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Crunching costs, sorting signals, rendering insights.
Crunching costs, sorting signals, rendering insights.
An interactive intelligence layer for salaries, taxes, rent, and city economics — designed to help you feel the difference between places, not just read it.
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Type a country, state, region, or city name to jump directly into the right page across 17 countries.
Pick a country above and the comparison updates instantly. Here's United States right now.
Living in Austin costs 31% less than New York City
Four core tools — each one designed to answer a real question people have before making a move.
Straight answers for relocation and affordability planning, with direct paths to the tools and pages you need next.
Use Livably Compare to evaluate cost index, median rent, household income, taxes, and affordability side by side.
Start with two candidate cities, then scan the category-level differences to see where your monthly budget changes the most before you relocate.
Use the salary and tax tools to model take-home pay, rent-to-income ratio, and local tax drag in your target city.
A practical benchmark is to keep housing near or below 30% of take-home pay, then stress-test essentials like transport, groceries, and utilities.
City-level rent, income, and tax indicators are refreshed on a recurring cadence using public and partner datasets.
Major movement is monitored monthly, and methodology notes are updated as source coverage expands across countries and regions.
An index of 120 means a city is roughly 20% more expensive than a baseline index of 100.
Use index values with rent and income together: a high index can still be manageable if local wages are proportionally stronger.
Livably currently covers 786 cities across 17 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Sweden, India, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland.
Coverage grows over time, and every country view includes local city pages, regional rollups, and cross-country comparison tools.
Run salary scenarios, compare city economics, and discover where your money actually stretches.