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title: "Is Russia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Russia (Moscow): 111.4 Mbps internet, safety 59/100, healthcare 81/100 — essentials ≈ $592/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 66/167

# Is 🇷🇺 Russia (Moscow) a good place to live?

Quality score **70/100** against essentials of **$592/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 45 111.4 Mbps median broadband, 94.4% online

Safety 59 6.8 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 81 UHC service coverage 81/100 (2023)

Air quality 94 PM2.5 7.6 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**: very weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -1.16 · corruption control -0.89 · stability -0.9 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $6.41 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.47/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($592) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.4× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 8.4× | 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

- [🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan](https://geo-parity.com/livability/kyrgyzstan/) — quality 66.4, essentials $570/mo
- [🇧🇳 Brunei](https://geo-parity.com/livability/brunei/) — quality 79.9, essentials $687/mo
- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo
- [🇻🇳 Vietnam](https://geo-parity.com/livability/vietnam/) — quality 64.4, essentials $539/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Russia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Russia scores 70/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 111.4 Mbps, safety 59, healthcare 81, air quality 94; English not scored) — rank 66 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Russia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 111.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Russia?**: Single-person essentials run about $592/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.1× 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/russia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json