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Thread: Personality and living in Britain quiz
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Heavenly Anarchist
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The BBC has a quiz on personality traits and where to live in Britain. Apparently my ideal location is Hinckley in the East Mids at 74% life satisfaction but my current location is actually 72% so I guess I won't be moving in a hurry.
My given percentage range seems quite small, they recommend I don't move to the outer Hebrides as that is only 61% life satisfaction.
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Sipech
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That's rather high. The best location for me was Mid Suffolk, but that only scored 49%. My current part of south London gives a rating of 33% though I am in one of the village-y bits than the urban jungle.
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L'organist
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Where I live I have a 54% chance of satisfaction. Somewhere I know in Kent is where the test says I'd have a 64% chance of satisfaction (I can't stand the place).
A place down the road (well, 12 miles or so) is the best in my area for me.
The worst place for me would be West Dunbartonshire at 51%.
I suppose it shows I can be reasonably happy where I am or almost anywhere but totally happy nowhere. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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The best for me would be Harrogate but that only give a miserable 42%. I suppose that's pretty damn cheerful for Yorkshire.
Newport gives me 28%, which makes me happier than the local average but I'd rate 36% living in Bristol. I'd be unhappiest in Corby, at just 22%, which like Newport used to have a big steelworks.
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leo
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Amazing - itm says that the best place for me to live is Dorset - that's where I lived for the 1st 18 years of my life.
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Alaric the Goth
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# 511
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I got 42% as well, but for Richmondshire ![[Smile]](smile.gif) , which would be near or at the top of my list of where I'd like to live if I could and hadn't got to be near work, family, etc.!
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Hedgehog
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Because I don't live in Britain, I had to make up a postal code when the quiz asked where I lived now. I used a Croydon area postal code--as it turns out, my more-or-less random pick would rate at 70% satisfaction. Apparently, though, my highest area of satisfaction would be West Somerset, at 74%. Worst would be Newham at 60%.
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pimple
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They said I'd be happiest in Rydale. But they got the location of my postcode wrong, and the best place near where I live is - where I live. They got that right.
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Golden Key
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# 1468
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Don't live in UK, so said I lived in the Orkneys.
--I should live in Oxford.
--Shouldn't in Eilean Siar (Outer Hebrides).
--Would be slightly better off in my pretend location of Orkneys OR in the Shetland Islands, rather than Outer Hebrides.
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Garasu
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Given that I got 75% for my current location, which I really don't like, I'm a bit sceptical.
My best location is supposedly South Cambridgeshire. Isn't it disconcertingly flat out there? Might be worth a try, though. If there were any jobs...
Where I work apparently has one of the lowest scores for 'openness' in the country. No surprise there!
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Best I got was 33% in Harrogate. Which probably explains why I'm a miserable bugger anywhere. Derby just down the road would apparently be the worst (and it is a bit of a dump). Only 21% for where I actually live. Apparently if I want to be better but nearby I should move to Matlock. As if - the prices are sky-high.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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# 13313
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quote:
Originally posted by Garasu:
Given that I got 75% for my current location, which I really don't like, I'm a bit sceptical.
My best location is supposedly South Cambridgeshire. Isn't it disconcertingly flat out there? Might be worth a try, though. If there were any jobs...
It is a lovely place to live ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) and Cambridge is nearby with high employment and high wages and friendly people.
We spend our holidays walking in places that aren't flat though...
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Ariston
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At first, I thought it was calling 41% of me a coward. Apparently, Craven is where I'd be least unhappy, though not much more miserable where I lived in OX1.
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Sioni Sais
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# 5713
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Craven is one of the nicer bits of Yorkshire, and this quiz places quite a few of us in such districts. Not that we appear especially happy about it but I suppose that matches our natural curmudgeonliness with that of the natives.
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North East Quine
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Best - 70% in North West Leicestershire
Worst - 53% in Newham
Current location - 62%. I thought it would be higher, because I love where I live.
However the "Best near me" at 63% is Dumfries and Galloway, which is beautiful, but it's 235 miles away. Not my definition of "near me."
How far away was every one else's place "near" them? Is well over 200 miles away usual?
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Sioni Sais
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# 5713
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Best - 70% in North West Leicestershire
Worst - 53% in Newham
Current location - 62%. I thought it would be higher, because I love where I live.
However the "Best near me" at 63% is Dumfries and Galloway, which is beautiful, but it's 235 miles away. Not my definition of "near me."
How far away was every one else's place "near" them? Is well over 200 miles away usual?
The quiz setter probably treats all parts of Scotland as "nearby", not realising that the extreme points are almost as far apart as are those of England.
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lilBuddha
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# 14333
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
At first, I thought it was calling 41% of me a coward. Apparently, Craven is where I'd be least unhappy, though not much more miserable where I lived in OX1.
Well, it put me there as well. Explains both our low levels of happiness there, but not why we would be even less so anywhere else.
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Tree Bee
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Interesting! Best place for me is Oxford, best nearby is Dunstable ( I don't think so!)
I prefer MK to both of these.
HA, we are about to sell a bungalow in Hinckley if you fancy giving it a go! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ariel
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I'll be happy 50% of the time in Wealden. (Where?) Otherwise, miserable in South Kesteven. But if I want to stay reasonably local, South Northamptonshire is apparently my best bet for happiness.
No thank you, I'll stick with Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, I wouldn't swop them for anywhere else in the country.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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# 13313
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Interesting! Best place for me is Oxford, best nearby is Dunstable ( I don't think so!)
I prefer MK to both of these.
HA, we are about to sell a bungalow in Hinckley if you fancy giving it a go!
I'm quite happy in Cambridge, thank you. Though I suspect I could afford a far bigger house there than here in Cambridge.
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
At first, I thought it was calling 41% of me a coward. Apparently, Craven is where I'd be least unhappy, though not much more miserable where I lived in OX1.
Well, it put me there as well. Explains both our low levels of happiness there, but not why we would be even less so anywhere else.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Interesting - it gave me 78% for Hart in Hampshire, 73% for where I live now and my worst place was Purbeck at 68% - which I know and love!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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# 13313
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Interesting - it gave me 78% for Hart in Hampshire, 73% for where I live now and my worst place was Purbeck at 68% - which I know and love!
like me, you register high percentages. Perhaps we are just happy wherever we are?
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Starbug
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I scored 57% for West Dorset, which is strange as I live in East Dorset. No way am I moving to Piddletrenthide!
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marzipan
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I had quite a narrow range from worst to best - apparently Ryedale would be best for me, and Knowsley worst (which is where I was born!)
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Welease Woderwick
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They think Craven would suit me as well - I love Skipton and Settle so they may have a point. I used my old Liverpool postcode and they suggested that I would be happier "over the water" in Wirral which is where I used to live and work and have my being before moving to Liverpool, where I was far, far happier.
All those places are cold and miserable in winter so I'm staying in India where it is warm 24/7/365!
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Sir Kevin
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I borrowed a Leeds postal code when I did the survey and it said East Midlands. The last place in the UK I spent anytime in was Russell Square and it seemed to be a good place for a holiday!
( I have distant relatives in Leeds. )
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jacobsen
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I live in North Oxfordshire, and was given a 63% level of satisfaction. The optimum would be South Cambridgeshire, with 66%. The closest to me, South Northamptonshire, with 64% - which is actually only 12 miles from me. The differences in levels hardly justify a move!
And the worst? Newham, where I lived for 27 years.
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Piglet
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I gave it the postcode of my old address in Belfast, which it didn't particularly like (not enough responses or something).
From that information it thinks my best location is Ryedale, which, being in Yorkshire, is presumably very pretty. Why it thinks I can't get better than 69% satisfaction is something of a mystery though, as I'm generally a fairly happy, contented piglet.
I then tried it with the postcode of where I grew up in Orkney, and it said that there I would have only 60% satisfaction (complete bollocks) and that my best option (61% satisfaction) near there would be Shetland!!!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
No-one with any brain-cells would suggest to an Orcadian that they ought to live in Shetland ...
Is outrage. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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