Why we live in Southampton - Vindication!
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Up to this point Southampton has been famous for five things…
1. Boats that almost make it to New York.
2. WWII fighters with cool names.
3. All the nice green and watery stuff that surrounds it.
4. A shorter commute into London than the commute for Londoners.
5. And us, naturally!
But now a specially commissioned survey of the 15 largest cities in the UK reconfirms what we knew all along - Southampton is a pretty cool place to be stranded. Men’s Health Magazine compared the cities in a number of categories, using 3 or 4 criteria in each case to draw up rankings. In these rankings Southampton was both the greenest and most hard-working city in the UK, and also the second fittest city behind London. Overall Southampton was…
1st Greenest City
1st Most Hard Working
2nd Fittest
2nd Least Dangerous
3rd Thinnest
5th Least Boozy
6th Cleanest
8th Sexiest
On the downside we were also the third most expensive city to live in, the second least sex-obsessed (not sure if that’s a good thing or not?) and also the 2nd worse city for single men. However, that must mean that we’re also 2nd best city for single women!
Overall it just goes to show why we’re all here in the first place, and why I….umm…live in Christchurch?!