# Burn Notice scenario **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484 "2011-12-08T07:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/1 "2011-12-08T07:37:26Z")
There’s this program on the USA television network called _Burn Notice_, and one of the premises(for the first few seasons, at least) is that the main character is stuck in Miami, Florida, and will get in a boatload of trouble with various government agencies if he leaves town. What Town/City would you want to get stuck in indefinitely if this were to happen to you for some reason? The rules are: 1. No leaving city limits. 2. It has to have a minimum population of 300,000 people. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/2 "2011-12-08T12:16:39Z")
I think that I would have to choose Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/3 "2011-12-08T13:53:18Z")
I’m adding “scenario” to the title to avoid confusion with a discussion of the program. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/4 "2011-12-08T14:02:36Z")
Isn’t this just an average life for millions of people? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/5 "2011-12-08T15:40:07Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > Isn’t this just an average life for millions of people? Most don’t get to choose their ideal city, and travelling outside city limits happens all the time for most. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/6 "2011-12-08T15:41:20Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I’m adding “scenario” to the title to avoid confusion with a discussion of the program. Thank you-I should have thought of that. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/7 "2011-12-08T15:44:31Z")
I would choose Seattle too. I really enjoyed my time there and I could see being ok with being stuck there. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/8 "2011-12-08T16:05:40Z")
LA or San Diego, but LA only if the “city limits” are “the greater LA metroplex.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/9 "2011-12-08T16:37:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > LA or San Diego, but LA only if the “city limits” are “the greater LA metroplex.” Whatever the _official_ city limits are. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/10 "2011-12-08T17:36:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Whatever the _official_ city limits are. See, this makes it rather hard; take Montreal for example (which I’m quite content to live in forever). Montreal is an agglomeration of several municipalities, but they don’t take up the whole island. There are [patches of the Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montreal2006.png)that aren’t formally part of Montreal but would be rather hard to avoid: would I diligently have to go around Westmount, the Town of Mount-Royal, Hampstead, Côte-St-Luc and Montreal-Ouest? Could I use the metro, because some of it passes through those cities? What about bus routes? _Burn Notice_ is always showing scenes near an airport or in industrial sectors…I wouldn’t be able to go to Dorval? Using official city limits gets rather complicated in some cases! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/11 "2011-12-08T17:48:36Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Using official city limits gets rather complicated in some cases! That was intentional. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-scenario/605484/12 "2011-12-08T17:57:32Z")
Then definitely San Diego. There are virtually no “holes” in the county, and just about everyplace I’d want to go is within city limits. Sorry, Stone Brewing, but I can still get your beers even though your brewery in too far north.