{"id":4244,"date":"2011-09-29T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-has-worst-quality-of-life-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:51:06","slug":"uk-has-worst-quality-of-life-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-has-worst-quality-of-life-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK has &#039;worst quality of life in Europe&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSurvey of 10 developed European countries puts UK at bottom of the pile due to high costs of living, while France takes top spotThe UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, behind countries with damaged economies such as Ireland and Italy, according to the latest uSwitch quality of life index.The UK emerged as having the second lowest hours of sunshine a year, the fourth highest retirement age, and the third lowest spend on health as a percentage of GDP. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2011\/sep\/29\/uk-worst-quality-of-life-europe\" target=\"_blank\">UK has &#8216;worst quality of life in Europe&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Survey of 10 developed European countries puts UK at bottom of the pile due to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-16s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23343,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-be-happy-dont-live-in-the-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":4244,"position":0},"title":"Want to be happy? 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