20 best and worst places to live

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Did anyone see this - I only saw the last few places and I want to know what the others were! Can't even see anything listing them on the C4 website.

Marina, I had to keep her away at a safe distance or else I think she'd have frisked him and was having a lovely time imagining what the man could have done to be arrested (bus was empty, with hazards on, driver prob now has PTSD, usual sort of Weds am stuff)

dd1 Loves the police - and tells them so (or gets me to) at Holborn and Finsbury Park stns every morning you should see their faces when I tell them...

that was a bit of an irritating post raspberry!

The programme makers tried to come up with objective quantifiable criteria - but the thing is whether you like living somewhere is very subjective and really defies measurement. I'm quite familiar with both Guildford and Harrogate and like them both - but wouldn't want to live in either place.

Guildford is up itself imo (lived there for a couple of yrs) but like Betty's tea rooms in Harrogate

no chip oo, just poking fun at this crass prog

afterall, there's good and bad in all areas (even in Cheshire where I live )

What we really need in this country though is a serious debate on why there is such a great north/south & inner city/elsewhere divide and what can be done about it, crass progs like this one don't help

Yes Raspberry, but some of us are BMW 5 series owners and get peed off by peurile generalisations about this.

Sorry, perhaps having a sense of humour failure!

Bundle - I agree, that is why I wouldn't want to live there.

But this polarisation of urban vs rural, inner vs burbs desirable lifestyles happens in all developed countries as far as I know. It's not confined to the UK, although not everyone is lucky enough to have Phil and Kirstie to explain it to us all so insightfully...

Should qualify rasp - not picking a fight and calling you puerile!

I think it was a divisive and unhelpful programme and comments about needing a bullet proof vest if you live in Nottingham are just plain offensive...

I love where I live and don't need the divine Phil and stylistically challenged Kirsty backing up my lifestyle choices, but it was a very South Eastern biased programme which raised a few heckles in our household!

I think the program was fair enough - in that they presented the results of their statistical analysis.

However, I think you can pretty much poke holes in the relative weightings they gave the different components of the analysis. For example no consideration of congestion for example. The only valued leisure seemed to be what you pay for (pubs, clubs, theatres, etc) and parks - no consideration of access to national parks etc.

Not a bad start - but as a research project it needs some refining. Hopefully it will shame the worst places into sorting themselves out a bit (both the authorities and the inhabitants).

also - when you are averaging over whole districts then many of the best and worst places would have been averaged out by their neighbours in the same district.

Kirsty and Phil are just two ponces in a sea of many. Of course they were going to 'find' almost all the 'best' places to live in the South East! I mean, these are people who regularly showcase people searching for homes with a 'budget' of £500,000.

I don't know about you folks, but £500,000 (or even £300,000) is a fking miracle to me, not a 'budget'.

Hell, I'd never be able to afford to drive the type of cars they do unless I were working as a driver or chauffeur!

I find them amusing. The way watching an ant farm is.

Stratford Upone Avon was in Top 5 best places and is, I agree a really lovely place to visit but would hate to live there with all those tourists swarming round! You can't park anywhere and the pavements/attractions etc are packed.
My Mom is still moving there tho!

hmc - us Alfa Romeo owners are just jealous that's all!

(although all Beamer drives are facist roadhogs who don't realise their car has indicators or can pull over left )

HMC - why would you not want to live in Harrogate

Raspberry, lol - my soh has made a reappearance.

Well Northerner, my perception was that the age demographics were largely...older. Except for your tender young self of course.

Where is Harrogate?

Near York. Very posh.

I'd love to live in somewhere like Harrogate, but couldn't do my job there or get similar work

I agree Lizzylou - I thought that comments like 'need a bullet proof vest' and 'the fat capital of the uk' (about somewhere else) were unhelpful!

yes I see what you mean. We do have rather alot of Nursing homes, and rather alot of eccentric people also who can be found in the town centre talking to the sky and the like.

Betty's is lovely, but no one who lives here actually goes. It's about £5 for a cup of tea

I quite fancy Westminster actually - after my lottery ticket comes in.

Even if I won the £77m Euro Millons jackpot, I wouldn't live in Westminster or London at all. No way. Not for all the tea in China.

It's a fun place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

No I wouldn't choose to live in London either.

Different strokes for different folks