Medellín Is Dirt Cheap — But Should You Actually Move There?

Thirty years ago Medellín was the most dangerous city on earth. Today it's one of the most talked-about destinations for expats and digital nomads worldwide. But the safety index scores just 46 point 10. Violent crime rates High. Corruption sits at High. So which version of Medellín is real? In this episode of CityScore we run the full data breakdown on Medellín, cost of living, safety, healthcare, pollution, purchasing power, and deliver an honest verdict on whether this city lives up to its reinvention story. The answer is more complicated than the Instagram posts suggest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER: 00:00 — The safety numbers that change everything 00:32 — Medellín city snapshot: culture, climate, vibe 01:32 — Full data breakdown: cost of living, safety, healthcare, pollution, purchasing power 04:32 — The verdict: who Medellín works for in 2025 04:59 — CityScore final rating: 6.6/10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CITYSCORE RATINGS SO FAR: 🇵🇹 Lisbon — 7.4/10 🇬🇪 Tbilisi — 7.1/10 🇹🇭 Bangkok — 6.8/10 🇨🇴 Medellín — 6.6/10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DATA SOURCE: Numbeo Cost of Living & Quality of Life Index All figures in USD. Data pulled: March 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUBSCRIBE for city breakdowns — every episode scores a new city using real data so you can make smarter decisions about where you live, move, or travel. #Medellin #Colombia #CostOfLiving #CityScore #DigitalNomad #MovingAbroad #ExpatsAbroad #MedellinColombia #SouthAmerica #ExpatLife