Newsday
Lawrence Levy, Associate Vice President and Executive Dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies, was interviewed for the Newsday article: “Large majority of New Yorkers are happy to live in the state, poll shows.”
Levy said what caught his eye in the poll by the Siena College Research Institute “was the number of people who said they left [New York] and then came back.” When asked whether they had moved away and returned to New York, 21% of respondents overall said they had, with 19% of New York City respondents saying they had done so, along with 14% from the suburbs and 28% from upstate. And 78% of New Yorkers had lived in the state 20 years or more. Among suburban respondents, it was even higher: 86%.
