My guy lives in another state, about a two hour plane ride away.
It’s working quite nicely. It will be a year soon, and we usually see each other every 3 weeks. We both make a commitment to talk on the phone every day, as well as email each other.
Technically speaking, I live in East Boston, which is pretty small. One stop up on the T, and I’m dating out-of-town. I’d have no objections at all to a 45 minute or so trip, and anything longer could be considered, depending on the right guy. Road trips are always cool.
Ok, I’m new here, but I’ll chime in. I began dating someone in a different state (let alone city), and I moved to his city to be with him. No regrets, yet, although it’s awfully cold here. 
I think I’ve been dating outside my gene pool and section of the food chain.
I need to have better standards.
Essentially. Short story is: met whilst I was on holiday (vacation) over here. Popped to Nottingham Castle for one day. He asked me to the pub… TADA!! Instant attraction 
Longer story: holiday had to end and I had to return to university and work. Thank the gods for email because there was one point where my phone bill was nearly $1400 for a month of calls :eek: Graduated on Friday 19 May 2000, Friday 26 May I was on a plane and had moved over to the UK.
aaaaawwwww!! Ain’t love grand?
:eek:
::: gasp :::
::: just reading this after a few days away from the boards :::
See what happens when you go away? That’ll teach you… 
To agree with Joe K. In small towns it is almost required to leave town to find someone you are not related to. And even on the off chance you are not related to them, probably someone in town has a photo of you being bathed together at age two in the same tub and this is not a good basis for a date.
So almost everybody in my small town goes out of town to find a significant other.
TV
My girlfriend lives about 40 miles from me, thankfully I see her through most of my day, though.
Used to live 450-ish miles from my fiancee. Definitely worth it.
Definitely glad I’m living with her now:)
I really enjoy this thread. I currently met a guy in the bottom left corner of Minnesota (Heron Lake or something) and he wants to go out with me. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and it’s a good 8-9 hour drive. He said driving that distance is nothing to him, and I love to drive and do road trips so I’d be willing to go there all the time. I’m still debating it though, but reading this gives me some hope that it could actually work. No harm in trying right?
I’m a poor bum though, so I couldnt exactly fly there all the time, and my car isnt the best thing to take on long road trips.
Who knows…I figure we can always meet half way and just get a room for a night or two and “hang out”.
OH! The one thing that made me mad was he said his phone plan doesn’t allow him to call Canada, so I said I won’t go out with you until you can fix that little problem. No way in hell am I paying for all the calls.
I don’t blame you Trancey. Make sure it’s a two-way street.
When Mrs. Bernse and I dated, I lived in Vancouver, BC and she in Calgary, Alberta. About once a month for 3 years one of us flew to the others city.
A pain in the ass, but we pulled it off. I got transferred back to Alberta and she graduted from Universtity. She got a job in the city I lived in and we’re living happily ever after.
Yes. The SO drove 4 1/2 hours for our first date. We’d known each other for a while, though.
Mrs. KVS lived in Brooklyn, NY when we met, and she lived there until we were married and she moved down to Baltimore. It was a 3 1/2 hour drive (one way). I was working nights at the time, so I would work Thursday night, go home, shower, change, get on the road, and drive up to NY with no sleep. On Sunday evenings, I would leave NY and drive directly to work, not sleeping until Monday morning.
BTW, it’s not uncommon (in the observant Jewish world) for those who live within 5 or so hours of NY to go in just for a date. I had a roommate here in Baltimore that would go up to NY on the Friday of a (federal) holiday weekend and have a date on Saturday night, two on Sunday, and another on Monday - each one with a different girl.
My GF lives about 35 miles away. It’s not too bad of a drive, about 25-30 mins., except during rush hour. She usually stays with me on Friday and Saturday nights and I stay with her on Tuesday or Wednesday. The phone calls are not LD, so no extra cost there.