The UK's happiest place has been named - and it turns out it's Bournemouth.
A survey was conducted by Pensionbee to determine the 'most caring' place in the UK. It looked at nine different elements, including how much a town or city looks out for community, cares about the environment and focuses on charity.
One of the questions participants were asked - and the most important one, as far as we're concerned - was how happy they are. This came under the 'community' umbrella, which also asked how many animal shelters there were, and looked at the homelessness rate.
But what were the rankings for happiness? Well, rated higher than anywhere else in the UK was Bournemouth, in Dorset, with a score of 7.7 out of 10.
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See if your town made it into the top 10:
- Bournemouth
- Reading
- Northampton
- Portsmouth
- Leicester
- Plymouth
- Luton
- Manchester
- Peterborough
- Coventry
CEO at PensionBee, Romi Savova said: "Our research highlights the caring nature of many residents in towns and cities across England, based on a range of factors relating to community, charity and the environment.
"The past year has been difficult, but it's also brought many of us together and shown how caring our communities can be.
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"We've seen people go out of their way to help vulnerable neighbours, and strangers, survive during tough periods of isolation, while furloughed workforces volunteered at local charities to support them through this challenging time.
"When times are tough, communities will often pull together in a show of strength and solidarity."
Oh, and if you're wondering which town ranked as the most caring over all, turns out it was Norwich. They'll enjoy that.
Last month, it was also revealed that Finland has been announced as the happiest country to live for the fourth year running.
This year's World Happiness Report - which, as the name suggests, looks at national happiness levels - is out and once again Finland has taken the top spot, followed by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Rounding out the top ten was Sweden, Germany, Norway, New Zealand and Austria.
The United Kingdom fell from 13th to 18th place.
The 2020 report said it had been 'a year like no other' due to the pandemic and, as such, the polls organisers took those considerations into account while conducting the study.
Sharing the results, the team from World Happiness Report said: "This whole report focuses on the effects of Covid-19 and how people all over the world have fared.
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"Our aim was twofold, first to focus on the effects of Covid-19 on the structure and quality of people's lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world have dealt with the pandemic.
"In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others."
The report found that despite the pandemic, the ranking more or less remained consistent with last year.
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