What it’s really like to live in one of the UK’s happiest towns: Tourists view it with rose-tinted glasses but the traffic’s hell, the people are snooty and you can no longer buy anything sensible on the high street

I moved to Richmond in 2002 intending to stay for four years, and twenty-four years later I am still here – which tells you everything you need to know about Richmond and absolutely nothing positive about my ability to stick to a plan.

The area, TW9 and TW10, is year-on-year voted one of Britain’s happiest places to live, although whenever I read one of those surveys, I find myself wondering who exactly they asked… because happiness in Richmond tends to manifest itself through complaints about parking permits, aircraft noise and almost everyone else who lives here.

Richmond is one of those places

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