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title: "Is Vietnam a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Vietnam (Da Nang): 189.8 Mbps internet, safety 70/100, healthcare 71/100 — essentials ≈ $539/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 78/167

# Is 🇻🇳 Vietnam (Da Nang) a good place to live?

Quality score **64/100** against essentials of **$539/month**. Ultra-low costs and real energy; Hanoi air and hospital quality lag HCMC private options.

## The five metrics

Internet 76 189.8 Mbps median broadband, 84.2% online

Safety 70 personal security

Healthcare 71 UHC service coverage 71/100 (2023)

Air quality 60 PM2.5 22.9 µg/m³ (2023)

English 45 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 -0.31 · corruption control -0.25 · stability 0.01 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $6.72 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $2.85/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($539) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.7× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.6× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.3× | 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/).

🪤 Tax residency triggers at **183 days**. [Tax residency details →](https://geo-parity.com/tax-residency/vietnam/)

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo
- [🇸🇷 Suriname](https://geo-parity.com/livability/suriname/) — quality 72.7, essentials $605/mo
- [🇮🇩 Indonesia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/indonesia/) — quality 64, essentials $528/mo
- [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/russia/) — quality 69.6, essentials $592/mo

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

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Vietnam a good place to live for remote workers?**: Vietnam scores 64/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 189.8 Mbps, safety 70, healthcare 71, air quality 60, english 45) — rank 78 of 167. Ultra-low costs and real energy; Hanoi air and hospital quality lag HCMC private options.
- **How fast is the internet in Vietnam?**: Median fixed broadband is around 189.8 Mbps. Ultra-low costs and real energy; Hanoi air and hospital quality lag HCMC private options.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Vietnam?**: Single-person essentials run about $539/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.6× 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/vietnam/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json