M.O.A.B wrote:
Best Cities Guide wrote:This year, Edinburgh and Glasgow attracted the best scores for range of accommodation (84.75; 82.14), putting Scotland firmly in the lead for its choice of places to stay. You think York is the most beautiful city in the UK (95.29 for aesthetics/architecture, followed closely by Oxford with 95.22). The friendliest people are in Newcastle (96.67), which is also the most user-friendly city (83.33); and Leeds is best for nightlife/entertainment (97.50) and food/restaurants (93.75). Liverpool offers the best value for money (82.86), and London the worst (60.04), even if it is the UK's top city for culture (92.17).
1 Edinburgh 87.36%
2 Leeds 87.31%
3 Newcastle 87.20%
4 Bath 87.07%
5 Manchester 86.87%
6 York 86.07%
7 Cambridge 85.81%
8 Glasgow 85.40%
9 Oxford 85.32%
10 London 85.07%
11 Cardiff 84.65%
12 Bristol 84.57%
13 Chester 84.50%
14 Liverpool 84.42%
15 Brighton 84.40%
My my, look where the top half are located.
Hmmm, I couldnt find those stats on the net, and it differs from the C4 one. Convenient that you left out the worst places to live:
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/best-and-worst/
Middlesbrough: Worst Place To Live
Kingston upon Hull: 2nd Worst
Newham: 3rd Worst
Nottingham: 4th Worst
Merthyr Tydfil: 5th Worst
North East Lincolnshire: 6th Worst
Islington: 7th Worst
Blaenau Gwent: 8th Worst
Mansfield: 9th Worst
Knowsley: 10th Worst
Blackpool: 11th Worst
Hackney: 12th Worst
Stoke-on-Trent: 13th Worst
Barking & Dagenham: 14th Worst
Doncaster: 15th Worst
Cannock Chase: 16th Worst
Manchester: 17th Worst
Haringey: 18th Worst
Burnley: 19th Worst
Hartlepool: 20th Worst
In fact,
Cheltenham won it a few years ago, and I thought it did last year too, with Tetbury (where I work) coming in to the top10, and that is a small town at best.
Oh, and not to mention
the best pub in Britain, right here in my own town
:AWSM:
My oh my.
Gloucestershire > your post.
Mint Sauce wrote:
We Southerners invented a place called the North where we put all the people and cities we didn't want, like Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Kerry Katona.
When that became full up, we sent em to Australia