In 1939, the Roper Organization asked people to choose from five statements giving their feeling about New York City. In 1992, they repeated the same question. The distribution of responses:
1939 1992
one of the best places in the world
in which to work and live 10% 4%
a good place to visit for a short time
but I wouldn't want to work or live there 47% 45%
a good place to work & make money
but no place to live 11% 10%
a good place in which to live but no
place to be in business 1% 1%
one of the worst places in the world
in which to work or live 8% 21%
Don't know 22% 18%
The three mixed responses were about equally common on both occasions, but there was a big decline in "one of the best" and big increase in "one of the worst." In 1992, New York had just finished a couple of bad decades--it would be interesting to repeat the question today and see if its reputation has bounced back.
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