Where we live plays a huge role in our health, wellbeing and happiness.
Factors such as green spaces, how much traffic there is, air quality and weather conditions, for example, all affect a person’s quality of life.
While many of us Brits like to complain about our hometown, one UK city has actually been named as one of the healthiest locations in the world.
As part of this year’s Healthy Lifestyle Report by Lenstore, Plymouth in Devon took the number nine slot for this very reason beating cities such as Madrid, Sydney and Buenos Aires.
The report was based on a range of factors including life expectancy, adult obesity levels, air quality and happiness score.
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It also took into consideration the average number of hours worked, the cost of gym memberships, and the number of nature and park areas.
Research by Lenstore covered a total of 58 major cities globally.
Other UK cities ranked highly, with Norwich coming in 10th place, followed by Sheffield and Cardiff.
But it was Plymouth that was recognised to be the highest placed UK with a score of 65 percent.
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Overall, the city scored a total of 442 points out of a possible 684.
This was due to the city’s high air (73.81) and water quality (76.39), a high happiness score (56 out of a possible 100).
Residents also have a high average life expectancy of 81.77 years.
And the city boasted the highest number of average annual sunshine hours of all the UK cities compared as part of the study.
Looking at the rest of the list, Amsterdam and Vienna took the top spots, with an overall healthy living percentage of 78 per cent.
The full list is as follows:
- Amsterdam – 78 percent
- Vienna – 78 percent
- Geneva – 72 percent
- Helsinki – 71 percent
- Stockholm – 70 percent
- Zurich – 69 percent
- Frankfurt – 67 percent
- Copenhagen – 66 percent
- Plymouth – 65 percent
- Norwich – 63 percent
- Sheffield – 63 percent
- Cardiff – 62 percent
- Berlin – 62 percent
- Madrid – 61 percent
- Belfast – 60 percent
- Hull – 59 percent
- Liverpool – 59 per cent
- Buenos Aires – 58 percent
- Sydney – 57 percent
- Glasgow – 57 percent.
However, other cities in the UK did not perform particularly well.
London ranked just 36th overall, let down by high gym memberships and the small number of parks and green spaces in the city.
But Manchester was ranked even lower at 43rd.
This was due to a low number of parks and green space (0.01 per 10,000 residents) and a moderate air and water quality (49.55 and 37.5 respectively).
Ranked lowest across the whole world was Mexico City, scoring just 181.5 points out of a possible 684.
The Mexican capital had a low average life expectancy age (75.41 years), very low air quality (18.72), and low water quality (32.42).
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