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title: "Is Poland a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Poland (Warsaw): 244.2 Mbps internet, safety 95/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $1,054/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 28/167

# Is 🇵🇱 Poland (Warsaw) a good place to live?

Quality score **83/100** against essentials of **$1,054/month**. Fast fibre and safe cities; coal-season smog drags air quality down.

## The five metrics

Internet 98 244.2 Mbps median broadband, 88.6% online

Safety 95 0.8 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 77 PM2.5 15.4 µg/m³ (2023)

English 62 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.58 · corruption control 0.79 · stability 0.5 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $16.26 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.5/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,054) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.8× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 4.7× | 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 **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/poland/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇦🇷 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
- [🇴🇲 Oman](https://geo-parity.com/livability/oman/) — quality 70.9, essentials $908/mo
- [🇬🇾 Guyana](https://geo-parity.com/livability/guyana/) — quality 58.3, essentials $738/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Poland a good place to live for remote workers?**: Poland scores 83/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 244.2 Mbps, safety 95, healthcare 82, air quality 77, english 62) — rank 28 of 167. Fast fibre and safe cities; coal-season smog drags air quality down.
- **How fast is the internet in Poland?**: Median fixed broadband is around 244.2 Mbps. Fast fibre and safe cities; coal-season smog drags air quality down.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Poland?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,054/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (2.8× 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/poland/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json