Something To Cheer You Up

[Mark W]

http://www.uswitch.com/Press-Room/Index.as...Y-OF-LIFE-INDEX

[Rikos]

Just clrarifies what most people thought anyway to be honest!

[Kazi]

Sounds about right

[Noel]

Last census over here revealed that 100,000 UK citizens are now living in Ireland..... they've gone the wrong way, according to that report Spain is the place to go...

Maybe they should circulate that report in Nigeria

[maneesh]

The grass ALWAYS looks greener on the other side.

There are major disparities within the UK.

For example, life expectancy is significantly lower in Glasgow compared to parts of London.

Parts of England are surprisingly dry, which is contrary to the stereotypical view—London receives less rain annually than Rome, Sydney or New York. In East Anglia it typically rains on about 113 days per year. Most of the south, south-east and East Anglia receive less than 700 mm of rain per year. The English counties of Essex and Cambridgeshire are amongst the driest in the UK, with an average annual rainfall of around 600 mm. In some years rainfall totals in Essex can be below 450 mm—less than the average annual rainfall in Jerusalem and Beirut.

The average total annual sunshine in the United Kingdom is 1339.7 hours, which is just under 30% of the maximum possible. The south coast of England often has the clearest skies because cumulus cloud formation generally takes place over land, and prevailing winds from the south-west keep this cloud from forming overhead. The counties of Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex and Kent have annual average totals of around 1,750 hours of sunshine per year. Northern, western and mountainous areas are generally the cloudiest areas of the UK, with some mountainous areas receiving less than 1,000 hours of sunshine a year.