A calmer way to decide together.

Most relocation tools are built for one person with a spreadsheet. Real decisions are rarely that tidy. They happen between two people who care about different things, weigh them differently, and often skip the hardest conversations until a deposit is already paid.

What we believe

A good shared decision starts with two honest, private answers. When neither of you sees the other's preferences first, the merged result reflects what you both actually want, not who spoke loudest. We turn public data on cost, taxes, climate, safety, healthcare, and infrastructure into one honest factor per city, then weight it by what each of you said matters. Residency counts too: from each partner's passport and where you live, plus the household budget you give us, we estimate how realistic long-term residency is in each country. Where it looks hard, a city's match drops, by up to half, and a city below our bar moves to a separate not-realistic list that says why. Short-stay visa rules are shown per city and do not change the ranking. Since the quiz asks where to move, cities in the country you live in now are left out of your results, with one tap to include them.

Where the figures come from

Climate is measured per city (temperature from the Open-Meteo archive, 2019 to 2023 averages; rainfall from TerraClimate, 1991 to 2020 normals), as are city size (GeoNames), distance to the coast (Natural Earth) and terrain relief. Distance to the coast scores “By the sea”. Terrain relief, the gap between the lowest and highest ground sampled within 30 km of the city, scores “Mountains & nature”, with full marks from 1,000 m, and counts for less in the driest places (under about 250 mm of rain a year), down to half where it never rains. It comes from NASA SRTM elevation data, or NASA and METI's ASTER GDEM north of 60°N, via OpenTopoData. Cost is a country-level index scaled for city size. Safety, healthcare, political climate, English, social openness and internet speed are country-level figures, so every city in a country shares them. Most of the cities we track sit in countries covered by our own country tables. In those tables, political climate follows the EIU Democracy Index, English the EF English Proficiency Index, and internet speed the Ookla Speedtest Global Index (median fixed broadband download). Tax tiers are assigned by hand: we put each country in one of three bands, judging its top marginal personal income tax rate and its overall tax reputation and, where a non-dom or territorial regime exists, the regime a newcomer would use. No fixed rate cut-offs separate the bands, and countries outside our tables sit in the middle band.

Safety, healthcare and the cost index in our tables are our own estimates, set by hand: safety and healthcare on a 0 to 100 scale, cost on a scale where New York is 100. They are approximate country-level figures. We checked them against the World Bank estimates described below, which come from the homicide rate and political stability (safety), life expectancy and health spending per person (healthcare), and the price level of GDP (cost). Across the 92 to 96 countries in our tables with those indicators, the two correlate at r = 0.85 for safety, 0.89 for healthcare and 0.93 for cost, and differ by 4 to 6 points on average. Seven later additions to the tables, among them Bulgaria and Uruguay, use the World Bank estimates instead.

For the countries outside those tables, we estimate cost, safety, healthcare and political climate from World Bank indicators, taking the most recent year each country reports. Each estimate is fitted against the countries in our tables so both sit on the same scale. Safety there comes from country-level figures: the homicide rate where one was reported since 2018, a political stability estimate, and life expectancy where no recent homicide rate exists. It says nothing about a particular city or neighborhood. The indicators, with the range of years we read:

• country-level homicide rate per 100,000 people (VC.IHR.PSRC.P5, 2018 to 2023)
• Worldwide Governance Indicators Political Stability and Absence of Violence estimate (GOV_WGI_PV.EST, 2025)
• life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024)
• current health spending per person in US dollars (SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD, 2020 to 2024)
• price level of GDP relative to the United States, from GDP per person in US dollars and at purchasing power parity (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, 2022 to 2025)
• Worldwide Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability estimate (GOV_WGI_VA.EST, 2025)

Where a country has no figure for a factor, the quiz scores that factor conservatively and the city carries a “Limited data” note. World Bank data: The World Bank, World Development Indicators and Worldwide Governance Indicators, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (license, data.worldbank.org).

How we make money

The quiz is free, and so is your #1 city. The Couple Pass, a single payment of 12 euros or dollars per project, unlocks the rest of your results, every city and every place you diverged, for both of you. We never sell your answers, and we never will.