According to Daily Express - Travel, a Daily Express journalist described Cardiff as a city that lacks headline-grabbing tourist magnets but compensates with culture and atmospheric suburbs where visitors can live like locals. The journalist, who has lived in Cardiff for nearly 30 years, said they could not think of another city they would prefer to live in.
Cardiff is consistently ranked among the greenest cities in the UK and Europe. The city offers a six-mile walk from Cardiff Castle in the city centre to Castell Coch without leaving a park or nature reserve. Bute Park and Llandaff Fields together make up 2.3 miles of that walk, roughly the same length as Central Park in New York. Cefn Onn Park is a grade 2-listed historic park on the city's northern fringes. Forest Farm, on the banks of the Taff, contains woodland, scrub, hay meadow, ponds and marshland habitats, and still has sections of the historic former Glamorganshire Canal and the restored Melingriffith waterpump.
This has been my home city for nearly 30 years and I can't think of another I'd prefer to live in.
But what Cardiff lacks in headline-grabbing tourist magnets it makes up for in culture and pretty, atmospheric suburbs where you can live like a local regardless of where you're from.
It is also one of the greenest cities in the UK — and one of the most walkable.