It's allegedly one of the best places to live in England, according to 'a recent study'?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38351138

My block of flats (on Oxford's Woodstock Road, not exactly an impoverished area) bought our freeholds soon after it became possible a few years ago. Orwell got it right in Animal Farm: before long you realise you may be better off with a tyrant than in a failed state micro-democracy.