Mini Poll Results

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis?

Do you plan to take a vacation this summer?

71%
Yes
12%
Yes, but it will be a "stay-cation"
17%
No

Which of the following is the best time for you to get away?

5%
Spring break
48%
Summer
47%
Off-season

Will you use all of your work vacation days this year?

31%
Yes
35%
Probably not
12%
I don't get vacation days at work
23%
I am not working

Compared to your last vacation, do you plan to spend more money or less money on your summer vacation?

25%
More money
31%
Less money
31%
About the same
13%
No vacay for me this summer

Which of the following factors is the most important one in where you choose a summer vacation?

15%
Cost of the destination
14%
Cost of the travel to get to the destination
4%
Availability of a place to stay at the destination
25%
Schedules of my family/friends who go with me
12%
Weather at the destination
6%
Nostalgia: It is where we always go
23%
Something else

Which purely theoretical change would most improve your summer vacation?

16%
No children along
2%
No spouse along
6%
No in-laws along
35%
No cell phone along
41%
No diet while away

When you are away on vacation and you run in to other people from St. Louis, are you glad, disappointed, or generally indifferent?

67%
Glad
2%
Disappointed
31%
Generally indifferent

When people you meet on vacation ask you where you are from, do you most usually name your city, your state, or your region?

95%
City, like St. Louis
3%
State, like Missouri
0%
Region, like the Midwest
1%
None of those: I tell a lie, perhaps with an assumed French accent
1%
None of those: I mention my neighborhood, like Soulard

If you weren’t from St. Louis, would you want to come here for vacation?

72%
Yes
28%
No

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