The UK is home to some of the most beautiful and attractive places on earth, as well as some of the worst.
The Unhappiest Place on Earth
And it appears that some locals are upset about living in the latter after learning they do so after learning it is the least happy place in the UK.
The Essex-based city, famous for its zoo and 11th-century castle, has reportedly outperformed all other depressing places in terms of its people’s happiness, anxiety levels, and life satisfaction, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
It’s Colchester, that’s for sure.
Colchester, which was only given city status three months ago, has already earned the reputation of being a town where hopes go to die.
Colchester received the lowest overall average happiness score of any town or city, receiving just 6.8 out of 10, according to the statistics, which were gathered from Brits across the UK.
One local reacted to the tweet outcome with: “What a bunch of utter tripe,” while another added: “That explains a few things.”
“I was born at Colchester Military Hospital, and I spent my formative years there,” Andrew said of the sad city. “The ONS data doesn’t surprise me at all.”
The fact that Redditch was the only place to enter the top five for dissatisfaction, life satisfaction, and finding their living there to be worthwhile may surprise (or not) the town’s residents this year.
The good, but marginally less unhappy, citizens of Norwich ranked third among all Americans in terms of unhappiness, but they were also noted as having the highest levels of anxiousness.
The rest of us are just grateful that we don’t reside in such a terrible area of the UK.