A growing percentage of residents want to leave the county, despite the general perception that there is less crime, vandalism and use of drugs and alcohol
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The residents of the county of Los Angeles are less satisfied with quality of life compared to people living in the whole of California and the United States. In fact, a 10% of Angelenos plan to move out next year , according to LABarometer’s second annual habitability survey , released by USC Dornsife and Union Bank on Wednesday.
The study shows that on a scale of seven -where seven is great satisfaction-, the average of the Los Angeles county is 4.3, a figure that has hardly changed in comparison with that of 2019. However, it is almost half a point below the average for the United States and California , a gap that is double that of two years ago.
Regarding the people who want to leave the county next year, the percentage from the most recent survey (14%) represents an increase of 40% of the data from 1999 . That year, 7% of Angelenos said they planned to leave the county. On the other hand, a 14% of residents plan to find new accommodation within Los Angeles.
What they have increased in the county is consumer confidence , a parameter that has stagnated in the rest of California and the United States. On a scale from zero to 800 -where 100 is the most positive assessment of the economy, consumer confidence in Los Angeles County is 50.3. In the entire state of California the evaluation is 50. 9 and in the country as a whole is 51. 8, according to the same study.
On the other hand, The research shows that residents perceive less crime, vandalism and use of drugs and alcohol in their neighborhoods than in 2019. Respondents answered a series of questions about whether or not problems with these three issues were common in their neighborhoods.
“Five months after our first survey of habitability of LABarometer, COVID – 40 changed everyone’s life, ”said Kyla Thomas, director of LABarometer, Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California (USC). Our latest findings, reflecting the experiences of Los Angeles County residents during the peak of the pandemic, reveal reasons for optimism and concern “.
On the positive side is the drop in the perception of crime, vandalism and problems related to the use of drugs and alcohol. On the downside, Thomas finds the increase in 40% in the number of people who want to leave Los Angeles next year.
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