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title: "Is Türkiye a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Türkiye (Istanbul): 123.8 Mbps internet, safety 81/100, healthcare 77/100 — essentials ≈ $741/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/turkiye/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 85/167

# Is 🇹🇷 Türkiye (Istanbul) a good place to live?

Quality score **62/100** against essentials of **$741/month**. Istanbul energy at low cost; broadband and air quality middling.

## The five metrics

Internet 50 123.8 Mbps median broadband, 89.8% online

Safety 81 3.2 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 77 UHC service coverage 77/100 (2023)

Air quality 64 PM2.5 21.1 µg/m³ (2023)

English 40 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**: weak
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.84 · corruption control -0.56 · stability -0.97 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $14.92 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $7.46/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($741) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 2.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 4.1× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 6.8× | 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/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇷🇸 Serbia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/serbia/) — quality 77.1, essentials $925/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/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-turkiye/) · [retiring in Türkiye](https://geo-parity.com/fire/turkiye/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Türkiye a good place to live for remote workers?**: Türkiye scores 62/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 123.8 Mbps, safety 81, healthcare 77, air quality 64, english 40) — rank 85 of 167. Istanbul energy at low cost; broadband and air quality middling.
- **How fast is the internet in Türkiye?**: Median fixed broadband is around 123.8 Mbps. Istanbul energy at low cost; broadband and air quality middling.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Türkiye?**: Single-person essentials run about $741/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (4.1× 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/turkiye/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json