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title: "Is Switzerland a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Switzerland (Zürich): 193.2 Mbps internet, safety 96/100, healthcare 87/100 — essentials ≈ $2,753/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 21/167

# Is 🇨🇭 Switzerland (Zürich) a good place to live?

Quality score **85/100** against essentials of **$2,753/month**. World-class everything at world-record prices; mandatory private health insurance.

## The five metrics

Internet 77 193.2 Mbps median broadband, 97.3% online

Safety 96 0.6 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 87 UHC service coverage 87/100 (2023)

Air quality 93 PM2.5 8.2 µg/m³ (2023)

English 72 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 1.76 · corruption control 2.01 · stability 0.98 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $72.2 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $72.31/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,753) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 0.7× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.1× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 1.8× | very comfortable |

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 **90 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/switzerland/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇮🇱 Israel](https://geo-parity.com/livability/israel/) — quality 82.1, essentials $2,677/mo
- [🇸🇧 Solomon Islands](https://geo-parity.com/livability/solomon-islands/) — quality 55.7, essentials $1,786/mo
- [🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-kitts-and-nevis/) — quality 49.1, essentials $1,628/mo
- [🇨🇫 Central African Republic](https://geo-parity.com/livability/central-african-republic/) — quality 26.1, essentials $809/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Switzerland a good place to live for remote workers?**: Switzerland scores 85/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 193.2 Mbps, safety 96, healthcare 87, air quality 93, english 72) — rank 21 of 167. World-class everything at world-record prices; mandatory private health insurance.
- **How fast is the internet in Switzerland?**: Median fixed broadband is around 193.2 Mbps. World-class everything at world-record prices; mandatory private health insurance.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Switzerland?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,753/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.1× 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/switzerland/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json