The term happy can be a challenge to define as everyone's definition is unique to them, but the over-arching explanation of the word by the Oxford English Dictionary is 'the state of pleasurable contentment of mind; deep pleasure in or contentment with one's circumstances'.
But surely there's little doubt amongst most people that where you live is one of the core strands in life that can affect your happiness, and this became more evident during the Covid-19 pandemic when so many more people, if they could, made plans to move to a new home, leading to the most remarkable and rapid heating up of the property market in recent years.
Every year property portal Rightmove produces a 'Happy at Home Index' as a way of quantifying the happiest hot spots across Great Britain. Now in its eleventh year, the index is conducted among over 21,000 people across Great Britain, to find the top twenty happiest places to call home.
