One-third of New Yorkers are much less happy with their lives: ballot

New Yorkers can’t get no satisfaction, in accordance with a brand new ballot.

Empire State residents are extra dissatisfied with their lives than they have been 15 years in the past, says the Siena Faculty research launched Wednesday — citing the COVID-19 pandemic, political turmoil and inflation as attainable culprits.

Solely 27% of New Yorkers have been extra content material with their lives than they have been a 12 months in the past, down from 44% in 2008, the survey mentioned. Some 33%, in the meantime, mentioned they have been much less happy than a 12 months in the past, whereas 39% didn’t report a change

“In 2018 we famous a decline in New Yorkers’ life satisfaction from 2008 after we first requested these questions, however after COVID, political turmoil and now inflation, we see a major drop amongst state residents in each class of life satisfaction,” mentioned Siena Faculty Analysis Institute Director Don Levy in a press release.

“It has been a attempting time for a lot of New Yorkers. When contemplating all residents we see the biggest drops in satisfaction with household relationships, the place they dwell, their funds, what they do for work and their well being.”

Some 46% of residents mentioned they have been both not very happy or by no means happy with their monetary scenario. Solely 12% mentioned they have been content material when it got here to their funds.

New Yorkers appeared most comfy with their household relationships, with 83% saying they have been happy in that regard, whereas 79% have been proud of the place they dwell, and 72% with their well being.

A whopping 75percentof respondents mentioned they have been both “not very” or “by no means” happy with the world as a complete — together with political, financial, social, and environmental points and tendencies — and the path it’s going, the ballot discovered.

Ladies have been much less happy with their lives than males, a change from 2018, the survey discovered. In addition they expressed much less satisfaction than males with their monetary situation, their work, their well being, their relationship with a life associate and the path of the world.

“Amongst ladies, no space measured elevated satisfaction over the 4 years with the biggest decline in household relationships maybe resulting from COVID retaining folks aside,” mentioned Levy.