, essentials $925/mo
- [🇵🇦 Panama](https://geo-parity.com/livability/panama/) — quality 72.3, essentials $918/mo
- [🇨🇴 Colombia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/colombia/) — quality 56.6, essentials $734/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Oman a good place to live for remote workers?**: Oman scores 71/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 169.3 Mbps, safety 99, healthcare 73, air quality 44; English not scored) — rank 63 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Oman?**: Median fixed broadband is around 169.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Oman?**: Single-person essentials run about $908/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.3× 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/oman/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json