Vancouver isn't known for being an outgoing-ly friendly and easy-to-befriend city. Most locals would agree that it may be as cold as it's winter (perhaps not as cold as the rest of the country, but a smidge dreary at least).
While some residents make optimistic efforts to change the city's unwelcoming reputation through a giant friend-making group, AI-scheduled socializing and even painting Vancouver yellow, many continue to find friend-making challenging.
Just over 30 per cent of locals find making friends in Vancouver "super difficult," voting on a scale of one to 10 with one being "super difficult" and 10 being "super easy." Most Vancouverites voted between one and four.
While the majority of locals chose one (30 per cent), three (14 per cent), and two (12 per cent), in that order, the poll took a positive turn with nearly 10 per cent of Vancouverites voting eight before dropping back down to four.
Looks like Vancouver's reputation as an unfriendly city continues to hold true.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 765 Vancouver Is Awesome readers and asked the question: How easy is it for you to make friends in Vancouver on a scale of 1-10? Super difficult being 1 and super easy being 10
The poll ran from 4/12/2023 to 4/15/2023. Of the 765 votes, we can determine that 384 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.54%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
