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Edinburgh is the most miserable place to live in the UK. Perhaps it's to do with stags, hens and pesky noisy neighbours

Early warning. Today's online shenanigans are downbeat, depressing and not for the faint-hearted. So, a normal day then. First up, Auld Reekie is not a happy place to live.

Edinburgh residents are generally a bit miserable and silly and half-bevvied, but the city itself is far nicer than the vast majority of UK cities. What is happiness anyway?
The Genuine Mario Antoinette

If such research tells me I am unhappy, am I therefore bound to be unhappy, or is it all a state of mind?
Astounded of Edinburgh

When did they conduct the survey? Immediately after the Co-op Cup results?
JayDeeTee

If so, we were lucky to come bottom.

Edinburgh is certainly not a bad place to live but in many ways it is over-rated. What we don't hear about is the real Edinburgh. The Edinburgh full of drugs and crime which does not get reported in case it damages the city's so-called reputation!!
Keith 1

Ease off the Irvine Welsh stuff for a while, eh.

I think this just says that Edinburgers have high standards when it comes to what we expect from life in this city.
Irn-Bruce

Edinburgh had scenery, it wasn't too busy and there was a decent standard of living. Now it is all being lost. The Council are destroying the city's scenery, the city is overcrowded and everything is expensive.
Statsman

Lordy, this was carried out in part by Manchester Uni? Methinks they are trying to deflect from the misery on their own doorstop ...
Salvatori

The soon-to-be-married obviously enjoy themselves in the Capital. Too much for those in the Old Town's liking, though.

There are many ways to stop this kind of behaviour on a small scale (like refusing to serve them, as this already happens in some restaurants in Edinburgh) and on to bigger measures like taking greater care to ensure hotels and rented accommodation are not rented to large, rowdy groups. It happens in many other countries, i.e. the States and even Ireland.
Zugspitze

What's needed for Edinburgh as a whole is a three strikes rule. Three separate complaints from neighbours about noise or other antisocial behaviour, validated by police or noise wardens, and the address loses its licence as a rental.
A Friend of Fernando Poo

Decent suggestions. On the other side of the fence ...

Couldn't we just shoot people who wear amusing matching T-shirts ?
The Genuine Mario Antoinette

Just do what they do in Italy – throw a bucket of water on their heads, and if that doesn't work, olive oil.
Foo

You sure that's what they do? Or were you at a Tuscan version of a foam party?

This is Edinburgh central, what does one expect? Like living near an airport – of course you're going to have noise. Research the place before you live in it.
Charles Linskaill

If the stags and hens don't wake you, noisy neighbours will. And we'll complain.

I read about a family in Perth who played a Britney Spears song over and over. They were eventually evicted but guess what? The council gave them another house in the town! Can't understand it!
elayne

Me neither. A stereo system in Perth?