What do you get for the money?

All 107 provinces, housing cost on one axis and measured quality of life on the other. The top-right corner is cheaper and higher-scoring on the domains you weight — but that corner moves when you change the weights, because “quality of life” means different things to a retiree, a family with school-age children, and a remote worker.

Method, in one sentence: cost is the population-weighted average of OMI transaction prices across every comune in a province (not the capoluogo alone, which would overstate cost for most provinces), and quality of life is the weighted average of the curated BES indicators’ percentile ranks, weighted equally across domains by default and adjustable below. Quadrant lines sit at the median of each axis among the provinces currently shown, not at a fixed value.

What this chart can’t tell you: it compares measured cost against measured well-being indicators. It knows nothing about your visa position, tax residency, family, language, or whether you’d actually be happy there. “Poor value” describes the ratio of two measured variables for a place where real people live, not a verdict on it.