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Not feeling the urge to drop $100 on a dozen roses?
Exhausted by the prospect of battling other romantics at the chocolate shop?
Turns out, you're in good company.
Whether they have better things occupying their dance cards or detest the pressure to score a V-night reservation, over half of North Shore readers polled said they're not celebrating Valentine's Day this year. In fact, almost 58 per cent of local readers who responded to a recent online poll said they're planning to sit out the societally-sanctioned celebration of love.
Those who were planning to celebrate favoured a quiet romantic evening at home, with almost 27 per cent indicating that's how they'd been spending Valentine's, while just under nine percent said they'll leave the house for a date night/dinner out with their partner. Fewer than seven per cent planned to go all out, with chocolates, flowers and gifts on Feb. 14th. (Hey there's always the other 364 days of the year to choose from!)
The North Shore News polled 1,043 North Shore News readers and asked the question: How do you plan to mark Valentine's Day?
The poll ran from 1/31/2023 to 2/14/2023. Of the 1,043 votes, we can determine that 402 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult North Shore News readers that are located in North Shore. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.03%, 19 times out of 20.
North Shore News 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.
