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title: "Is Portugal a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Portugal (Lisbon): 257.5 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 83/100 — essentials ≈ $1,345/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/portugal/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 17/167

# Is 🇵🇹 Portugal (Lisbon) a good place to live?

Quality score **89/100** against essentials of **$1,345/month**. Very safe, good fibre, strong English in Lisbon/Porto — the nomad default for a reason.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 257.5 Mbps median broadband, 88.5% online

Safety 96 0.7 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 83 UHC service coverage 83/100 (2023)

Air quality 97 PM2.5 6.5 µg/m³ (2023)

English 68 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 1.07 · corruption control 0.82 · stability 0.54 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $15.78 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $8.42/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,345) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.5× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.7× | 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/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇱🇾 Libya](https://geo-parity.com/livability/libya/) — quality 47.1, essentials $713/mo
- [🇱🇻 Latvia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/latvia/) — quality 81.9, essentials $1,245/mo
- [🇸🇳 Senegal](https://geo-parity.com/livability/senegal/) — quality 46, essentials $699/mo
- [🇸🇮 Slovenia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/slovenia/) — quality 91, essentials $1,385/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Portugal a good place to live for remote workers?**: Portugal scores 89/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 257.5 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 83, air quality 97, english 68) — rank 17 of 167. Very safe, good fibre, strong English in Lisbon/Porto — the nomad default for a reason.
- **How fast is the internet in Portugal?**: Median fixed broadband is around 257.5 Mbps. Very safe, good fibre, strong English in Lisbon/Porto — the nomad default for a reason.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Portugal?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,345/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.2× 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/portugal/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json