On the solid financial food for the future the U.K. Government's Home Secretary Sajid Javid has given his backing to the police and the trial is a facial recognition software which is designed to help spot suspects and public spaces the scheme that's being piloted in several police forces including by police Scotland but has been heavily criticised by human rights campaigners a plan to train frontline staff light police officers teachers and pharmacists to recognise the signs of trauma is being published by the Scottish Government the aim is to ensure staff will be better placed to help the estimated one and 5 adults in Scotland have experienced some form of trauma and childhood like abuse or neglect health secretary Jean Freeman says it's not just aimed at emergency service staff this particular plan is focused on employers to help them work out how to train their own staff so that if they are frontline staff they can work better with people coming to them for that service support who themselves have experienced trauma and this year's transmit festival gets underway in Glasgow later as some of the biggest names in music will grace the stages at Glasgow Green from today until Sunday Louise Roberson has more to D.C. 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That's the sound of the Highlands and Islands this morning the happiest place to live in Scotland according to new research it tops the pool of the annual Bank of Scotland study which asks people to rate how happy or unhappy they are with their local communities mid Scotland and Fife 2nd the sofa Scotland came 3rd Glasgow was the unhappiest place to live and Scotland people said nature. Drawing sense of community were key factors in making them so happy in the Highlands and Islands so why are we all living there only to eat 52295 W E 2215 if you want to text as this morning are you happy we're you live what nice you happy where you are what do you need for a happy life when have you been happiest in your life easy to 295 to text does or wait a week 59295 to blue to give us a call boy on Facebook the Highlands that a good place to live especially this time of year 20 hours of daylight never truly gets dark people are generally easygoing laid back and walked in the street and say hello to everyone off and get conversation going best scenery in the world the only downside to the winter lack of public transport and often but what attitudes towards change she was says I might not kiddie and have lived in or me for were 40 years I love it given Facebook I'm from the Isle of Mull but live in an Edinburgh I had a great childhood growing up into a bit more to my family still live there it's a simple rural lifestyle that steady CIF and has a real community and human who's in me on this morning the Highlands are happy and we may be plagued by the mid G.'s but don't forget that in the year plagued by the we G.'s or you watch it eat 2215 to Tex does or we to eat 59295 W. Are you happy where you live let's speak to Angela Johnson 1st on this this morning Angela is a mum of Alexander to get those as well and she's moved Angela Good morning Good God And where are you living now Angela I left the store to see which is often mainland our nation it's a small island 7 miles but for a while and got but 300 not people that said let's write how long we'd been there ever we me and my husband and I love Again we live just to fly or just our list Barnett she's nearly 60 I was you like of it why are you happy there Angela why we happy as I think you covered a lot. Say in the long D. That we can end up in Greenfield seascapes and the community safety and the school and basically our children have the equivalent of a private education for free and it goes on and on the space that we like less than with a must as big families will only go for each other and the safety the safety there's no crime to speak of so you weren't surprised by the findings of this this would be anything that you miss the base that you like it I mean. The irony is that the child support but what we late was to get another car and then traveling around the country we left right in the middle of the set and we actually miss we can just jump in a car and go to hell loose in the and good tennis places the lake where we left we have to get on a boat and travel 2 hours or again a small plane and get them inland or and then go to the mainland Scotland which gets expensive so we don't just do it the whole time and the city has been able to tie things to the end and then not having to or didn't we have that things that you have you have 5 minutes from a beach don't you absolutely I mean we've got told the children jump in the car 5 minutes the beach 5 minutes there's a new making of all the ticket and they've got friends that left a stone that will do that on a play date yesterday just go over to the house play the quote side jump on the trampoline you know but it anybody's going to go in take them or they're going to get run over by the sheer luck charm sport and they can see that the safety's fantastic. Yeah that they're just happy free that pollution there's no pollution to speak of and to us that I guess there's always compromises to be made and you know . Need be one of the compromises you have to pending what you do for a living but you might have to make a compromise in your case the if you want to live somewhere that you like but I guess Meeks you happy isn't it that's what we're talking about Bob say yes we're very lucky release but my and my family have their local show and school bus and everything so we moved up to 10 century work with them and takeovers in that attire but yes and it's a limited availability for for work so there's education fishin time and that kind of thing as Betty is limited and obviously the money side is taken back covered with them but then it's a simpler we have life so you don't need the same money that you make and settees still can't buy happiness can you this is a Exactly exactly Alexis I'm Lisa Banks and family so that only are higher than we're very aware that if we did work and. Made big money we would probably be send in traffic you spin our children to childcare which will then happen to pay for Juno So you've got to weigh up doing it how you knew you could be when there with your you knew the wind to the Small Young Jr My hands are shaking in the wind tell me what you can see see what you can see I can see miles and miles of green field I can see the sea I can see all the time I should be no workin in the fields to see cows see see our guide then the green and lots of blue sky will do is a wee bit over cus this mornin that says typical weather here it can be very sunny one minute and overcast the next I'm taking you where that ice blue sky honestly you get that S.S. 2nd that isn't that to get that close but yet that is please guys I promise this promise for the rest of the daylight from way we should have been the weather forecast always promise to start you know you use that you ARE YOU SAY YOU news again do you think or is this the way for you. I mean we started we had a party that's just for us I had a party to come up to a total I may be retired I was but I moved away I was young and I got supplied is that I can honestly say I was very happy here didn't you nobody can say for that. But Jim we're finding more and more people are moving up toward the more large families are coming for this lifestyle so maybe we would be silly to give up but in a very lucky position pioneers moving by I enjoy a pleasure to speak to you this morning and see you so happy can hear your voice. Every day today thank you that's Angela Johnson as she moved back with her family she's in Orkney there and she loves that she has a happy life are you happy for you all this morning and what do you think you need for a happy life way to eat 59295 W. e 2205 on the takes Brenda this morning I'm happy where I live I live in lock ins just a place turned raw which is just been holding the world skiffy championships is the home of the fantastic Oyster Festival there's the Stranraer our agricultural sure coming up we've got a hardworking community surrounded by beautiful countryside including the southern blue and way and what else could be I'm here says My mother was born and brought up on the Iowa votes of C. Moved to Glasgow Ellie fifty's and I mean Tita to she passed away given the opportunity to return in our widowed years she said nor She loved going but the whole of the Xetra but she said she'd feel isolated she enjoyed the options that the city gave each to 295 Are you happy where you live or Eat Eat 592952 blue if you want to give us a call this morning let's speak to Mario in Robertson next on this this morning Mario a morning. I do well and morning morning you're in Shetland aren't you Yeah well I shan't I'm writing you just in Glasgow if I was right in the opposite so yeah you know you. We had the best of both worlds to be honest so what start with the Shetland part of that what do you love about life there. I think it is a it's spot on this is its nature in community cause I love the nature I love the freedom we have in it so even at 2 in the morning you can just go for the walk into the hills I mean if it's a nice moonlit night you can choose a source you like which is nice you know for a walk to the Hells and see the stars not in lights but on Glasgow You can't just go to in the morning into the park but Glasgow is where the walk is for you so that's why you're here that's nothing I was talking about compromise you have to me but that's the challenge isn't it but why we're not all living in the Highlands I know I know I know that's what I want to do comedy so I suppose I need we didn't have to get taking a student my way up but the demons when they are big enough I can like just live at home again you the path that passion to speak to this morning because this is sort of a this Bank of Scotland so be Glasgow came as the I'm the happiest place to live in Scotland which should make a challenge for a comedian who has come from the happiest place to try and earn a living making people laugh in the unhappiest place what do you think what's really funny is I always think of Glasgow as one of the friendliest cities I mean just things obviously that friendly but share. In chat and then when you're driving along what I love everyone waves each other and obviously that's not possible to here because I'll be too tiring but I actually have come to find Glasgow's incredibly friendly and there's lots amazing parks there so but the strain we make happy is not the same thing. I think you're right I mean I can just lay spread Should I try to make friends of all my neighbors she unlocked the much or so in their own bubble been Sharon that really is actually need to see what it is walk into a neighborhood watch them she needs help and that's a kind of support a safety net and makes you feel truly part of community and that's something really specially of a challenge so what do you see as the future for you I mean you love Shetland you love the need to up the the central belt is where you have to come for work how are you going to make this work for you moving forward what is the compromise going to be modeling Well I'm going to cheat and this is common going here to get the skills and experience necessary so that I can work in a job in entertainment whether it be writing or something like what kind of come home like you know you go far go away a lot of folks will come to the mainland to study for 4 years and then you form again yeah still kind of how I see it. Because Also you don't travel too much so I'd like to have a base in Chatham to be able to actually ask Well that would be fabulous and in this joined up technical world that we live in now that is there's no reason why you can't be living in Shetland or writing a comedy series for somebody or writing gags for somebody or whatever it is that that's true we just need to get that there when it may be what happy because the Internet is so god and check out each other but we could use some balance and then you see where you want to read that right Mario and I'm going to be typically through but thanks very much indeed the acclaim for the moment if you live in Glasgow and you are unhappy because they've said Glasgow is the unhappiest place to live in Scotland have not managed to find anyone who lives in Glasgow and is unhappy with the place this morning but if that is you pick up the phone to eat 59295 W. Or text as 8205 is Friday morning is coming up to 120 this is B.B.C. 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Radio Scotland with the phone and this Friday morning the Highlands and Islands happiest place to live in the whole of Scotland with Glasgow the unhappiest according to a new poll the annual Bank of Scotland survey asked Scott Scots How are you happy or unhappy they are in their local communities people in the Highlands and Islands said they were very happy especially because the nature and a strong sense of community up. So why aren't we all the thing in the Highlands and Islands and are you happy where you live eat to 205 to text this morning else says Highlands and Islands wonderful but the happiest place in the world is Glasgow saw the another one live in the Highlands. It's a slower quality of life slower pace of life with good quality of life with all the noise and rush of the war world let's plea it's these that we and Philip says happy enough but it's awful when it comes to whole of the flight hours to drive for decent flights wherever you Anscar in Scotland are you happy where you are and what do you need do you think for a happy wife when you've been happiest maybe and where where you seem to 205 to text as Or we to eat 59295 W. To give us a call Gabby's to not even Inverness this morning morning Gary good morning morning . In the Highlands and Islands on taken that you are happy but me a serene by some people see I've actually got the best job in the entire world and I want for the University of the Highlands and Islands and my job is to go out and travel the entire area from Paris not they all the islands the whole place I'm actually talking a lot about what the investor fairly say owns can do so I can carry 7 years I've done this job is absolutely the best place in the model to live and you have the most beautiful campus I was there a few months back with a place it is of Inverness and that's only when if I mean we've got 14 counties across the whole of the Highlands and Islands and that's one of the beauties of it you know you talked about connectivity and your previous caller Jane you can you can walk any photographs one of the beauties of what we do people can actually be sitting at home and study with the University of Iowa and it was but the really interesting thing is that what we are now getting is students from all over the world coming to study here they want to come because of the special issues we've developed she acknowledges in golf and adventure to some and. A lot of them I see them stealing big and they actually contribute to that and economy so not only is there some part of the people in the Highlands and Islands they really love and want to stay and some pre-season but the base the base kept secret but when people come here they want to steal in Israel which is a real boost for the economy because of course over the last 50 years one of the issues was that the home sales population is declining and I've been divorced and even the young people here are saying no they want to steal and that's what we had he attacks to do to help them facilitate All right Mr Happy. To don't change when the cost of housing. A big issue for both our students to address and for people in general that it's our lack of affordable housing over to be fear both think the government and the local authorities tackling that but it's a long way off and him and the other one is you know a new surprise connectivity in terms of broadband in the Internet but nowhere near the connectivity the can get in the city centers in Glasgow out. But we're working towards it and it's something that we want to contribute to but these are the downsides you know when you take these a small Don't say it's compared to the you know the quality of life to clean the but only in place to bring up a family and also the increased connectivity that will get no seat at the airports to really connect the information that you can get to Schiphol you can get to get what you can get used to in a daily basis and out to the rest of the world they nicely these are these are my you know when it can print it compares to all the benefits so our question this morning why don't we all living in the Highlands and Islands is the happiest place on so a lot of people will be giving is because of my job I can do my job in the you know in silence but as technology moves forward and hopefully Cornett to the T. Does as well but mean or be an excuse any more connected when you do it that's one of the things that people discover that you know that once going to improve as you say then you can do a lot of business across the planet and I actually when she said when she was chair of the body or something T.V.'s to walk in with the university I worked with another company we had on a business here that was in my new facts in business and we exported all over the world and once you accept that yes we are maybe slightly into the top northwest corner of. You know but when she when she look at the logistics and how to get over that you can very successfully run best as he so files and there are some fabulous passages and some fabulous jokes the interesting thing is that you know I by predation am in a country chartered accountant and you know we deal a lot with people in finance and it used to be people would be under teaching in banks actually you know in the B. St from C. You know maybe a London or Glasgow again but it's you know you know it's and if you want to get your job your ability have to go to information 2 years and it's like a hole in your new but after 2 years of the saying I'm sorry I'm in here on the moon because my family love it and my wife's a really good job and it could be the other way around you know the husband got a fantastic job and we've we've found this place is called Utopia and to be honest when one of my big fears I said that a school in the water when the full as yet and I still want to move in stay with me stay with me as I want to introduce you we're going to come down in the joy in the news in Glasgow this morning morning join us in line school in the morning OK You're listening to data Dotty is in Inverness the top of the Highlands he loves the happiest place in Scotland the Highlands where you see. Him by the money and with job. I'm large and I am unsure how someone can challenge from any. Sense and in that time in. 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There Anyone very clannish that definitely didn't we still that there was Dottie What do you think survived nothing to do in the Highlands I mean absolutely there's an element of that and one of the things I mean I myself I grew up in OK I went to Glasgow for 7 years and then came back early and went in but mace and it's something that I think is clearly for people to go and find especially people who are younger for life and for us join us just said you know the big club sort of loves you in the Highlands but but it's improving and also with the Internet the connectivity the sailfish going in terms of job she actually went to one of the issues we've got and I was unable just as it's pretty much full employment in that a lot of job school and sold sure this stuff is a funny funny sort of thought that people have or she go with it you might know Guy job actually that I play jokes for people in the homes and homes when officials estimate you know it will Pete it may be that a people are in that a village and they've got a bit of trouble to do but and an overall economic transaction is probably a little bit in shift and there will be a winner or C.C. After 40 years ago that we have now but for him to commit on I love classical shuttles it was quite a lot for a walk I think last it's a fantastic city and you know we'd always bought for Israel but just 2 different places with 2 different sets of of things that go in the favor and I suppose if you had it in Glasgow I mean you'll know the city initiate if you're commuting glass or you're sitting in the canteen bridge you know you said the old single gauche way about here and of course Russia we do every so often we go to collage groups at the concentration of. That's why we actually just put the case in but you know it's not nearly well I didn't bother when I'm sitting in the Kingston Bridge Meanwhile I'm yours now because I forgot to turn over John grocery to see a lot of others but Gary thank you so much for your side this morning join in Glasgow as well Joan is happy in Glasgow happier in Glasgow than he was in the Highlands tell us it's not the you can't Stuart report and columnist with the head and evening Titans you're a Glasgow woman through and through Could you not you well I am but I am an adopted classical person I grew up in a cherry I grew up in Sydney and then moved Glasgow 8 years ago and so far I love it and pay very happy here you surprised to find it's the unhappiest place in Scotland I really want to know will he be honest I think if you're unhappy in Glasgow then you're going to be unhappy anywhere I mean it's such a great city and one of the things I like about it is that it's not so big that you feel anonymous but it's big enough that you don't feel claustrophobic or you don't feel that your privacy is being invaded and I think you know there's been no talk of community this morning and I think Glasgow has a great sense of community and it's booking thing into so many little Anya's that he get to know your neighbors and you get to know he's working in the local shop and you know we've talked today face became connectivity and one of the things that are really interesting is that there's loads of local face sticker still you know you see people getting on those and asking if anyone's got a ladder they can vote or if anyone can watch their dog for the day and I'm totally dispute the notion that makes no sense a community in the city would you see needs for a happy life. For me I mean we listen to a couple of people this morning you know Angela she's living off court that I go for a week's holiday. You know she's my friend she's got children I think here young and you're single that wouldn't be an ideal life so I think how can a spare me is having huge parks on the doorstep so that you can get by and you can have 2 fresh air and you can have a leech or but also having a space travel doorstep cinema cakes question knowing who your Lakers are. A guy who has all of that Katrina thanks for your time this month Katrina to your reporter and columnist at The Herald and evening times standing up for Glasgow whatever you are this morning are you happy where you live eat 2295 to text as or to eat 592952 blue to give us a call just after 130. In trouble comes from to resist Thanks Steven Dyson Aberdeen ques on Riverview drive in both directions between Victoria Street roundabout and a person can also to to you know there are delays from Milton heading down to. And further delays approaching Milton on the. Bond from Troll 3 and also the 8 to 6 by now that a road works here and in the vicinity so it's pretty settled up on this to. 85 feel much inclined for the old partially blocked there was a falling tree here I think they're still trying to clean it traffic managing to get past albeit very slowly and Ed but I would work 6 week Miller Crawford's causing delays on all approaches That's B.B.C. Reduce Scotland travel thank you very much 931 on a Friday morning B.B.C. Radio Scotland time for the 1st installment of this. My. Last week was a disaster it was a shambles you've got to stay away so we've made it much harder this week who are you our weekly chance for you to guess. Scottish personality might know the name you might know the face but do you know the voice as well for stop a short clip it's a very short put this week have a listen to a. Revenge is sweet Let's hear it again too late now no idea have you or have you eaten 295 if you know you that is we'll play you more clues throughout the program this morning also to come with me this morning yeah don't have much else to say to a question I ask you somebody who presumably wants to go on from here from the US and win a Grand Slam one night is it not something you need please and catch and eyes me I wouldn't you know you I in the way you're asking it in the way asking a question you haven't quite disrespectful in your patch and I sing me hash tag awkward that was the exchange between British number one John a contact and a journalist at Wimbledon this week should he have worked on his emotional intelligence What is that we'll find out later and is ever what struggling through a challenging boot when you're lying by the Pew site or on the beach this summer with a read We'll hear more about the importance of actually enjoying books and maybe just giving up on those that you find it hard or not fun but for now back to this on the phone and. This side of the Highlands and Islands voted the happiest place to live in Scotland according to the Bank of Scotland annual survey on the subject local people there said Nature strong sense of community were key factors in making them so happy mid Scotland and Fife came 2nd in the pool the south of Scotland 3rd Glasgow bought some of the pool unhappiest place to live in Scotland are you happy where you live is the question this morning easy to 295 to text as Mark says Stephen I live in the capital of the Highlands and Islands in Venice I can honestly say IP was so happy and fortunate to be can be and be. Useful countries that in 5 minutes yet we have everything the big cities have in miniature we can go anywhere else Katrina says we love where we live on the outskirts of the Big enough to plenty of facilities fantastic restaurants not to these really enough to the beach and countryside and their doorstep What more could we want or need and you and I grew up between ages 6 and 10 and there was most fantastic incredible freedom and friends as well are you happy we're you live foods and what makes you happy in life way to eat 592952 blue eat 2 to 15 to Texas Jackie next this morning morning Jackie you can go to morning morning where are you and I were right in line driving how she loves guys I'm here pressing on drug I'm being driven out of Glasgow OK discomfort is taking you outs of Glasgow is not the direction you want to be heading and you're passing there's no I in Glasgow I love Glasgow I have always loved Glasgow but just recently as God showed it pressing to live there the streets are filled the they don't seem to be cleaned any more the heart does Grace they totally neglected when you go into the residential areas the garage is about on my high they've stopped cutting the grass and everybody everywhere we. Go to the shops and there's trash everywhere I find it depressing and I think it probably affects many people when they look around you see I'm beautiful city has suffered from so much neglect officially it's never been as bad as it is just not is it bad enough to me think about moving Jackie. You know it's my home I love to hear what I like to do just keep fighting to get things done we're all paying our country at times but they're not doing anything to the money they don't hold absolutely atrocious when you compare even other reviews I was certain Clarkston reality was sleepy beautiful love it planters and flowers I was in Mary Hail Mary this lovely sort of flowers and the crossroads and things but somehow the Glasgow center of Glasgow in the events of the country was supposed to be maintained just looking up this very subject let me be your psychologist for this morning Jackie got up on the couch you know why don't relax in the back of the come maybe and let me ask you what do you look what makes you happy and light because this is the surroundings and not me can you happy why do you move from my personal surroundings are fine it's just when I go into the city I've got you. Know I've got control of I'm very happy with that is seeing a once beautiful city. Should be free to use to. You know graffiti . People begging in the street that should not be allowed you've got people should leaping on to get the healing months umbrella it's just so sad to see it like that and I think visitors come here for on a horse to visit church think. You load and clear Jackie this morning where you're off to today. We're going over to corruption actually that's a beautiful place at any time in the US he said you have agreed to the Jackie keep listen to B.B.C. Radio Scotland thank you for your time 82 to 95 to text this morning Linda I live in Glasgow I'm very happy I can see the camp SEALs we have dear I saw amazing time so flies in the canal we have a great part for you museums the people are 2nd to none Linda she says she's one very happy Glaswegian wherever you are this morning how do you feel about where you read them what makes you happy eat 2295 to text as this morning or wait to eat 59295 double you might speak to Andrew next this morning he's in the West and I was a happy place according to some of the that we're talking about this morning the Highlands and Islands the happiest place in the whole of Scotland morning Andrew good morning how are you a morning I am fighting are you happy Absolutely absolutely I missed 11 years ago when did you move from a different way back to lower level allegedly so i will OK I am or made you move Why did you move well to be honest what he had what for those boys for many years and I thought of how tired I would look for somewhere near the sea and at Foothill have got their daily for you to imagine is a lot and I just have to be mentally it was a place to stay in a cult parish and I decided to go for and what's the difference been in your life since you moved and I think you could see actually travelling the speed being in London about to walk very very way back people did. You've got actual community going here you know do you feel bad to me mention just how do you feel back to living there absolutely absolutely nothing I mean just to get a feel for not 1000000000 and how much problem but at all times I mean to which a couple of big businesses exactly same in Claybanks but the same shift that such an atmosphere that I was telling you're going to Lily had already been I was moving in that house up here my family had and I just have to say to get the last of it and I'll find a basket lining the doorstep full of eggs duck eggs chicken eggs 3 other yards today and then he said meet me perfect from a neighbor who lives in a cottage next to me you know and if you see what you happy stay in woman who can do good for me in things you know the capsule is entirely different way of life you know you move there and you to the happiest place to live in Scotland from the unhappiest according to the so the glass when you go back to Glasgow What's the contrast for you heard you feel well after us I would never call Glasgow the happy city a late level very fun to Glasgow in Glasgow people why do you think now you whenever they have an appetite for the. First thing I see in a way for this look at all the people you know look all the people not get you know but you know My Space and back too if you know you never notice that before did you I didn't really know is that before I really didn't have a for just about national and you know the window this morning can you see a sight from where you are yes Sessoms actually right next to the window pane your picture what you're seeing right now well well it's I don't have to travel to be challenged on the beach and I will keep my back to it here in the waist or washing line on the beach island in the seas 20 male Plextor 20 or so ticks and 20 feet from my back to it and there's no rain man and I'm loving every potential here basically in a free high seas and. Well the relation is I think everybody's got even everybody else's faces but only one block which is not very often however the midges under Well I guess because I see next to the water I don't really get a bad problem in images at all particular not constant but is your bag your sofa greaseball not saying so I really do believe so thanks so much for your call this morning nice to speak to you this morning and who moved to the Western house from quite bank and you don't use where you can be happy or easy to 295 to text as we to eat 59295 double who. Will do more takes a 2nd but let's be to Frederica Roberts next this morning she's an expense and happiness she is the happiness speaker Frederica morning. Good morning Steve in the morning you've been really patient thank you for hanging on this when we've had so many calls about this and I think help from our Julie Tell me 1st of all we're do you have and why did you choose to live there. And I live in South Yorkshire in a small town called on Custer I chose Well it was practicalities really at the time my my husband's got a job in. Well about 40 miles away from here and I was working in Leeds at the time and we kind of looked at a map and one was in the middle. And that's where we ended up living so but we've been living in this place now for well over 2 decades so it's you know we're very well settled here. And it's been really interesting listening to all the different viewpoints of all the callers because a lot of things have come out of that you know community was really strong and was mentioned by a lot of people careers and jobs and what takes you in and you know as I say I live here because jobs kind of this has to take us to move to a particular area but it's also something that was really interesting that Katrina of the journalist mentioned that she said you know if you're unhappy in Glasgow you'll be unhappy anywhere and I think there is a lot to not in terms of you know they're just surroundings a part of it and I think if you look anywhere in the world there is cut quite a lot of correlation between urban and rural life and people generally being happier in the countryside but there is also a lot about what we can do in terms of our own happiness and how we can influence stopped and that sense of community and connectedness is something that we can drive for any wet weather in the countryside or in the city there is a thread through the survey Frederica's you see so the homes violence top the pool of the happiest 2nd is mid Scotland and Fife largely router was where on the site to Scotland very rural is not so dominated by these ruins the as is it need trees need to. The key to this nature is definitely part of it there have been a number of studies into happiness and well being looking at the impact of nature and being out with nature in terms of how that affect the happiness and there is certainly something in that and I think if you look at a lot of sort of recent urban developments happening all over the world you know that there is something that where people trying to put parks nature in places where there aren't any because that in contributes to happiness and if you listen to some of the callers the DO live in Glasgow that you spoke to you know I think every single one of them Hawks So definitely there is an element there of nature contributing to happiness and obviously if you're surrounded by it that's going to have an impact because you're right that even though I live on the outskirts of town you know I look at the back of the residential estate that I live on and I'm right in the back of a fairly large residential estate and all I have behind me is fields and I find it wonderful to stand in my daughter's bedroom sometimes just looking out and just seeing fields and knowing that actually I don't have to go very far to go for a walk in nature and that really does help someone else as well young people often gravity toward cities Fredericka over sixty's are the happiest age group in this the so is there a correlation between not as well but it really is we need Hobbs an older population and the pain to be happy a people want to be a wildly happier. There's a couple of elements less so there's whether you're happier in a city or in a rural area depending on your stage of life and whether your happier when you're older full stop so if I take the 2 separately I think yes it's something that again I think Katrina mentioned that you know if you are young and you want the nightlife and all of that and I think Joe mentioned nightlife in Glasgow as well and then coalesce So if if you are at a certain stage in life where you draw a lot of your energy and your elements are. Fun and happiness out of being with other people but in the kind of theaters parties nightlife and all of that then you're going to be happier in a city where it's perhaps later on in life when either you're retired or even when you're raising a young family your priorities are different and you might well be happier in the countryside whereas Angelo saying you know you kids can safely play outside except for A and as Andrew was saying you know it's a great place to to retire and it's right by the sea and you can just look out and it's there so there is the element of different stages of life we have different priorities and then yes again in terms of are we happier when we're older that has been quite a bit of research or not and they seem the older people quite often are happier. And that is probably because as we get older we have more life experience and I think one of the things that is such a big contributor to happiness for example is gratitude and that's basically kind of counting your blessings appreciating what you have rather than mulling over what you don't have and I think the older you get the more naturally you tend to do that because you have a bigger and wider perspective on life and when things aren't going to well you tend to have maybe a bigger view over the course of your life and you can see that that's just a moment in your life rather than everything about your life that's making you unhappy so I think in terms of a huge We are more inclined to being happy Erikson older age but the flipside of that is that sometimes Long Loneliness can be a big problem for older people so again maybe living in the Highlands and Islands where there is that strong sense of community that mitigates the issue of loneliness whereas it might be easier for an older person to perhaps be lonely in a city they weren't out one was doing Frederico on that says Well money cash how does that play into all of this is where would you need to be happy. It's it's an interesting thing that the curve and the relationship between money and happiness over all the research seems to suggest that we can be the. We're happy if we don't have enough money to live worrying about paying the mortgage or the rent and buying food is not going to make us very happy but once we've got tops once we've got enough to live off then actually more money doesn't make a small happy it's really about the relationships the connectedness with other people and the sense of meaning and purpose and goal in one study that's fascinating if if you know your listeners want to look up a chuckle drop it wold rigor D.'s I think the 3rd generation of researchers in the it's been a fascinating topic talk on this on the on the study that's been going on for nearly 80 years now in the US and they studied initially about just under $800.00 men and now 2000 of grandchildren of those men and they've looked at what makes them happy and the biggest contributor to happiness is actually being. The quality of relationships and not how many people we're connected to but the quality of those relationships and what they actually found is that because they've been doing this city for such a long time they've been able to do that over people's lifetimes and actually people are happier have longer lives and better health throughout their lives as well so it's quite important so that sense of connectedness is key whether you're in in the rural area or whether you're in a city interesting Fredricka thanks so much for your time this morning Frederica Roberts the happiness speaker expect on happiness this morning on the take Scott in the road of all of them brought out the best we believe in the world's great community spirit everybody helps each other a loser walks beautiful beaches more and more jobs becoming available not like cities where people are glued to their phones and are not very sociable The only bad part is the amount of incomers coming north from south of the border who try and dictate to us how we should run our village it won't work they'll get higher speed movie or be part of everything help our door to move here and try to tell us how to run our village. Scott in the happy village of broad of the it's 105950 it's Friday morning as B.B.C. Radio Scotland previously on breaking the news with the day's Clark breaks apart in any piece trying to box as the European Parliament and all the folks standing with a bat at the back roads so no one else can see them doing it it's like the same when you make the the 90 bands at school and I call that going to pay well I'm going to keep my eyes open no one's going to see you do that you. Can really come from the mean streets going I subscribe to the podcast on B.B.C. Signs and listen today from 130 for the next episode the best radio show at the Scottish comedy awards breaking the knees from B.B.C. Radio Scotland $950.00 Friday morning B.B.C. 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On the phone and this morning the Highlands and Islands the happiest place to live in the whole of Scotland Glasgow the unhappiest according to a new poll the annual Bank of Scotland happiness survey Ascot's how unhappy or happy they are with their local communities people in the Highlands and Islands said what made them happy was nature and a strong sense of community so on the phone and this morning we're asking are you happy where you live and what makes you happy to 295 to text as this morning this one is friend fish on the edge of Glasgow makes me unhappy as it lacks connected green space and walks despite being on the age of the country Saeed's another one are the Highlands resident so happy because so many of them are rich. Tired retired from a 6 generally who wouldn't be glad of the ski. Lady Penelope says God's country on this is what do you think we're US Are you happy does it meet you happy and what is it that needs you happy about living in the setting please a 2 to 15 to text week to week 59295 to blue to call would be to Ramos be to Stella But 1st we speak to G. News in Glasgow this morning morning Jeanne good morning morning right there Glasgow is supposed to be the unhappiest place in Scotland What do you say Jean Well I'm settling I'm happy with Glasgow I have lived in Glasgow all my life and I just did a product of Glasgow it was a beautiful city it was kept. They could stand and there was a less me now for I see is that a little investment pre-placed just like people stylists I let go so badly that in fact I don't know what's going to happen to the people status that they're going to be able to refurbish it or you know what I'm not very happy about the Egyptian build the in Union Street which has had scaffolding up to it on for years absolutely maybe 1520 years it had scaffolding now I think it surely must be within the kind social remit to instruct the building to be either demolished or make the people who own it refurbish space they can't that's an absolute eyesore but you can go from Central Station as a lead to P.V. Astri said The streets are mucky So when I ask him what makes people happy or unhappy about bread they live for you the surroundings are really important gene what you see when you're in a bite but what you see if you see a list in the street you can see you're happy here discussed your disgusting and the lack of investment in the packs we were speaking to to part a workers who told us that they had been a in the winter. They have to go on the bench if. You know what I mean to beneath collections you know. Their numbers had been to please teach them I don't know see from 20 days to 30 something but it was really do they kill us have you ever lived anywhere else Gene you haven't met would you consider is it bad enough to meet you think about living somewhere else well I have to tell him I did like the lady who was on previously talking about Glasgow I live in the outskirts of Glasgow not very fortunate I have a beautiful outlook. 15 just now looking at nothing but trees and that sort of 2 square don't squiggles yesterday jumping through tree to tree so I definitely have to be clear I still have that and I have very good leaders I have excellent the push excellent neighbors a cricket and I live in a flat and I couldn't have picked up the papers that when I lived in the house not preach I lived in for 35 years the neighbors were not as like I don't need to be as nice to me happiness likes to be well spent like so perhaps it's people. Sense of community and all that Jeanne thanks so much for your call this morning wait to eat 59295 W. Or eat 2 to 15 to text as this morning what makes you happy or unhappy we are you led Denis says Steve not had many very happy all these mile in silence notably and hottest but being a Tona I'm used to city facilities and communities happy to live in a Scottish city despite some of the drawbacks Mrs Harris we happily live in Chapel hole a village in North Lanarkshire quiet but lively Greek community Greek people 20 minutes to Glasgow 45 dead and it is pear thick even not all wonderful in the Highlands and Islands the placement of Gallic language and culture by television and uninterested incomers coupled with young people having to leave for jobs who else was killed off many E.D.'s and many more besides all 22 more of those in the next few minutes but let's speak to Stella next this morning she's in done the morning Stella good ally lane or you I am fighting are you happy. Yes I am Tell me why well and here and live in Charleston and the state said Andy and then move here 62 years ago as a 20 year old with my husband and a young son and we came from a not take a got it whether you call it when you were you to the Basically you could law to do it washing dishes put the fire from the bed or the city suit the comet lovelight on a new state. Corns thought it was a public salute leave behind a school on the site a dead shot across the road there was a huge field of this New Minas Hell you could look me over to Riverside. 20 minutes at a minute's walk from the village a lot on the other really 15 minutes in the country and I was out field across the road from me as a beautiful park and. Kept looking at not only trees and lovely displaying right down. To the Kingsley as a host of daffodils as lovely to see that I moved here and my husband had a child I didn't know what the kids very young vengefully got until this well so we've lived overnights here 20 years tenement just up the road from there I. Have a lovely the cottage here and the children are all splendid I know they just had to move the cause of what the leave because of the what because well what because here is a display and a street take mags and rock and go on and on and what makes you happy still is the community Well I mean. I sense that a tired 20 years of in a community activist and chairperson of the 10 assistants association we try to keep the place relay that to him complains that people have complained so that we push the button lots of places and sick ages so that makes me happy. And that husband is his to take and on this lazy good fight and I he's happy he's a really I know it legally take his favorite show up on Leno mention it I said to Tyson let you know we are so happy and. The headlights changed and the only reason I'd want to leave just suddenly that you could see and he had to change as well I agreed and he'd be happy with you still like a new day in your voice thank you very much each to 205 To takes those joy Hi Steve my husband I moved from a fly in the West End of Glasgow to the rulers because of cock until 2 years ago we love both places we don't miss the traffic noise and law school but we do you miss being able to walk to Byers rude one final call and this is Ron in East Kilbride this morning Glasgow's been having a bit of a hard time of on the phone in this morning Ron wants to stand up for Glasgow don't you're on good info and even. Though I'm English private I'm into my eighty's No I came up in 55 and I always remember going home to see my mother before I moved up here I was only 20 and she said to me own no no no Glasgow reserve slushes and everything so I didn't know what to expect but I lived in Cote bridge I worked in the city I'd travel by bus not time for a couple years before I got a car what the license trade and do you know all these things that were said about guys go I don't know whether I was just lucky but all the people that I met If I had to stop and asked direction somebody times around at that time it was great you know and I travel by bus the only thing on a Saturday night you may get a cradle I'd sing in football songs or whatever but that didn't bother me but apart from that Roy you happy yes I'm 84 No and I moved to the school bright. 10 years ago to be close to my family because my wife has really helped to a cop out it's family that made you happy that's where all the so D.C. 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Radio Scotland on a Friday morning with me Stephen Jordan thank you very much indeed for your company wherever you are a very small and if you're in the Highlands and Islands we were talking about you because it's been voted the happiest place to live in Scotland so on the phone and be asked Why are we all living there at the borders MY of the answer on the tech She says awful place to live i want is always complaining about income or taking jobs.