Where to live in the Bahamas
We track 2 cities in the Bahamas: Freeport and Nassau. Average temperatures run from 25°C to 26°C. We estimate a couple needs €3,527 to €3,713 a month to live centrally. The Bahamas sits in our zero or very low tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Zero or very low
- Little to no personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- English everywhere
- Safety
- 55/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 68/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~90 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 2 cities we track
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
The Bahamas sits in our zero or very low tax tier: little to no personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Realistic routes are an annually renewable residence permit for the financially self-sufficient (retirees or remote workers with offshore income) and an economic permanent residence certificate earned through property or government-bond investment.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for the Bahamas:
- Investment: about $1M (Bahamas Economic Certificate of Permanent Residence, BSD 1,000,000 (pegged 1:1 to USD) in real estate or Central Bank zero-coupon bonds, held 10 years, effective 2025-01-01; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 122 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 76 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).