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title: "Is Syria a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Syria (Damascus): 7.8 Mbps internet, healthcare 70/100, air quality 48/100 — essentials ≈ $258/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/syria/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 152/167

# Is 🇸🇾 Syria (Damascus) a good place to live?

Quality score **40/100** against essentials of **$258/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 3 7.8 Mbps median broadband, 33.8% online

Healthcare 70 UHC service coverage 70/100 (2023)

Air quality 48 PM2.5 28.2 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 -1.81 · corruption control -1.7 · stability -2.37 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $0.76 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $4.99/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($258) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 7.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 11.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 19.4× | 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

- [🇺🇦 Ukraine](https://geo-parity.com/livability/ukraine/) — quality 78.4, essentials $523/mo
- [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belarus/) — quality 74.1, essentials $499/mo
- [🇳🇬 Nigeria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/nigeria/) — quality 29.8, essentials $205/mo
- [🇪🇬 Egypt](https://geo-parity.com/livability/egypt/) — quality 43.8, essentials $254/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Syria a good place to live for remote workers?**: Syria scores 40/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 7.8 Mbps, healthcare 70, air quality 48; English not scored) — rank 152 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Syria?**: Median fixed broadband is around 7.8 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Syria?**: Single-person essentials run about $258/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (11.6× 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/syria/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json