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City Business readers are doing just swell, thank you
Posted by: Kevin Allman in Economy, Media, New Orleans Life

The Great Recedepression of 2009 might be chewing up many of us, but readers of New Orleans CityBusiness seem to be rolling in clover — clover as in four-leaf hundred-dollar bills. In the publication’s daily newsletter this afternoon, the paper published the results of a poll asking “How is the economy affecting your vacation plans this summer?”

Gambit posed a similar question a couple of weeks back, and this is what our readership had to say (obviously in between mouthfuls of ramen and cat food):

• 9% - leaving the country
• 40% - leaving the city
• 9% - staycation at home
• 42% - what vacation?

Not so City Biz readers. The answer “No effect, because I am doing really well this recession” was chosen by 100% of their respondents:

City Biz

Dang, son! Any of you fellows over at City Business spare a dime? Greg? Deon? Christian? Hello??? Is this thing on …
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Comments:
jeffrey on July 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm #

They are bucking the trend again!

eli on July 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pm #

i guess we don’t need to see the crosstabs

alli on July 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm #

how many people took citybiz’s survey? surely not a statistically significant sample.

liprap on July 13th, 2009 at 7:43 pm #

I’m sure only one person voted on that one.

Their choices of answers to these questions are asinine anyhow.

Greg LaRose on July 14th, 2009 at 11:42 am #

I think what happened was Kevin posted the image of the poll right after it was activated and sent out on our Daily Update. Since it’s only an image, it won’t reflect updated voting. Visit http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com for updated totals and to cast your vote.

Superdeformed on July 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm #

Well, so much for that.

*goes back to the recession*

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