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Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas & Abbie Meehan

Edinburgh voted as one of the UK's most miserable cities in new study

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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