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Stokies are the most friendly in the UK :)
OfflineWe have the strongest sense of community in all of the UK. Either we are set in our ways, or there is something different going on.
Edinburgh is the loneliest place to live in the UK, according to a study commissioned by the BBC, but not Stoke-on-Trent. we have the lowest amount of "lonely" people, with a figure of just 22.4%.
The figure is calculated by the number of non-married adults in the area and the number of one-person households.
It also covers those who moved to their current address within the last year and people renting privately.
As well as that, Stoke area 'is least fragmented'
People in north Staffordshire and south Cheshire have the strongest sense of belonging in the UK, research suggests.
The Changing UK report, commissioned by BBC Nations and Regions, looked at how communities have changed over 40 years.
Britain was more polarised with people living among their "own kind" in terms of age and economics, which may lead to feelings of isolation, it found.
But social fragmentation was lowest in the BBC Radio Stoke area, the report suggested.
Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7753080.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7724874.stm
Whats new on Bankeyfields
"Who's lonelier? The confident, independent student at Edinburgh university living on her own in a rented bedsit, seeing her boyfriend and her mates four nights a week and spending the others on Facebook? Or the infirm 80-year-old with barely any education and a monosyllabic husband who's lived on the same estate in suburban Stoke for the past 50 years? I know who I'd rather be."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/robert_crampton/arti...
Cramptons argument was standing up untill he tried to summarise it in his last paragraph.Then he fell flat on his pompus posterior.
Well, I guess I'm classed as one of those "Lonely" 22.4%, but not a chance, since I moved to Stoke a few years ago now, I've found you all to be very friendly, and more than one group of people have taken me into their circle of friends almost like a member of the family. I think it's great that Stoke has finally been recognised for something, even if the stats are strangely calculated.
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