An article in 'The Telegraph' today was entitled :
Welcome to the village of long-life
Hinton St George, a village in Somerset, has been named as the best place for a long retirement with men living past 88 years old.
Appaently the retired men outside the village shop can expect to live a full four years longer than those at the memorial service in Bootle, Merseyside, which ranked bottom in a survey of life expectancy.
The study of 1.5 million pension records has shown that men retiring at 65 in Hinton St George were likely to live, on average, to 88.7 years and those in Bootle to 84.9 years,
Hinton St George has a population of just 400 and is partly protected by a Conservation Area. It has a sub-postmaster called Keith Hurse who has said :
"The strange thing is, about 80% of the people here come from the south east of England. Many of the retired are former barristers, school teachers and former members of the clergy. It is a lovely place to live, there is a society for everything. A group of us here took over the village shop and Post Office last July. It is a very busy community but there is not the stress and pollution here – it is a very stress-free environment."
Hinton St George has a population of just 400 and is partly protected by a Conservation Area. It has a sub-postmaster called Keith Hurse who has said :
"The strange thing is, about 80% of the people here come from the south east of England. Many of the retired are former barristers, school teachers and former members of the clergy. It is a lovely place to live, there is a society for everything. A group of us here took over the village shop and Post Office last July. It is a very busy community but there is not the stress and pollution here – it is a very stress-free environment."
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Bootle has a population of 77,640 with an economy centred around the docks and their associated industries which declined in importance in the 1960s and 1970s, with the town suffering from high unemployment and a declining population. Britain is still a country where how long old men live depends on what they did in life and where they live before death. One 80 year old Hinton resident : 
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