Statistician and politics/policy blogger Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com fame is putting together an analysis of the factors that contribute to livable neighborhoods, and as part of this project he's surveying people who live/have lived in major cities on what their preferences are. The results will get written up in an article in New York Magazine.
Basically, you rate a number of different factors based on how important they are to you in choosing where to live, and specify how much of a premium you'd be willing to pay to live in a dense, walkable, livable neighborhood as opposed to just an average one. The survey also has some demographic questions so your preferences can be broken down by age, income, etc. The whole thing only takes about 5-10 minutes.
Something gives me the feeling that a few planners might be interested to share their thoughts on the subject. Click here to see Silver's announcement of the project on 538, along with a link to the survey itself.
UPDATE: The survey has closed. Guess he didn't want too massive a pile of data to sort through.
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