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title: "Is Serbia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Serbia (Belgrade): 183.9 Mbps internet, safety 92/100, healthcare 73/100 — essentials ≈ $925/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 42/167

# Is 🇷🇸 Serbia (Belgrade) a good place to live?

Quality score **77/100** against essentials of **$925/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 74 183.9 Mbps median broadband, 87.7% online

Safety 92 1.3 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 73 UHC service coverage 73/100 (2023)

Air quality 70 PM2.5 18.3 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 -0.2 · corruption control -0.56 · stability -0.17 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $21.53 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.03/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($925) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 3.2× | 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

- [🇹🇷 Türkiye](https://geo-parity.com/livability/turkiye/) — quality 62.3, essentials $741/mo
- [🇲🇦 Morocco](https://geo-parity.com/livability/morocco/) — quality 66.8, essentials $788/mo
- [🇦🇱 Albania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/albania/) — quality 75.3, essentials $883/mo
- [🇳🇮 Nicaragua](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nicaragua/) — quality 54.8, essentials $628/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Serbia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Serbia scores 77/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 183.9 Mbps, safety 92, healthcare 73, air quality 70; English not scored) — rank 42 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Serbia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 183.9 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Serbia?**: Single-person essentials run about $925/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (3.2× 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/serbia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json