Colchester, Redditch and Tunbridge Wells are UK's 'unhappiest' areas, according to survey
Torridge, in north Devon, Pendle in Lancashire and Lichfield in Staffordshire were among the towns ranked highest when a survey by the Office for National Statistics asked people how 'happy' they felt, while Redditch in Worcestershire and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were among the lowest.
The figures are from the ONS's most recent annual well-being survey, in which people were asked to rank "how happy did you feel yesterday" from 0 to 10.
A sensible person, perfectly happy with where they live, will surely respond with a score of 0 to keep house prices down and discourage hordes of visitors.
It's a reminder of how the climate narrative works. People are effectively asked to rank "how happy did you feel yesterday about the world coming to an end because of climate change" from 0 to 10. A sensible person would respond with a score of 10 to that one.
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T. Wells used to be a lot happier when the place had a decent town-centre cinema and some great independent shops in a pedestrianised area, but all that's gone now, and the cinema site has been an empty rotting tooth slap bang in the middle for many years, because the BC just couldn't make up their minds!
We never go there nowadays, it's far too depressing, so I agree with the survey!
Scrobs - I don't know why councils are so slow at sorting problems like a derelict cinema site. We have one which has been derelict for years and it's such a depressing sight.
Think it’s a political agenda to kill off town centres. Ours has boarded up shops, sky high rentals so they can go off on their jollies, seems no other way now.
James - yet they don't want us driving to out of town shopping centres either. Feels like incompetence to me.
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