Where to live in Georgia
We track 3 cities in Georgia: Batumi, Kutaisi and Tbilisi. Average temperatures run from 14°C to 15°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,006 to €2,150 a month to live centrally. Georgia sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Georgian
- Some English
- Safety
- 78/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 56/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~30 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 3 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
Georgia sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate 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
Comparatively open. Long-term residency is realistically reached through property ownership or a larger investment, an employment or own-business work permit, or family ties, with a path to permanent residency and citizenship.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Georgia:
- Investment: about $150k (Georgia short-term residence permit via real-estate ownership, market value USD 150,000 (payable in GEL equivalent); raised from USD 100,000 effective 1 March 2026; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 100 of 198 passports can enter visa-free, 96 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival and 2 need a visa in advance.
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).