News flash! Apparently money doesn’t buy you happiness. A recent survey from the Social Market Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, revealed that relatively affluent London boroughs such as Islington, Hackney and Camden rank among the lowest in the country in terms of their residents’ happiness and life satisfaction. Ditto for plummy Wandsworth and Westminster. Similarly, a few years ago, in an ONS survey, Islington also found itself bottom of the pile when it came to the question of whether one’s life was worthwhile.
Given that I grew up in Camden, lived in Islington for most of my 20s and have been ensconced in Hackney for most of my 30s (although now technically dancing on the edge in Haringey), the news that Farrow & Ball painted walls and stone’s throw access to oat milk flat whites don’t mean life’s a peach only confirms what I’ve long suspected anyway.
