We’ve been called the coolest, the trendiest, the most creative, the happiest and most friendly, and now Bristol has been given another accolade - it’s been named one of the ‘most pleasant’ places to live in Britain.
The tag has been awarded by storage firm Safestore, who undertook what appears to be a fairly comprehensive assessment of data covering everything from how charitable people are to how much green space there is per person.
And in comparing Britain’s major cities, Bristol does not come out too shoddily at all, thank you very much.
Safestore broke it all down into four different areas of life - wellbeing, charity, young people and care, and analysed data in all four different areas.
And in all four, Bristol consistently performed well, finishing in the top four cities for almost everything, way ahead of the likes of Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester and London.
Interestingly, places like Edinburgh and Cardiff matched Bristol on being seen as ‘pleasant’.
Charity
Bristol is among the top cities in the country for the number of charity shops, events and jobs in the charity sector - a sign of a generous city which looks after those less fortunate or raises money for good causes.
In all, it finishes fourth, but misses out on third probably only because Edinburgh has a disproportionately larger number of registered charities - because it’s Scotland’s capital.
Young people
Safestore added together the amount of parks, the number of good schools and the student satisfaction to put Bristol right up there again, compared with other cities.
We’ve got the most parks per km2 - bar Cardiff - and the highest level of student satisfaction - bar Leeds - but compared to the rest of the country, our schools are not great. For every 100,000 of population, Bristol has only 0.41 Ofsted outstanding-rated schools, compared with 9.66 in Newcastle, and 4.61 in Manchester.
Care and well being
And when it comes to well being, Bristol doesn’t do too badly either - although isn’t exactly great.
It has a health 6.56 different volunteering opportunities per 10,000 people, compared with two or three in Birmingham and Glasgow, while only London and Manchester has fewer hospices per 100,000 people.
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