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Roath Park is a lovely area - pots of dosh if you live there :-D :-D :-D

I had a lovely weekend at a wedding in Cardiff. There seemed to be plenty of dosh around. ;-)

Beautiful city. We stayed in a lovely hotel on Cardiff Bay, which is looking amazing.

My aunt lives in a house overlooking Roath Park, fabulous place to live.

I'm so pleased to see Cardiff on the list, not just because I live here but because one of our members absolutely trashed Cardiff on every front on the Educating Cardiff thread

What's your favourite Gin?

Say Liverpool ....

At least my favourite city made it - just. :-D


But I'm very surprised that Norwich didn't make the list :-(

based on a range of factors -including numbers of millionaires, average annual pay, percentage of households giving to charity, business survival rates and exam scores

"The number of millionaires in the UK has increased by 41% over the past five years thanks to booming house prices and stock market gains, according to new figures.

The Barclays UK Prosperity Map shows there are now 715,000 millionaires living in Britain compared with 508,000 in 2010. Interestingly, nearly half, or 48%, of all new millionaires since 2010 live outside London and the South East.

Its prosperity index found that Reading, Cambridge and Birmingham are the most affluent cities outside of London.

Surging property prices and large returns in equity markets in recent years have combined with higher wages and employment rates to create more millionaires as the UK economy gets back on track.

The research shows that every UK region is now more affluent than it was five years ago, with measures including household wealth, gross domestic product, exam results, charitable donations and entrepreneurship taken into account."

So not a measure of actual prosperity per head of population in that area.

Is it based on house prices?

Is it based on house prices?

Don't know how Leeds have got in the top 10 cities..

Shock.

Reading seemed a little odd to me

Surprised to see a couple of places in the top ten prosperous-list.

Cities ranked according to the prosperity index

1. London
2.Reading
3. Cambridge
4.Birmingham
5.Bristol
6. Leeds
7.Cardiff
8.Manchester
9.Liverpool
10.Newcastle