Moving to the Urban Core – A Survey

In the United States, we are seeing a trend of people moving away from the suburbs back to the urban core. UrbanLiving360 has teamed up with a group of eminent professors at Arizona State University to analyze the reasons behind this trend.

If you are at least 21 years old and not an investor purchasing rental property, we invite you to complete the survey below. Anonymity will be preserved and the data will not be shared with third parties. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Arizona State University and a summary of the findings will be provided to all interested participants.

Study Contact Information

1) Are you considering an urban home as a primary residence or a second / vacation home?
2) How would you best characterize where you live now?
Question 3: Did the following events or change in life circumstances trigger your decision to consider moving downtown?
3a) Divorce
3b) Children moved out
3c) Lonely / isolated / bored
3d) New marriage / relationship
3e) New downtown job / tired of long commute
3f) Loss of job
3g) Other events
3h) If you answered yes to 3g, please explain. Write your answer here.
Question 4: Are any of the following items barriers to you moving downtown?
4a) Must sell current home
4b) Downsizing / decluttering / too much stuff
4c) Spouse / partner does not want to move
4d) Adult children do not want you to leave childhood home
4e) Do not want to raise children downtown
4f) Do not like change
4g) Safety concerns
4h) Too expensive
4i) Other barriers
4j) If you answered yes to 4i, please explain.Write your answer here.
Question 5: Do you see the following as benefits of living downtown?
5a) Sporting events
5b) Cultural events
5c) Walking rather than driving
5d) Closer to work
5e) Social connection
5f) Public transportation
5g) Ambiance / energizing feel of downtown
5h) Other benefits
5i) If you answered yes to 5h, please explain.Write your answer here.
6) Are you looking for a new lifestyle?
7) What will be the single most imporant factor in whether you decide to move to an urban core?Write your answer here.
8) Who will be living with you in your new home? I will be ...
9) Imagine a whole year has passed. Where will you likely be regarding your move downtown?
10) What is the highest level of education you have obtained?
11) If you live in the United States, in which state do you live?
12) If you do not currently live in the United States, in which country do you live?
13) What is your gender?
14) What is your age?
Question 15: We would like to know the ethnicity/race of the adults purchasing the home. However, if this is something you do not wish to reveal, please skip this question.
15a) You consider yourself primarily:
15b) Your spouse / partner considers themself primarily:
OPTIONAL: Survey findings
16) Would you like to receive an e-mail about the findings of the survey?
OPTIONAL: Interviews
17) In order to obtain more in-depth information on the decision-making process of moving to the urban core, we may interview a few of the survey participants. If you would like to be interviewed, please submit your name and telephone number.Write name and telephone number here.

If you have questions concerning this research study, please contact Morris Okun at 480-965-9298 or via e-mail at okun@asu.edu. If you have questions about your rights as a subject/participant in the research, or if you feel you have been placed at risk, you can contact the Chair of the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, through the ASU Office of Research Integrity and Assurance, at 480-965-6788.