Nottingham - worst unemployment figures
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JHE
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Yes, or 17th or 13th, depending on which of those rankings you choose. That table is a couple of years out of date, though.
8ball
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It appears to still have one.
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Quality of life here is great
What do you mean by 'quality of life' here?
dessiato
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Indeed it does! I'm going to go for the wings! I love Hooters wings.
Vintage Paw
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I grew up in Long Eaton, so Nottingham is my home city, really. I moved to Stoke-on-Trent in 1996, and I remember going to a talk by the then-elected mayor who was extolling the virtues of Nottingham and how it was revitalising the city, trying to convince People Who Matter that Stoke should emulate Nottingham. I remember rolling my eyes then, and now I am doubly-so.
8ball
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Quality of life is more than just disposable income after rent and taxes are removed from wages. I'm sure it's on Wikipedia if you want the text book definition
I wanted your definition.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
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AFAIK Nottingham tends to look bad in statistical terms because a lot of the more well off areas are technically outside the City so aren't counted. As a 'metropolitan area' or whatever you want to call it it's not so bad.
That's probably true, but it applies to a lot of cities of about Nottingham's size that are also unitary authorities. The boundaries tend to be quite tightly drawn, meaning that a) the population figures don't really reflect the city's size, and b) the more affluent areas fall outside the local authority area and don't show up in the statistics. That's certainly the case in Hull and Leicester, to name two off the top of my head.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Yeah, I'm sure it happens all over the place and you'd need a lot more time, expertise and interest than I have to start picking out the details. I'm really just saying that my personal experience of Nottingham is that it's not that bad and I think the various 'worst this that or the other' stats about the place are a bit misleading.
Tom A
Goat among sheep
This can be argued of Manchester to an extent. The only truly affluent areas in the City of Manchester are Chorlton, Withington and Didsbury. All the other posh places tend to be in Trafford (Sale/Altrincham), Salford (although not classed as such, e.g. Irlam, Worsley) and parts of Stockport (the Heatons, Cheadle and its environs) and Bury (Prestwich and Whitefield).
