The results are through for the past 6 months searches, which have led people to the Hull Cityvistor site from Google’s search engine.

It came as no surprise that hotels and restaurants have topped the charts, which are common search terms to look for in a particular city anyway.

What did amuse us, however, was that fancy dress in Hull was the third most popular search term. Perhaps the people of Hull are bigger party animals than we thought? I would imagine university students help boost these results, but even if you’re not part of that clan, feel free to let us know of any regular fancy dress parties that you may be hosting…!

It’s official. We’ve all got to move out of Hull and head down South.

The Yorkshire press has reported widely the new Policy Exchange Think Tank findings about the state of living in the North;

“Cities across Northern England — including Leeds, Bradford and Hull — are “beyond revival” and residents should consider moving south.

The controversial report by Policy Exchange said the regeneration of many towns and cities in the north was doomed to fail and residents should consider relocation as a way to avoid becoming “trapped” in poorer areas.”

The whole report is bizarre and even one of the authors of the report has said it may seem “barmy”. Shall we all up sticks and move? I think not…

There is no doubt about it, Hull doesn’t have the best of reputations and has even been voted the worst place to live in recent years.

(Slightly better news last year though – we were second from bottom)

Schools in Hull constantly appear at the bottom of education league tables, Humberside police struggles to climb up the ranks and the national coverage of the horrific flooding of Hull won’t have exactly drawn in the tourists.

So is it true? Is Hull the worst place to live?

We have all heard the complaints (you’ll hear some in this blog), but I genuinely think we have one of the best cities in Yorkshire and is on the rise. We have an historic old town centre, beautiful buildings and old pubs in Hull, fantastic sporting facilities and an excellent University that really puts Hull on the map.

We have a new £160m St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, The Deep (which has already attracted over 2 million visitors), and what’s more, property that is cheap as chips – just as well with all that fish.

In our defence – unlike most cities – we don’t have the wealthier suburbs to prop up our results, which can partly explain our league table performance, and I also think the flooding showed just how resilient and community-minded our residents are.

So, with a £1.5million cash injection in the last five years, Hull has gone from strength to strength. It really gets unfair press when dubbed one of the worst places to visit, and try as you might, I doubt you’ll be able to persuade me otherwise.