Purpose – This paper aims to examine the context of the emergence of Places Rated Almanacs (PRA), their success as a source of place‐based knowledge, and their limitations as predictors of patterns of migration. The paper addresses whether, as an entrepreneurial product created in the spaces...

The recent revival of interest in the concept of quality of life by academics in both the social and medical sciences and amongst politicians has focused attention on the continuing debate about the definition, measurement and utilisation of quality of life. In particular, the need amongst...