Evening readers, so in case you didn’t know, Sheffield is officially the best city in the world (Awarded by me, sorry London, you can sit this one out). I’m going to jump straight into it so I don’t ruin the list, here we go:
- 1. Sheffield is the greenest city in the whole of Europe!
According to Wikipedia (linked) Sheffield has a whopping 2 million trees! Seriously that an awful lot of trees, it is almost 4 trees to every Sheffielder! You can’t walk down a street and not see a plant, shrub, tree or hedge. Many of the roads around the University of Sheffield’s campus is tree lined, they are some of the nicest roads to walk down. If that wasn’t enough Sheffield has a whopping total of 83 parks, with more on the way! On top of that Sheffield has 4 public gardens ranging from large Victorian ones to small ones from the 1770s, dedicated to the Hillsborough Disaster victims.
- 2. Sheffield has two of the best universities in the country
Sheffield has two fantastic universities, University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. Together they bring in over 50,000 students, which makes walking the streets in the city centre even more joyful as you can see all the students from home and abroad who have decided to make Sheffield there home and who are enjoying their time here.
- 3. Sheffield has some of the best leisure venues ever.
Home to 4 movie theatres (cinemas) (one the largest independent out of London), 3 theatres, a sprinkling of shopping centres and locations, great village pubs and restaurants, many sports centres, two football stadiums, a basketball team, ice hockey team, music stadium, rock climbing, go carting, skateboarding parks and indoor facilities, running tracks & bowling alleys. (If I’ve missed something please help me out in the comments). Sadly though we have just got our Ski Village closed and Don Valley Stadium (former training ground of Jessica Ennis, Sheffield born Olympic gold medallist). Add onto that our transport is slightly better than national average. If that hasn’t persuaded you alone I don’t know what will. But I have two more points to help my case.
- 4. Sheffield has some AMAZING hospitals!
With 5 or more hospitals and one of only 4 children’s hospitals not linked to a teaching hospital, Sheffield has some of the best healthcare facilities in the country. Our doctors, nurses and other medical staff are sure to look after you if ever you need any help!
- 5. We smile!
Here in Sheffield we are kind, community focused and smiley people. Now just like in any city we do have some angry people but on the whole we smile. If you smile at someone while you walk past them in the street 9/10 will smile back and if you were unsure of Sheffield before that then this should change your mind because why live in London where nobody smiles and nobody looks at you when you trip over, when you can live in Sheffield where we are VERY kind and we would flock in our tens to help anyone who needs it.
So, that is 5 simple reasons why you should visit, live or educate in Sheffield. In time all these things should be linked to a website but if not comment and I’ll try and get back to you.
Thanks for reading, Socialist No. 2 x
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