The weather and tourists may get sometimes you down, but Edinburgh’s residents are the most financially comfortable and have the longest lie-ins, Time Out’s UK-wide city survey has found.
Time Out’s City Living Survey asked readers in our cities (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Manchester) a variety of probing questions to build a picture of what it’s like to reside in a city in 2015.
Edinburgh and Glasgow were the only two cities where the average person said the money they needed to be comfortable was less than what they earned - in Edinburgh the average salary of respondents is £28,000, while you reckon you need £26,000 to live on happily.
Residents of Edinburgh also sleep in the latest – with the average person getting up at 7.11am to start their working day – although this isn’t at the cost of personal hygiene as you’re among the people in the UK who shower most often.
We also found that Edinburghers are among those who have the most sex, with 31% of you telling us that you’d been getting frisky in the past week. Could this be linked to the high level of showering? Who knows - but we’ve found out that Bristol dwellers shower the least often and have less sex than residents of any other city.
We also asked what it is that annoys you most about living in Edinburgh. The weather, cost of living, traffic and tourists were among some of your major bugbears. Although they might make Edinburgh famous across the globe, the festivals aren’t universally popular, with flyering and how busy it gets during August also causing grumbles.
But despite these complaints, most of you are planning on sticking around – with just 22% of respondents considering making a move.
The survey has also revealed that the unhappiest people live in Bristol, the most stressed residents are in Birmingham, Manchester has the happiest population and Leeds is home to the fewest insomniacs. And what about London? They’re the most financially starved – but they do have the most sex.
Check out the Time Out City Living Survey results in Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, London and Glasgow.