A new NY1/Marist College poll released Thursday finds that New Yorkers are increasingly concerned about their finances and that 25 percent plan to move out of state in the next five years. NY1's Bobby Cuza filed the following report.

New Yorkers don’t have to look far to find ample signs of discontent with the state’s economic outlook, but the latest NY1/Marist College poll finds despair has increased sharply in the past six months alone.

Just 23 percent of registered voters expect their family finances to get better in the coming year. That’s an eight-point drop from NY1’s poll in May. Twenty-two percent expect their finances to get worse, and 55 percent expect things to stay the same.

“That really reflects, I think, the duration of this economic decline, and the fact that people just don’t have a sense that we’ve bottomed out yet,” said Lee Miringoff, NY1/Marist College pollster.

Voters in New York City, though, have a somewhat brighter outlook than those upstate.

Democrats are also apparently more optimistic. Twenty-nine percent see their finances improving compared to just 17 percent of Republicans and 18 percent of those not enrolled in a party.

New Yorkers may be increasingly pessimistic about their own futures, but it doesn’t appear to be driving them away. While one in every four people says they plan to move away sometime within the next five years, including 38 percent of those under the age of 30, those figures are basically unchanged since NY1’s last poll in May.

Still, even those who are sticking around don’t necessarily think New York is affordable.

A combined 73 percent said it’s not at all or not very affordable, 25 percent said affordable, and one percent said very affordable.

It’s not that same one percent being vilified in Zuccotti Park, however. In fact, lower-income New Yorkers were more likely to find the state affordable.

As for the direction of the state economy, just 13 percent say it’s getting better right now, 36 percent say it’s getting worse, and 51 percent say it’s staying the same.

Fifty-four percent believe the worst is yet to come, while 42 percent believe the worst is behind us. More than three quarters of those polled believe New York State is in a recession.

“The economic picture is certainly very bad,” said Miringoff, “and there’s no sense here, as elsewhere, of any great recovery.”