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title: "Is Uruguay a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Uruguay (Montevideo): 221.4 Mbps internet, safety 33/100, healthcare 85/100 — essentials ≈ $1,592/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 53/167

# Is 🇺🇾 Uruguay (Montevideo) a good place to live?

Quality score **73/100** against essentials of **$1,592/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 89 221.4 Mbps median broadband, 92% online

Safety 33 11.2 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 85 UHC service coverage 85/100 (2023)

Air quality 85 PM2.5 11.6 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**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.95 · corruption control 1.53 · stability 1.28 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $36.7 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $14.03/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,592) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.3× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.1× | 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

- [🇳🇴 Norway](https://geo-parity.com/livability/norway/) — quality 94.1, essentials $2,051/mo
- [🇱🇷 Liberia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/liberia/) — quality 46.8, essentials $1,019/mo
- [🇸🇨 Seychelles](https://geo-parity.com/livability/seychelles/) — quality 60.7, essentials $1,316/mo
- [🇳🇿 New Zealand](https://geo-parity.com/livability/new-zealand/) — quality 93.4, essentials $2,008/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Uruguay a good place to live for remote workers?**: Uruguay scores 73/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 221.4 Mbps, safety 33, healthcare 85, air quality 85; English not scored) — rank 53 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Uruguay?**: Median fixed broadband is around 221.4 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Uruguay?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,592/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (1.9× 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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