Where’s the best place to live in the UK if you want to be well? (Hint: it has green hills, decent house prices and lots of sheep) I’d like to be well, wouldn’t you? Well, well-er. I’m OK. Midlife dampens expectations, and I’m easy to please. But where could I be well-er?Quality of life indices boomed in late-70s America, as a way of charting – and promoting – places after the urban crisis when New York nearly went bust. They arrived in the UK during David Cameron’s drive for More National Happiness, when everyone became briefly obsessed with Scandi noir and why the Danes are so bloody cheery when it never stops raining. Each year the Office for National Statistics asks questions such as, “Overall, how satisfied are you with your life?” Now every district’s mood is mapped, we know precisely where to move to feel more Danish (or Norwegian, as last year Norway snatched Denmark’s happiest nation crown). Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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