The best places in Britain for longevity? (Clue: it helps whether you have money)Easy-peasy: somewhere rich (this week’s column comes via the Research Institute of the Bleeding Obvious). Office for National Statistics figures released in December showed that for a long life,please emerge into the universe in Camden (for women, 86.8 years) or Kensington & Chelsea (for men, or 83.7 years).
Can’t afford to be born on the most expensive patches of land in the country? Hmm. Have you considered numbers two and three on the lists? East Dorset? The Chilterns? Perhaps Hart,just off the M3? inadequate funds available? There’s the rub.
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Source: guardian.co.uk