Just How Honest Are New Yorkers Anyway?

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that being nice and being honest are two very different things.

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Sometimes people try to be nice by telling white lies to not hurt another person’s feelings. Other times, people care more about being upfront and honest and scoot niceties to the side.

Gerald Jellison has been a professor of social psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for over 30 years and in his years studying people, he’s discovered that the average person is lied to up to 200 times every day.

Up to 200 times! It makes a person think back on their day and wonder who has lied to them and when and why, doesn’t it?

However, is there a chance that the number of times a day a person is lied to could fluctuate based on where they live in the county? Those who study such things say it absolutely does and to prove their point, they created something called the “US Dishonesty Index.”

According to the US Dishonesty Index, the state where you’ll probably be lied to the most is Wyoming, and believe it or not, the most honest state according to the experts is California.

Where does that leave New York?

Well, based on the average monthly Google searches for "Tips on Lying," average monthly Google searches for "How to Bluff," average monthly Google searches for "Ashley Madison," divorce rates, and overall integrity scores, New York ranks as the 5th most honest state in America.

Are These the Best, Most Fun "Retro" Furniture Stores in Upstate New York? We Think So!

Remember when couches were purple, dinette sets were bright red, and living room lampshades came in every color of the rainbow? If you do, your are a Baby Boomer and we have found your old furniture at these great Upstate New York retro stores!

And if you lived through those times, you have to remember when everybody thought, "Thank God!" when those styles went, well, out of style! So, how could they ever come back to being one the hottest collectible styles of furniture today? The answer is simple.

We all got old.

We yearn for the good old days, which seemed simpler and better (OK, put your rose colored glasses down). The furniture, which dawned at the infancy of the Space Age, was zany in design, dazzling in color, and made your home look modern and fun. So why not bring it all back. Can you believe what happened to vinyl records?

These stores are among the best in Upstate New York that sell the Mid-Century Modern furniture that our parents' had. We want them now. And these stores are stocked to the walls with anything you need to enter the "way back machine" and relive the days of your youth with original furniture and accessories from the 1940s-1980s.

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

21 Famous Upstate NY Homes You've Probably Never Heard Of

Here is an eclectic collection of 21 homes that have wonderful back stories to them. Several are grand mansions, several are museums, one is basically a cabin, and one is attached to a lighthouse. The homes have fantastic DNA to them. You may be surprised that a couple of these homes have very significant connections to famous authors. One is the home of a medical family who practiced there for 80 years (same family!). Take a look at these "unknown homes of Upstate New York." And the best thing is that...they are all open to the public for tours! I wrote a book about the famous homes of Upstate New York titled "Open House" (Syracuse University Press) and these are some of the best ones from that book!

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

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