Which is cheaper, Angers or Saint-Étienne?

Angers and Saint-Étienne cost about the same: roughly $2,450 per month for one person.

Is Angers or Saint-Étienne safer?

Angers and Saint-Étienne score the same on safety (68), based on national homicide rates and World Bank political-stability scores.

Where is the internet faster, Angers or Saint-Étienne?

Angers: a measured median of 66.4 Mbps versus 61 Mbps (M-Lab, 2024).

Angers vs Saint-Étienne

for digital nomads

Under balanced weights Angers edges it, 65 to 64, winning 3 of the 9 factors. Neither leads on any factor by 10 points or more. Change the weights in the ranker to see which one wins for you.

Angers

out of 100

Green Loire city that tops France's liveability rankings

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Saint-Étienne

out of 100

Former coal and design city under an hour from Lyon, with low rents

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Where they differ

Where they are close. Within five points on getting there & around, internet, air quality, cost of living, safety, healthcare, visa ease, climate, quality of life.

Pick Angers if you want

no clear edge over Saint-Étienne in the data

Pick Saint-Étienne if you want

no clear edge over Angers in the data

Factor scores (0–100, balanced weights)

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Cost of living	31	31
Safety	68	68
Healthcare	87	87
Internet	83 ✓	81
Visa ease	61	61
Getting there & around	44 ✓	40
Climate	33	33
Air quality	95 ✓	93
Quality of life	81	81

Cost

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Monthly cost, one personcountry-level estimate for at least one city	$2,450	$2,450
Central one-bedroom rent	no data	no data

Safety and health (country-level)

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Homicides per 100k	1.33	1.33
Political stability (0–100)	64	64
UHC service coverage (0–100)	82	82
Life expectancy	82.5 yrs	82.5 yrs

Internet (M-Lab measured medians)

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Download	66.4 Mbps ✓	61 Mbps
Upload	58.5 Mbps ✓	42.8 Mbps

Visa

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Nomad visa	none listed	none listed
Minimum income for the visa	no data	no data
Entry, US passport	90 days	90 days
Entry, EU passport	unlimited	unlimited
Entry, UK passport	90 days	90 days

Getting there and around

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Non-stop airport destinations	97	142 ✓
Walkability (1–5, editorial)	4 ✓	3
Transit (1–5, editorial)	4 ✓	3

Climate and air

Metric	Angers	Saint-Étienne
Comfortable months per year	4	4
Annual mean PM2.5	7.4 µg/m³ ✓	8.1 µg/m³

✓ marks the better value in each row; ties and missing data are left unmarked.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Angers or Saint-Étienne?: Angers and Saint-Étienne cost about the same: roughly $2,450 per month for one person.
Is Angers or Saint-Étienne safer?: Angers and Saint-Étienne score the same on safety (68), based on national homicide rates and World Bank political-stability scores.
Where is the internet faster, Angers or Saint-Étienne?: Angers: a measured median of 66.4 Mbps versus 61 Mbps (M-Lab, 2024).

More comparisons

Sources: Cost of Living Global 2026 (city rows); 2026 Cost of Living Index (country level); Digital Nomad Visas 2026; Worldwide Governance Indicators — Political Stability and Absence of Violence (score 0–100); Victims of intentional homicide per 100,000 population (national data, latest year); UHC service coverage index; Life expectancy at birth (years), both sexes; M-Lab NDT statistics (city aggregates, 2024); Airport destinations (Wikipedia airline and destination tables); NASA POWER climatology (2001–2020 monthly means); WHO Ambient Air Quality Database, June 2026 update (V8); Human Development Index (HDR 2025, HDI 2023); EF English Proficiency Index 2024 (band); Walkability and transit ratings (editorial); Passport Index dataset (visa requirements, 199 passports × 199 destinations); OpenStreetMap restaurants (Overpass API); Starlink availability map. Dataset 2026.11.2. See each city page for per-metric footnotes and the methodology.