Post-pandemic, place is more important than ever, and we are prepared to pay a premium to live in a village or village-style location. We may have swapped tending sheep on the village green for Instagram posts of the ducks on the pond, but today you may well still find an organic butcher, artisan baker and bespoke candlestick maker.
However, not all villages are equal, and only a select few have it all: attractive houses, good connections, a decent school and friendly neighbours who come together at the. Subscription Notification. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Please update your billing details here. If Britain were a village of people, 17 of the villagers would smoke, of whom 11 would like to give up. Nineteen adults and three children would be classified as obese that is they would have a Body Mass Index of 30 or greater.
Sixteen men and eight women would usually exceed the Government's daily sensible drinking benchmark units per day for men; units a day for women. Eight adults would be suffering from depression today but as many as 20 would suffer from depression at some point in their lifetime. The villagers would have mobile phones between them 66 of which would be pay-as-you-go. There would be 55 telephone landlines.
Twenty-one villagers would have watched Andy Murray beat Stanislas Wawrinka under floodlights at Wimbledon this year; 32 people would have watched Susan Boyle lose 'Britain's Got Talent'.
Of the 42 households in the village, 32 would have satellite, digital or cable television. Twenty-seven households would have access to the internet 24 of those would have a broadband connection. One of the 16 pupils would leave school this year. Twelve of them would, when the time comes, go into higher education. Of the 62 villagers of working age, 45 would have jobs; nine of them would be in the public sector.
Six would be claiming housing benefit; five would own their homes but have negative equity. The richest 10 people in the village would receive 30 per cent of the total income.
Between them, they would earn more than the poorest 50 combined. Fifty-six of the villagers would claim to have given to charity within the past four weeks.
Of the 42 households in the village, 18 would have at least one pet. Between them, those households would have 38 pets not including fish , including 13 dogs comprising 10 pedigrees, one cross and two mongrels and 13 cats 12 of which would be moggies, or non-pedigrees. Three of the villagers would be vegetarians and a further five would be partly vegetarian.
Of the 42 households in the village, 18 would have one car, 13 would have two or more cars and 10 would not have a car at all. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?
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