Edinburgh has been named as one of the most miserable places to live in the UK, as English city Colchester tops the list in a new poll.
According to research conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), both Glasgow and Edinburgh were included in this unhappy list. The study is done each year, and asks respondents for a rating of of ten alongside their sense of life satisfaction, how worthwhile they feel, and levels of anxiety.
Residents of Colchester reported an average happiness score of 6.8, some way below the UK's average happiness rating of 7.45, reports the Mirror.
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The City of Edinburgh was ranked 14th on the list of lowest happiness rating, with Glasgow City edging further up into ninth.
The full list is as follows:
The 20 local authorities ranked lowest for 'happiness'
1. Colchester
2. Redditch
3. Norwich
4. Tunbridge Wells
5. Lambeth
6. Mid Sussex
7. Mansfield
8. Craven
9. Glasgow City
10. Epsom and Ewell
11. Rhondda Cynon Taf / Rhondda Cynon Taf
12. Crawley
13. Sunderland
13. Stevenage
14. City of Edinburgh
15. Greenwich
16. Malvern Hills
17. Haringey
18. Liverpool
19. South Lanarkshire
20. North Tyneside
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