See here!

http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=47582

Three cheers for the town of Salop! :P :lol:

only 112th and no mention of Clunshire,the swines :D

s.g.d.

I think Clunshire would come under South Shropshire... unfortunately!

But maybe it's best that it is kept a secret... wink wink hint hint.... ;)

"The Halifax Home Insurance Quality of Life Survey looks at health, earnings, house prices, weather, life expectancy, employment rates, levels of traffic, house size and educational performance."

Interesting! Let's compare Shrewsbury and Telford on each of these factors.

Health - what is being measured? Access to healthcare? Number of people claiming incapacity benefit? Number of heart attacks? Telford, a town which are lot of youngish working people moved to in the 1970s and 1980s, is likely to have a significant number of poor pensioners these days.

Earnings - related to house prices surely. There are not a lot of jobs in this town these days. No-one who earns the Shropshire average could possibly afford a family home in much of Shrewsbury.

House prices - heavily skewed, I would have thought, by the traditionally expensive bits of town in Shrewsbury. As for Telford - OK, there's Priorslee and places like that (I doubt Ironbridge was covered) but not many "old money" areas.

Weather - oh dear. We all know Shrewsbury is a frost pocket and has more fog than average, neither of which are particularly helpful.

Employment rates - see house prices. If you don't have a job, you can hardly afford to live in much of Shrewsbury. Houses are generally cheaper and there is (still) a bit more unskilled/semi-skilled work available in Telford.

Levels of traffic - eh? I imagine there would be more lorries etc. around Telford to service what remains of the manufacturing there, but Shrewsbury is not exactly free from congestion.

House size - can't think there would be much difference really, although I suppose Shrewsbury will have more large houses with servants quarters and fewer maisonettes.

Educational performance - related to all of these (although perhaps less so to the weather).

There are some crap parts of Shrewsbury i would not want to live ,and the same applies to Telford.

Ah but who has the crapper crap parts?

I'm not surprised that Shrewsbury is at the top of this or any such list. It's been a wonderful place for a very long time. I studied the 19th-century period of Shropshire history a few years ago, and in doing so, I lived in Shrewsbury off and on from 1967 to 1973. I was single at that time.
I brought my wife back with me in 2004, so I could include her in my good memories of Shrewsbury. I saw some changes (after 30 years) and let me say,
You Are Doing Well!
Vince Walsh
Wayne, PA
(Valley Forge area of Pennsylvania)

Lets name and shame them,or would that be too controversial?