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"A Siena Research Institute poll is out on how New Yorkers feel about living in the state.
In the poll, 70% of people say they are happy they live here, while 30% say they wish they lived somewhere else.
The state gets high grades for education, health care, leisure and a chance to be successful. However, it gets low marks for affordability, retirement and feeling safe from crime."
From the original poll site: "This Siena College Poll was conducted March 6 – March 9, 2023 by random telephone calls to 406 New York adults via landline and cell phones and 398 responses drawn from a proprietary online panel of New Yorkers. Respondent sampling via phone was initiated by asking for the youngest person in the household. The overall results has an overall margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points including the design effects resulting from weighting. Telephone sampling was conducted via a stratified dual frame probability sample of landline (from ASDE Survey Sampler) and cell phone (from Dynata) telephone numbers from within New York State weighted to reflect known population patterns. Data from the telephone and web samples were blended and statistically adjusted by age, race/ethnicity, gender and party to ensure representativeness. The Siena College Research Institute, directed by Donald Levy, Ph.D., conducts political, economic, social and cultural research primarily in NYS. SCRI, an independent, non-partisan research institute, subscribes to the American Association of Public Opinion Research Code of Professional Ethics and Practices. For more information or comments, please call Dr. Don Levy at 518-783-2901. Survey cross-tabulations and buying plans can be found at www.siena.edu/scri/cci."
As you might guess from my username, I love NY. Sometimes I read negative posts about the state here on city-data and feel a little bewildered. A lot of the hate seems to be based on politics, and then there's also hostility toward NYC which I don't fully understand. We are going there next week to see Sweeney Todd and I'm super excited!
That poll seems so discombobulated. How do you respond?. Also, too few people to sample. I do love it here, but how much of it because that's where I was born, have most family and friends, and love my personal home and location. I'm thinking I might do it different if I could start over.
For someone to step back and look at a spread sheet of all the different places to land in the country, without the emotional attachments, I would say almost no one would want to live in NYS, other than NYC, and that would just be for the financials.
It is really a remix of the same small sample data from the survey.
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