{"id":17869,"date":"2019-01-26T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2019-01-26T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T07:34:18","slug":"good-broadband-helps-survey-find-top-50-best-uk-places-to-live-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/01\/good-broadband-helps-survey-find-top-50-best-uk-places-to-live-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Broadband Helps Survey Find Top 50 Best UK Places to Live &#8211; 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Halifax Quality of Life Survey (Bank of Scotland) has just been published, which balances a combination of broadband speed, health, crime rate, weather, employment, happiness and skills in order to identify the best places to live in the UK. Once again Orkney in Scotland comes top of the list.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, residents of the <strong>Orkney Islands<\/strong> benefit from an above average employment rate of (9 out of 10 people aged 16 to 64 are in work), as well as good health, low traffic congestion on the roads and locals also tend to mark themselves as being some of the happiest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Broadband connectivity also plays its part in the ranking as one of the measures (based on data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>), but this is one area where Orkney does tend to fall short. At present only around two thirds of the islands can access &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<strong>24Mbps+<\/strong>) speeds and more than a quarter can only get sub-10Mbps (USO level) speeds via fixed ISP networks.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly Halifax has a problem on this front since the bank tends to use a fairly weak definition for good broadband (i.e. &#8220;<em>the proportion of premises able to receive 5Mbps<\/em>&#8220;), although sadly the report doesn&#8217;t show us how much of an impact internet connectivity has actually had for each of the top listed areas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>2019 Top UK Local Authority Districts for Quality of Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 South Oxfordshire, South East<br \/>\n\u2013 Rutland, East Midlands<br \/>\n\u2013 St Albans, East of England<br \/>\n\u2013 Wychavon, West Midlands<br \/>\n\u2013 Westminster, London<br \/>\n\u2013 Cotswold, South West<br \/>\n\u2013 Richmondshire, Yorkshire and the Humber<br \/>\n\u2013 Monmouthshire, Wales<br \/>\n\u2013 Orkney, Scotland<br \/>\n\u2013 Eden, North West<br \/>\n\u2013 Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland<br \/>\n\u2013 Northumberland, North East<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>2019 Top 50 UK Areas for Quality of Life<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n1. 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Harrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber<br \/>\n27. Babergh, East of England<br \/>\n28. West Oxfordshire, South East<br \/>\n29. South Buckinghamshire, South East<br \/>\n30. Windsor and Maidenhead, South East<br \/>\n31. Warwick, West Midlands<br \/>\n32. Elmbridge, South East<br \/>\n33. Chichester, South East<br \/>\n34. Stratford-on-Avon, West Midlands<br \/>\n35. Lichfield, West Midlands<br \/>\n36. Malvern Hills, West Midlands<br \/>\n37. Rochford, East of England<br \/>\n38. Chiltern, South East<br \/>\n39. Shetland, Scotland<br \/>\n40. Richmond-upon-Thames, London<br \/>\n41. West Berkshire, South East<br \/>\n42. Basingstoke and Deane, South East<br \/>\n43. South Hams, South West<br \/>\n44. Fareham, South East<br \/>\n45. St Edmundsbury, East of England<br \/>\n46. Wycombe, South East<br \/>\n47. Mid Suffolk, East of England<br \/>\n48. Monmouthshire, Wales<br \/>\n49. Daventry, East Midlands<br \/>\n50. 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