Middlesbrough 5th Happiest Town/City To Live and Work

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And the 9th best for work/life balance according to Shawbrook Bank. What most of us who live here knew anyway but good to see it confirmed.
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Boro just ahead of York. Was the survey carried out whilst a Teesside boozing invasion of York was in progress?
 
It's one of the most underprivilaged towns in the country. High unemployment, child poverty, drugs etc. There'll be plenty of unhappiness around. It's a ludicrous thing to try and quantify given that individual circumstances are key to someone's happiness.
 
Can't take a survey seriously that has us down as the third happiest "city", and top in England, then you look at the list and we're 5th and Sunderland are 3rd.

How is there 0.48 hours more daylight in Boro compared to York?
 
Perhaps Shawbrook Bank, who commissioned the survey, ought to consider actually opening up an office in the North East?
 
SmogOnTheTees said:
Can't take a survey seriously that has us down as the third happiest "city", and top in England, then you look at the list and we're 5th and Sunderland are 3rd.

How is there 0.48 hours more daylight in Boro compared to York?
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Could it not be people prefer to live in centres that are small enough to walk around and yet have a thriving community with venues, shops, pubs, football, restaurants, cafes and amazing music and art festivals and promoters. Where we have a newspaper, local radio station etc. Where loads of us know each other and can interact face to face (behind a mask) and don't have to face the time and expense of commuter crawls by train, bus and underground.
 
SmogOnTheTees said:
Can't take a survey seriously that has us down as the third happiest "city", and top in England, then you look at the list and we're 5th and Sunderland are 3rd.

How is there 0.48 hours more daylight in Boro compared to York?
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Neither can I especially as a rival survey https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/smarthr/employee-engagement/uks-happiest-workforces
puts us down in 28th. But any positive publicity is very very welcome. I’ll embrace Shawbrook’s survey.
 
Its certainly cheap and convenient if you have a car. I went to the football writers do a few weeks back and drove straight down Marton Road, then Fry Street then parked in Exchange Place outside Base Camp. No traffic hardly and free to park on the road after 6pm. Most large towns and cities the journey would have taken at least twice as along and it would cost money to park in the evening and you would likely have had to park further away from the venue.

Although I agree with what Wilkos Perm that its one of the most underprivilaged towns in the UK. Even in better days like the 1970s it had significant problems with too much drink, poverty, prostitution, occasional street violence. Today there seems a serious drugs issue. Many other places have gentrified, but the Boro has not really.

I think if you live well out of the Town in somewhere like Nunthorpe its different. You can have a pleasant lifestyle if you have a professional job and not have the deal with hordes of other professionals trying to do the same thing, so say property is affordable, and always a table at the local restaurant, always a place to park the car etc.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Could it not be people prefer to live in centres that are small enough to walk around and yet have a thriving community with venues, shops, pubs, football, restaurants, cafes and amazing music and art festivals and promoters. Where we have a newspaper, local radio station etc. Where loads of us know each other and can interact face to face (behind a mask) and don't have to face the time and expense of commuter crawls by train, bus and underground.
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Ive got to say Rob, I'd have you in the trench's any day. You do paint thing's well.
 
Osboro said:
Ive got to say Rob, I'd have you in the trench's any day. You do paint thing's well.
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It obviously depends on who you are and what your circumstances are because there is no getting around the levels of poverty. But in terms of community, things to do and convenience it is hard to beat. Which was so important during lockdown year.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Could it not be people prefer to live in centres that are small enough to walk around and yet have a thriving community with venues, shops, pubs, football, restaurants, cafes and amazing music and art festivals and promoters. Where we have a newspaper, local radio station etc. Where loads of us know each other and can interact face to face (behind a mask) and don't have to face the time and expense of commuter crawls by train, bus and underground.
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Sounds like Shrewsbury. Top town
 
fmttmadmin said:
Could it not be people prefer to live in centres that are small enough to walk around and yet have a thriving community with venues, shops, pubs, football, restaurants, cafes and amazing music and art festivals and promoters. Where we have a newspaper, local radio station etc. Where loads of us know each other and can interact face to face (behind a mask) and don't have to face the time and expense of commuter crawls by train, bus and underground.
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Not having a go at the town, just having a go at an inconsistent survey that is clearly an attempt at skewing data to fit some sort of narrative. Like the time, 2 decades ago, surveyors said that geordie accents were the most trust worthy accents in Britain, right before they moved loads of call centres there. Wonder what they are aiming to do.
 
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