The best place to live in Scotland is Shetland
22 November 2008
Shetland came out as having the best quality of life in Scotland in the third annual Halifax Quality of Life Survey which was published today.
The survey tracks where living standards are highest in Great Britain by ranking local performance across key indicators; covering the labour market, the housing market, the environment, education and health. The index examines data at local authority level. 408 local authorities were analysed in the survey. Data has been gathered from sources including the ONS, DEFRA, the Met Office, the Department for Transport and the Halifax house price database.
Shetland was ranked 109th in Great Britain as a whole.
The survey reveals that Shetland property prices for the year to September 2008 were 24 per cent lower than the Scottish average. It also confirms that Shetland has a high employment rate, high secondary education grade results and low traffic flows per square kilometre.