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title: "Is Singapore a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Singapore (Singapore): 198.4 Mbps internet, safety 100/100, healthcare 88/100 — essentials ≈ $1,298/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 13/167

# Is 🇸🇬 Singapore (Singapore) a good place to live?

Quality score **89/100** against essentials of **$1,298/month**. The efficiency benchmark: fastest broadband on earth, near-zero crime, English-official — at Swiss-level costs.

## The five metrics

Internet 79 198.4 Mbps median broadband, 94.4% online

Safety 100 0.1 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 88 UHC service coverage 88/100 (2023)

Air quality 85 PM2.5 11.8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 95 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**: very strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 1.43 · corruption control 1.97 · stability 1.23 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $58.58 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $11.12/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,298) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.5× | very comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.3× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.9× | 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/singapore/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇸🇿 Eswatini](https://geo-parity.com/livability/eswatini/) — quality 46.7, essentials $676/mo
- [🇧🇯 Benin](https://geo-parity.com/livability/benin/) — quality 47, essentials $676/mo
- [🇱🇸 Lesotho](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lesotho/) — quality 46.9, essentials $676/mo
- [🇱🇹 Lithuania](https://geo-parity.com/livability/lithuania/) — quality 83, essentials $1,217/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Singapore a good place to live for remote workers?**: Singapore scores 89/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 198.4 Mbps, safety 100, healthcare 88, air quality 85, english 95) — rank 13 of 167. The efficiency benchmark: fastest broadband on earth, near-zero crime, English-official — at Swiss-level costs.
- **How fast is the internet in Singapore?**: Median fixed broadband is around 198.4 Mbps. The efficiency benchmark: fastest broadband on earth, near-zero crime, English-official — at Swiss-level costs.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Singapore?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,298/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.3× 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/singapore/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json