Writing
Short pieces on how to read relocation data without being misled by it — what the free tools each measure, which numbers matter and which are decoration, and where this site's own figures are modelled rather than measured.
Every figure in these pieces is computed from the same engines as the calculators and recomputed on each build, so an article and the tool behind it cannot drift apart.
- Which cost-of-living tool should you trust?
They are not competing answers to one question. They are answers to four different questions, and picking the wrong one is how people end up surprised.
- How many days do you actually overlap with a remote team?
Every timezone overlap tool answers half the question. The other half costs a London–Tokyo team the better part of a month a year.
- Why cost-of-living rankings ignore the weather — and what changes when they don't
Two cities can sit beside each other on a cost table and be nothing alike to live in. The tables have simply left out the variable everyone actually cares about.
- Why megabits tell you almost nothing about working remotely
A fat pipe with a long, unstable round trip is a worse working day than a thin one that is close and steady. Almost nobody measures the thing that breaks.
- How to read a country ranking without being misled by it
Most ranking mistakes are not errors in the numbers. They are errors in what the numbers were asked to mean.
Who writes this
Adam Simmons-Spaans, Founder, Geo-Parity. Adam builds Geo-Parity single-handedly: the engines, the datasets and the fetchers that refresh them. Every figure on the site comes from a published source — World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, WHO, HUD, Cloudflare Radar — and where a number is modelled rather than measured, the page says so. More about the site.