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🇨🇴 Colombia
Colombia
The whole move — visa, taxes, insurance, money and cost of living — in one place.
Visa & Residency
V-Nomad
Comfortable solo budget
€1,130/mo
Stay
2 years
Taxes Abroad
Territorial taxation
Living in Colombia
The visa is step one. Here is the rest of what it takes to live here — each researched and sourced.
🛂 Visa & Residency
Digital nomad visa €1,130/mo Colombia → 🧾 Taxes Abroad
Territorial taxation Tax-residency trigger: 183 days Colombia → 🩺 Health Insurance
Required (explicit) Colombia → 💶 Cost of Living
€900–€1,500/mo Medellín Colombia → 🛡️ Health System
No — private insurance needed Emergency: 123 Colombia → 🏡 Housing & Relocation
— Address registration Colombia → Good to know
- No legal cash deposit: Ley 820 bans deposits, and in practice landlords often accept rent paid a few months in advance instead of a frozen sum
- Strong furnished mid-term market in Medellin and Bogota makes a soft landing easy for nomads while they hunt for a long-term lease
- Near-universal insurance coverage (~98% of the population enrolled in the SGSSS as of December 2020)
- Single nationwide emergency line 123 (NUSE), free and available 24/7
Watch out for
- Long-term unfurnished leases usually demand a Colombian fiador/codeudor who owns property; without one, expect to pay several months' rent in advance, post a CDT (often roughly 5-9 months' rent), or buy a poliza de arrendamiento
- Furnished (amoblado) units and expat-targeted listings/Facebook groups generally cost more than comparable local-market unfurnished rentals
- Tourists and short-stay foreigners cannot enroll in the public EPS system; affiliation requires legal status and an accepted ID such as a cedula de extranjeria (foreigner ID)
- Some visa categories (e.g. retirement (M) and business visas) cannot affiliate to the public social-security health system
Cost of living
| Medellín | €900–€1,500/mo |
Qualifying insurance
Nomad Insurance (Essential and Complete plans) €54.36/mo Genki Traveler (successor to Genki Explorer, which was retired) €63.90/mo Cigna Global Health Options – International Health Plans (Silver / Gold / Platinum) —
Qualifying insurance →