The Sunday Times has published its Best Places to Live guide and some will be happy to learn that Bristol has made the list in the South West. The top spot for the region went to Cirencester, but Bristol got an honourable mention.
However Bristolians will be less happy to discover the reasons why judges deemed the city to be worthy of a place on the guide. This was the entry for why Bristol is considered such a great place to live.
"Bristol has a popularity problem. It’s so good that everyone wants to live here — and with good reason. It has everything: it’s urban and rural, posh and gritty, homely and highbrow. But there are side-effects: terrible traffic and serious grumbles over a Clean Air Zone and the e-scooter scheme.
