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Permanent moves within Europe

Choose a city you can live with.

Compare the things that shape the next twenty years, not the next long weekend. Every published figure keeps its source, date, geographic scope and confidence.

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Cities
36
Countries
22
Cross-border moves
1,224

Scope: EU member states, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The UK is excluded until eligibility can be modelled honestly. No city pays to appear here or to rank.

The city set

Every city, not a shortlist.

Each city page carries the same measures, the same units and the same gaps. Being listed is not a recommendation, and it is not a claim of complete data.

Alpine & German-speaking

7 cities

Central, eastern & Baltic

8 cities

Nordic

5 cities

Western

8 cities

Southern, Adriatic & Atlantic

8 cities

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Directional comparison

A move has a starting point.

Wrocław to Prague is not the same decision as Prague to Wrocław. Every change is calculated against the city you are leaving, and two figures that cannot be compared honestly say so instead of being subtracted anyway.

There is no overall score and no winner. You get the arithmetic, the geographic level each number was measured at, and the evidence behind it.

Start with two places

Choose a cross-border move. Either city can be the starting point.

Relocation pages cover moves between countries. Domestic cities remain available in the city finder.

The product contract

Useful because it shows the downside.

A relocation decision needs more than a score. These two commitments shape every city page and every comparison.

01

The anti-recommendation is part of the answer.

Every city must explain what a household could be giving up. Trade-offs stay visible and never become paid placement.

02

Every published number can be checked.

Figures show their source, period, real geographic scope and confidence beside the value, with a citation to the exact evidence.

Grade A harmonised sourceGrade B coarser or laggedGrade E reviewed manually

Elsewhere on the site

Where the numbers come from.

City finder

Search all 36 cities and set your own limits. Cities that cannot be evaluated are named rather than dropped.

Open the finder

Method

How geography, dates, units and confidence survive from the source dataset to the figure on the page.

Read the method

Sources

The publisher, dataset edition, licence and collection method behind each measure. Entries open as their figures publish.

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Current publication status

Missing data stays missing.

The city evidence is still being assembled.

The site covers 36 cities today, but inclusion is not a claim of complete data. Working pages remain out of search results while their coverage, limitations and reviewed trade-offs are still being assembled.