With Valentine's Day right around the corner, many local lovebirds are planning the perfect gift, restaurant dinner, and overall romantic date with their S.O.
However, with inflation bumping up grocery store prices and the infamously expensive rental market (which now sees living rooms for rent), some Vancouverites may be rethinking their budget.
Around 22 per cent of Vancouver locals say that they will be spending as little money as possible on Valentine's Day this year. Around 21 per cent are keeping their budget under $25 and 5 per cent of locals say that their budget falls between $25 and $50.
However, a little over 25 per cent of locals don't have a budget at all, and around 11 per cent of Vancouverites say that their budget is between $50 and $100. Only 6 per cent of locals are willing to spend over $100 on Valentine's Day this year.
A remaining 8 per cent of Vancouverites are opting to make things themselves rather than buy them.
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 484 Vancouver Is Awesome readers and asked the question: What is your budget for Valentine's Day this year?
The poll ran from 2/8/2023 to 2/11/2023. Of the 484 votes, we can determine that 238 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 +/- 4.45%, 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.
