About SettleMetric

SettleMetric compares countries and cities for people who work remotely: taxes and special tax regimes, legalization paths, cost of living, housing, safety, climate, healthcare, internet and more. The goal is simple — give the fullest, most honest picture of a place so a relocation decision rests on facts, not marketing.

Our principles

• Every fact carries a source and a verification date. There is an official source or open dataset behind each number, so you can check it yourself.
• Taxes and laws come only from official government sources — tax authorities, immigration services, official gazettes. News and blogs may point us to a source, but never replace it.
• Honest gaps beat guesses. When we can't verify something, we mark it as missing and explain why, instead of inventing a number.
• The score is transparent and secondary. The full methodology is public, and the underlying facts always matter more than any single number.
• No paywall on the data.

Open by default

The dataset is published under a CC BY 4.0 licence, and the site code is open under the MIT licence. Found a mistake or a better official source? Corrections are welcome.

How we score — the methodology

Questions or corrections: [email protected]