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title: "Is Philippines a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Philippines (Manila): 144.8 Mbps internet, safety 74/100, healthcare 69/100 — essentials ≈ $637/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 51/167

# Is 🇵🇭 Philippines (Manila) a good place to live?

Quality score **73/100** against essentials of **$637/month**. English near-universal and costs low; Manila traffic and typhoon season are the trade.

## The five metrics

Internet 58 144.8 Mbps median broadband, 67.3% online

Safety 74 4.3 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 69 UHC service coverage 69/100 (2023)

Air quality 74 PM2.5 16.9 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.57 · corruption control -0.58 · stability -0.77 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $15.51 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $6.18/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($637) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.1× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 7.8× | 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/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **180 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/philippines/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇧🇳 Brunei](https://geo-parity.com/livability/brunei/) — quality 79.9, essentials $687/mo
- [🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kyrgyzstan/) — quality 66.4, essentials $570/mo
- [🇳🇵 Nepal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nepal/) — quality 49, essentials $433/mo
- [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/) — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Philippines a good place to live for remote workers?**: Philippines scores 73/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 144.8 Mbps, safety 74, healthcare 69, air quality 74, english 92) — rank 51 of 167. English near-universal and costs low; Manila traffic and typhoon season are the trade.
- **How fast is the internet in Philippines?**: Median fixed broadband is around 144.8 Mbps. English near-universal and costs low; Manila traffic and typhoon season are the trade.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Philippines?**: Single-person essentials run about $637/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.7× 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/philippines/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json