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title: "Is Romania a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Romania (Bucharest): 269.3 Mbps internet, safety 93/100, healthcare 77/100 — essentials ≈ $918/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 14/167

# Is 🇷🇴 Romania (Bucharest) a good place to live?

Quality score **89/100** against essentials of **$918/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 100 269.3 Mbps median broadband, 91.3% online

Safety 93 1.1 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 77 UHC service coverage 77/100 (2023)

Air quality 87 PM2.5 11 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 0.37 · corruption control 0.03 · stability 0.16 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $6.34 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $6.26/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($918) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.3× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 5.4× | 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

- [🇲🇩 Moldova](https://geo-parity.com/livability/moldova/) — quality 82.6, essentials $855/mo
- [🇲🇰 North Macedonia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/north-macedonia/) — quality 65.9, essentials $669/mo
- [🇹🇿 Tanzania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/tanzania/) — quality 54.2, essentials $550/mo
- [🇷🇼 Rwanda](https://geo-parity.com/livability/rwanda/) — quality 48.8, essentials $512/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Romania a good place to live for remote workers?**: Romania scores 89/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 269.3 Mbps, safety 93, healthcare 77, air quality 87; English not scored) — rank 14 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Romania?**: Median fixed broadband is around 269.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Romania?**: Single-person essentials run about $918/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/romania/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json