How often do you travel into/out of the city?

[SolarEclipse]

Let's find out based on where people live, whether you travel to the other side of the "invisible wall" or not...

[WNYresident]

We wrote a very cool survey type script which allows multiple choice and like 1 thru 10 survey questions. I asked once if people would like to submit question to generate a well thought out survey. No one bit.

Do we have enough people now coming through the site that would like to make a real question type survey?

Examples:

are you happy with Giambra?
1 = very unhappy 10 = happy as a pig in crap.

or

True/false...

etc

[SolarEclipse]

Couldn't hurt. The problem is most people don't know how to write GOOD survey questions. I build a fair amount of surveys in my job, which often requires rewriting questions so the choices are clear, distinct, and not leading. :)

[stevenco]

There isn't enough color out here in the suburbs. I see where the cardboard cutout theory comes from. We need more ethnic diversity out here. All my brothas and sistas are welcome. :)

[Riven37]

I live in the suburbs and I stay out of the City. Never want to go there again. Its dangerous, dirty, small, old, and its the pits ! I grow up there, worked there, got shot at there, drank there, had good times there, had very bad times there, fished there, went to school there, and in the end I ran from three.


Sorry, how I feel.

[300miles]

Originally posted by SolarEclipse
Couldn't hurt. The problem is most people don't know how to write GOOD survey questions.

An example of an improvement to the survey would be to add a selection for "never" instead of lumping them in with "once a month"


- People who never go into the city may hate everything about the city.

- People who go less than once a month may still love the city and actually spend a lot of money there since they only go every couple months.

Then you could dig deeper into people who 'never' go into the city. Some may hate the city, others may just not have the time or means to go, or maybe don't know where anything is.

Then again I doubt the poster really cares about the data *that* much to spend an hour formulating a casual survey.... Unless it's stevenco... i know he spent a lot of time on his famous "Annoying" poll. :D

[stevenco]

I'll take that as an acceptance of your nomination. We have our tenth volunteer and the stage is set

[SolarEclipse]

Originally posted by 300miles
An example of an improvement to the survey would be to add a selection for "never" instead of lumping them in with "once a month"


Not necessarily an improvement. It all depends on what you're looking for out of the data. Actually, I'm more lumping the people who go in less than once a month with the nevers instead of the other way around. Even people that hate the city may be "forced" to go there from time to time, e.g. a real estate closing.



Then again I doubt the poster really cares about the data *that* much to spend an hour formulating a casual survey....

Also true. ;)

[Michele J]

I live in the city and try to shop in the city as much as possible but sometimes I have to shop in the burbs to find something I need

[Shasta13]

I live in the suburbs. I go into the city once a month or so, some months more, some not at all, so I guess it averages out. Not for any particular reason, other than most of my business and errands don't take me there. I go to Sabres games, the zoo, Central Terminal functions when I can. I don't purposely avoid the city though.

[citymouse]

I live in the city. I am fifty three and have always lived in the city. Never lived more than a mile from where I was born. Wouldn't want to. I go to the suburbs (two blocks away) to shop for groceries. Tops and Wegmans are across the street from each other and they are no different then the ones in the city.
Other than that I have little use for the suburbs except to visit relatives who have cut and run.

[citymouse]

Is Lackawanna a suburb?

[Downstate Buffaloian]

When I lived in WNY I used to go to the city about once per week. I usually went to a Pano's on Elmwood and to see my uncle in Black Rock. There was no urban/suburban divide for me.

Sometimes I'd even drive around the east side for fun listening to my Snoop Dogg album!:p

[biker]

I'm hearing cognitive dissonance screaming out those speakers.

[Downstate Buffaloian]

Cognitive dissonance is my specialty:D

Maybe its because I think for myself outside of prescribed labels like conservative, Liberal, Nihilist, rastafarian, etc.

If the idea fits, use it. I'm not one for ideological purity and that really p*sses some people off.

It's not that I don't have standards and ideals, its just that they don't fit into neat little packages.

Liberals think I'm conservative and Conservatives think I'm Liberal. I'm just me.

[Linda_D]

Cognitive dissonance is my specialty:D

Maybe its because I think for myself outside of prescribed labels like conservative, Liberal, Nihilist, rastafarian, etc.

If the idea fits, use it. I'm not one for ideological purity and that really p*sses some people off.

It's not that I don't have standards and ideals, its just that they don't fit into neat little packages.

Liberals think I'm conservative and Conservatives think I'm Liberal. I'm just me.

Except for the "true believers" and ideologues, most people are left on some issues and right on others and in the middle on still others, and there's not necessarily a set formula for how that's broken down. It's a lot more common than it might seem from the "culture wars" that have gone on in our society for the last ten years or so.

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

Except for the "true believers" and ideologues, most people are left on some issues and right on others and in the middle on still others, and there's not necessarily a set formula for how that's broken down. It's a lot more common than it might seem from the "culture wars" that have gone on in our society for the last ten years or so.


Can't believe I am saying this, but I agree with you. In regards to "culture wars" I would add it is a mix of one side trying to force a way of life v. the other side attempting to preserve a way of life. I feel American politics today on national issues is divided between how it should be and how it was. There really is no attention being paid to how it is and dealing with those circumstances.

[concernedwnyer]

Couldn't hurt. The problem is most people don't know how to write GOOD survey questions. I build a fair amount of surveys in my job, which often requires rewriting questions so the choices are clear, distinct, and not leading. :)

True but in this case the poll script in VB sucks. You have very little control over the format as a result it is difficult to phrase the poll questions properly.

[get_bent_pay_rent]

personally i dont leave the city unless i'm goin to the mall or best buy. everything i need is right here. to be honest i dont even have to leave my neighborhood for anything besides work. clothes, food, drinks and weed...what else more do you really need?


...i'm so tired of these people who leave the city but still feel its up to them to let us know how "dangerous, dirty and small" it is. youre gone now let it go, enjoy your beautiful community and forget about us.

[Achbek1]

Whoah, I just discovered this thread... And it kind of echoes what we have been discussing in other threads about sprawl and about people who are "afraid of the city."

I live in the inner ring suburbs and I probably go into the city at least one a week. I used to work downtown so I was there more often then. I have a couple of doctors who I or my family members see in the city. I have some relatives who live in the city.

There are, as we have mentioned in other posts, people who fear the city (or even people who fear KENMORE!) and we think they are silly.

[granpabob]

personally i dont leave the city unless i'm goin to the mall or best buy. everything i need is right here. to be honest i dont even have to leave my neighborhood for anything besides work. clothes, food, drinks and weed...what else more do you really need?


...i'm so tired of these people who leave the city but still feel its up to them to let us know how "dangerous, dirty and small" it is. youre gone now let it go, enjoy your beautiful community and forget about us.

that is just how I feel I enjoy my beautiful community and if the government would open more offices out side of the city I would never have to go there. in the past you had to shop in the city but now the burbs have many more stores. I get into the city about once a month or less. and I am perfectly happy to keep it that way.
for me going into the city means some one is in the hospital or they have a court date. I have defended my burbs but as far as the city goes iits just part of the skyline when I look out my livingroom window way of in the distance where the lights look pretty.
the burbs need a city and the city needs the burbs they are not at war with each other they support each other. as for the danger if you are careless it will find you anywhere.