The same life, priced by country.
One of the oldest freedom hacks: earn or save in one place, live in a cheaper one. The same year of life can cost half as much — or nearly double — across a border. Pick where you’d base yourself and see how far your money moves.
The Geoarbitrage Map
€30,000 a year in Spain buys the same life for about €10k in India — and as much as €57k in Iceland.
India
Vietnam
Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
Georgia
North Macedonia
Colombia
Morocco
South Africa
Ecuador
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Türkiye
Brazil
Bulgaria
Romania
Montenegro
Panama
Serbia
Peru
Albania
Poland
Hungary
Croatia
Mexico
Lithuania
Latvia
Costa Rica
Slovakia
Portugal
Greece
Cyprus
Slovenia
Czechia
Spainhome
Malta
Japan
Uruguay
Italy
Estonia
Germany
France
Austria
Netherlands
Belgium
Canada
Finland
Sweden
United Kingdom
Australia
Norway
Luxembourg
United States
Ireland
Denmark
Switzerland
Iceland
Relative price levels (whole-economy, base EU-27 = 100) from Eurostat and the World Bank, 2025, reused under CC BY 4.0. It’s a rough shape, not a budget — country averages hide big regional and rent differences, and they move with exchange rates. Not advice, and definitely not tax or residency advice; see Where You Live for the tax half.
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Every European country here has a full page in the atlas — the rules, the housing, the way in. The Europe atlas
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