Manchester<\/a>, which came just ahead of London, having been picked by 11.7 per cent of respondents.<\/p>\nThe capital city has long been the top choice for people moving away from home to further their careers.<\/p>\n
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Manchester is Britain’s ‘favourite city’ (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
But the rapid growth of Manchester in the last 25 years has seen the city emerge as the main competitor to London.<\/p>\n
Both cities were clear favourites in the survey, placed well ahead of Edinburgh, which came in third, and was chosen by 7.6 per cent of respondents.<\/p>\n
York was named in fourth place after being picked by 7.4 percent of those surveyed.<\/p>\n
In fifth place was Liverpool, which was chosen by 5.7 percent of respondents.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the list, only 2.5 percent picked Glasgow as the place they would choose to live, and 3.6 per cent selected Birmingham.<\/p>\n
The research was conducted by Mindshare UK, who found Manchester is hugely popular among Brits.<\/p>\n
Just under half of those surveyed in the North West and Cumbria think it should replace London as the capital.<\/p>\n
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11.9 percent of people surveyed named Manchester as the city they would choose to live (Image: Mindshare UK)<\/p>\n
If Londoners were to pick another city to live in, their top choice is Manchester as voted for by 19 percent of respondents.<\/p>\n
One person surveyed said: \u201cEverybody’s moving back to Manchester. The youngsters love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nationally, around 22 percent of Gen Z’s and 21 percent of Millennials want Manchester to be the new capital, rather thankeeping it as London.<\/p>\n
Julia Ayling, Head of Research at Mindshare UK, who led the report, commented on the findings: \u201cManchester has positioned itself across the UK as a popular alternative to London as a capital.\u201d<\/p>\n
The research was conducted by Mindshare UK for media company WPP Media, and its report, Shaping the Nation, in partnership with Reach, Blis, Mobsta, Captify, Channel 5, JCDecaux and Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our northern city has topped the list of Britain’s favourite cities, overtaking the capitalManchester has taken the top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,2465,8086,10003,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-property-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114763754917757464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Manchester has taken the top spot as the UK’s most desirable city(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n