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5:03 or saying the same, starting to come up a bit as well. So 22% saying the same and 20% getting better. A lot of these things are gonna be directly tied to kind of the economy, how people feel about their personal finances. And so as we go through the survey, it's gonna add a lot more depth and color to why respondents and residents are feeling that way. But we are moving in the right direction. When we dig in a little bit more and we asked people, so why are those individuals that did feel the quality of life was getting better? What was it about Vancouver that was making them feel that way? And around 50% said there was a lot of positive growth and development and when we looked deeper into the open-ended responses, what we really found was, is that was looking at kind of the development going on. So the waterfront was mentioned, people were seeing that there was new buildings going up, more apartment complexes. It really made it seem like there is new businesses

6:01 opening up in the downtown area as well. And there was a lot of mentions about parks and how clean the parks were and things like that. We also saw some mentions of transportation and infrastructure. This was one of the areas that we were able to dig into a little bit more in the focus groups. And it really was kind of encapsulating of everything that makes the city work, but it really did focus more on kind of the streets, the roadways, traffic patterns, ability to kind of be able to navigate the city and feel safe while doing so. So that kind of runs the gamut, but I would say it's mostly focused on the transportation infrastructure. And then I want to comment a little bit on that 42% saying it's a generally positive or good place to live. People move here 'cause they don't want to live in Portland or Seattle. They think that Vancouver is a far superior location. It's where they want to go to raise families, to get a better quality of life. And so they really do think it's a clean

7:01 and lovely place to live. Now, if you go to the next one on kind of the other side of this, why do they think the quality of life in Vancouver is getting worse? And that's really predominantly focused on homelessness.