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title: "Is United Kingdom a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "United Kingdom (London): 194.5 Mbps internet, safety 93/100, healthcare 88/100 — essentials ≈ $2,060/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-kingdom/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 10/167

# Is 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (London) a good place to live?

Quality score **90/100** against essentials of **$2,060/month**. NHS free at point of use; broadband decent but slower than EU fibre leaders.

## The five metrics

Internet 78 194.5 Mbps median broadband, 95.5% online

Safety 93 1.1 homicides/100k (2021)

Healthcare 88 UHC service coverage 88/100 (2023)

Air quality 93 PM2.5 8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 100 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 1.27 · corruption control 1.51 · stability 0.26 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $42.8 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $18.89/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,060) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.0× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.5× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 2.4× | 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 **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/united-kingdom/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇩🇰 Denmark](https://geo-parity.com/livability/denmark/) — quality 93.2, essentials $2,158/mo
- [🇩🇪 Germany](https://geo-parity.com/livability/germany/) — quality 81.8, essentials $1,834/mo
- [🇨🇲 Cameroon](https://geo-parity.com/livability/cameroon/) — quality 28.1, essentials $630/mo
- [🇦🇹 Austria](https://geo-parity.com/livability/austria/) — quality 82.5, essentials $1,840/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is United Kingdom a good place to live for remote workers?**: United Kingdom scores 90/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 194.5 Mbps, safety 93, healthcare 88, air quality 93, english 100) — rank 10 of 167. NHS free at point of use; broadband decent but slower than EU fibre leaders.
- **How fast is the internet in United Kingdom?**: Median fixed broadband is around 194.5 Mbps. NHS free at point of use; broadband decent but slower than EU fibre leaders.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in United Kingdom?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,060/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.5× 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/united-kingdom/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json