Burnley scores 4/10 as a place for under 26's to live

[bfcjg]

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Obviously they cannot be Clarets. Also for older people who reside in or around Burnley it has to be a ten surely ?

What score does your town get ?

[bfccrazy]

I guess it depends what you value - If you want super super fast internet and 4G coverage then there will be better places.

If you want a realistic chance of owning your own home and still being able to go on holidays, days out and socialise (and watch cheap Premiership football) ...... then Burnley will be perfect.

[LeadBelly]

I'm not a young person (by a long way) but I did the "find your ideal place" game on that BBC web-page linked & it came up with Leicester, Cardiff, Nottingham as 1,2,3. As it happens I've lived in all 3 of those places (when I was younger) & have to agree that Nottingham and Cardiff are excellent, Leicester not so much so when I was there.

[South West Claret.]

Just done my area and we only scored 3! which goes to prove to me that this survey has not been done very well at all.

This area is brilliant for a lot of things for all ages and that's why people who do move here rarely in my experience move away.

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[Burt]

Ribble Valley - just a 4

[bfccrazy]

Just done my area and we only scored 3! which goes to prove to me that this survey has not been done very well at all.

This area is brilliant for a lot of things for all ages and that's why people who do move here rarely in my experience move away.

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It is an odd one - Burnley area scores really low for Sports facilities.

- There are countless grass football pitches
- 3G pitches all over the place
- AstroTurf pitches
- sports halls
- parks galore (some with fitness equipment
- gyms all over
- bowling greens
- tennis courts
- skate parks
- Park Runs
- Golf Courses
- Foot Golf courses
- pitch and putt
- Fell Runners/hikers paradise down the road
- canals for fishing
- trampoline park
- boating lake (Thompson Park)
- climbing wall

(I’ve probably missed loads too)

As well as all the open wild areas that Burnley scored highly for. I am actually a little confused as to what more people would actually want/need?

[Pearcey]

Norwich- 7.

Bit of a strange rating system to be fair. Coventry got 6 and it’s a dreadful place!

[Clevedon Claret]

Living in North Somerset. It scores 3 also.??
Great place to live, young, or old. Imho, of course.

[Rick_Muller]

I've looked at the map and looked at the places that score highly and all I'll say is, what a load of cr@p. So many sh!tholes score highly (IMO), Newcastle; Oxford; Leeds; Birmingham; Coventry - granted, they'll have some nice parts, but generally sh!tholes.

The area I currently live scores a 4 too, as does my home town - both of which are better than those I've listed.

[Falcon]

It's all subjective really.

As others above have said, the cost of living is low and it's probably the best place in the country to get on the housing ladder. You could easily be earning a 'Manchester' wage but living in (and affording to buy and run) a decent sized house from a young age.

Added to that all the lovely green areas just a short walk from anywhere in the town and I think it's a lovely place to live.

[Taffy on the wing]

The fact that Ringo 'Brexit' McCartney lives there brings it down two whole points!

[LS7]

Tbh I would much rather be a young person in Leeds than Burnley: Employment opportunities; Leisure; Mix of people etc

[tim_noone]

Tbh I would much rather be a young person in Leeds than Burnley: Employment opportunities; Leisure; Mix of people etc

I thought leisure lived in Accy tbh? He's a Dark horse

[bfcjg]

Tbh I would much rather be a young person in Leeds than Burnley: Employment opportunities; Leisure; Mix of people etc

Sheep ?

[South West Claret.]

Regarding Burnley as an example with the obvious attractions listed above, the dreadful damp and wet weather would certainly bring the score down except that weather isn’t listed as an attraction so even more surprising why it’s scored low.

[Rileybobs]

To be fair, if you’re not under 26 then it’s entirely irrelevant what you think about this.

[Pimlico_Claret]

One man's **** hole is another's palace and thus it will ever be.

[whentheballmoves]

Sheffield 7. Probably fair, tbh...

[timshorts]

I'm not a young person (by a long way) but I did the "find your ideal place" game on that BBC web-page linked & it came up with Leicester, Cardiff, Nottingham as 1,2,3. As it happens I've lived in all 3 of those places (when I was younger) & have to agree that Nottingham and Cardiff are excellent, Leicester not so much so when I was there.

I did that too. It told me to live in Scunthorpe......

[Paul Waine]

It's certainly a strange survey. I looked up Richmond upon Thames - scores 0 for "wild/natural land" - and, yet it has Richmond Park the largest "park" in the UK - and it's all "natural land" - and that's without counting all the other "natural land areas" including Bushy Park where the park runs were started some years back. Then there's Wimbledon, again scores 0 - but I think we all know Wimbledon Common.

[1fatclaret]

It's an absolute nonsense.

Take pendle as an example

85% good 4g coverage, scores a 7. Surely 84% is 8.4 out of 10?

Green areas. 27% wild, scores a 4. There's nothing but countryside around here. Unless that makes it a bad score?

[Buxtonclaret]

High Peak only scores 4/10 too.
I'm surprised.

[Garnerssoap]

If you’re under 26 I’d have thought access to a decent secure well paid job with prospects would be pretty important but that doesn’t seem to feature.
Now it’s got a train link to Manchester Burnley wouldn’t be that bad an option for anyone.

[mdd2]

Just looked at about 6 places and the best places to live have the poorest MH services whilst the poorest 3-4/10 had the best MH services.
Of course correlation does not imply causation

[Falcon]

Assuming MH is mental health (I had to google it) then perhaps mental health issues are less prevalent in the best places to live and therefore less pressure for the MH services to be 'good'.

[criminalclaret]

Each to their own but a as a young person cities always offer much more to young single people so Burnley being so low down on a list doesn't surprise me.

Leeds is a great city for a young person, has plenty more job opportunities and nightlife, living close to the centre is relatively inexpensive and so are taxi's if you live in areas like Headingley or further out. Not to mention being so close to the Yorkshire dales

The pull of that or living in Burnley as 20 odd year old with much less advertised than above. It's a no brainer really can't be too surprised at all.