Map reveals UK’s happiest places to live – does your town make the list?
A MAP has revealed the UK’s happiest places to live.
While London has long been hailed the best place for ambitious workers – Brits are a lot happier with their jobs in smaller cities.
A study found employees are more satisfied in Cambridge, Brighton and Bristol.
Smaller cities fill the top spots, the research – carried out by employer rating site Glassdoor – found.
Also making the top five are Newcastle and London.
While the UK average job satisfaction was 75%, Cambridge came in at 78%.
It was followed by Brighton, Bristol, Newcastle and London at 77%.
Brighton was rated top for pay, senior leadership and work-life balance by employees.
While Newcastle was voted number one for Diversity and Inclusion.
Since the pandemic burnout has been on the rise, researchers claimed.
Yet workers in Brighton ranked their city top for work-life balance.
Glassdoor researchers looked at 100,000 reviews left by employees in 2022.
Lauren Thomas, UK economist at Glassdoor, said “smaller cities are winning the hearts of workers”.
She added: “London is often romanticised as the city to reach the peak of your career and earning capacity, but Glassdoor’s latest analysis shows that you can find a job with a great salary and work-life balance outside of the M25.
“With its position as the UK’s sixth best city for work-life balance, London is living up to its reputation as a pressure cooker.
“The capital’s amazing career opportunities and top pay are commonly cited to justify the stress, however, it seems that job seekers don’t always agree; London placed sixth for compensation and benefits – despite the highest salaries in the country.
“While this doesn’t necessarily mean London salaries are low, it could be a strong indicator that rising rents and house prices, the cost of living crisis and inflation are making the city unaffordable.”
It comes after Chichester in West Sussex was named by another study as the happiest place in the UK because it gets the most hours of sunlight.