“France” here meaning an overseas département, correct?
ETA: that’s in response to jtur88. Forgot to hit “quote”.
I’m right on the county line, so if you drew a 100 yard circle around my house, it would include two counties.
If I drew a circle centered on my house out to Albany, it would include most of New York (but not New York City). Eyeballing it, I think Pittsburgh and Cleveland would be inside the circle but Detroit would be outside. My circle would also contain a good portion of southern Ontario, including Toronto and Ottawa. So I’m located close to another country’s capital than I am to my own.
Expanding the circle out to Washington would bring Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia, and Montreal inside.
Coincidentally I was looking up “the most remote city in the world” the other day, which, depending on what’s considered a city based on population, which varies, is either Auckland New Zealand, or Perth Australia.
I am from Dunedin, New Zealand, a town small enough to not be considered significant in its own country*, and currently live in Melbourne, Australia, which is a little less remote because Sydney isn’t all that far away.
But effectively I am in the most remote part of the world, and always have been. Which explains a lot about my life.
*There used to be “four main centres” which were Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Until the 90s when it became “three main centres” and Dunedin dropped off the map because there are three other towns in the North Island that have a larger population, and that’s after you cheat by widening Dunedin to include rural regional zones.
If I drew a circle sround my house that had me at the center, with a four mile radius, I’d still be in my city. I’m right in the middle of town. In that circle would be my mom’s house, both of my sisters, my workplace, my church, and where I do my shopping, and the dogpark. Oh, and the place I get my car worked on, and the vet, and my doctor’s offices.
If I draw a circle ten miles around me, I will still be in England. I might just make it stretch from the West Midlands to the Black Country, but why would I want to do that when the folks in my city spend a lot of time insisting we’re not Black Country YamYams?
In my present location, I’ve only been outside my county five times in the past five years. Three times on round the world trips, and twice when my sister flew in and rented a car and we went to the seashore. Other than those five trips, I might have not been over 5 miles from my front door.
I live in South Africa, in one of the national capital cities (also the provincial capital), so any 10mi radius area is not going to get me anywhere exotic. A circle to the furthest national capital will also encompass parts of Namibia, Botswana and all of Lesotho. Quite a large chunk of South Atlantic Ocean, too.
I was born in a real city.
Moved, at age 12, to “cheaper labor” town (this was when China was "RED China, and Latin America was subject to military change of governments. Often the US Marines.
Result: the thought of actually building a factory outside the US was unthinkable).
Net result: town of 20,000.
Personal change: “Get the HELL out of here!”
I am back in a real city - about 6 million people.
Warren Buffet lives three miles from my house
100 miles would get me to two state capitals, but not to any other city with as many as 100,000 people.
In my present location:
One block gets me to the cat doctor.
One-and-a-half blocks gets me to a good Italian restaurant.
Two blocks gets me to the grocery, an excellent deli, a Columbia clothing outlet, and to my credit union.
Three blocks gets me to my dentist, the UPS store, and the local bakery.
Four blocks takes me to a food cart pod with some excellent Cajun and Laotian food.
Five blocks gets me to a spice shop and the library.
I love this neighborhood.
We’re within 50 miles of Washington DC. So a 50-mile radius circle would encompass a chunk of MD and a bit of VA. A 10-mile radius would clip the adjacent county. 60-mile radius might hit Delaware.
From my home in Hilo, Hawaii, its about 200 miles (over water) to the city of Honolulu. About 2400 miles to the US west coast and about 4000 miles to Japan.
(And we still qualify for Amazon Prime!)
Okay… my home city really doesn’t have any county seat but itself.
A circle big enough to reach Toronto (provincial capital,) would also clip off a bit of New York State. it seems to me.
A circle big enough to get to the national capital, Ottawa, would also include bits of Quebec, and many other US states.
Fun game!
The farthest away from “anything” I’ve ever been was when I visited my grandma, she lived at least 20 miles away from the nearest town.
There was a junkyard right across the street.:smack:
It’s more than a three hour drive for me to get to an Interstate Highway.
Driving three hours in every direction, collectively, would put me on 1½ dozen interstates, pretty much evenly split between two & three digit varieties.
My town used to be the county seat, but there aren’t no counties here no mo’. Such a circle would encompass… the town.
The capital is about 18 miles, so it wouldn’t encompass much.
I live five miles from the small nucleus of the town, about five miles from the nearest supermarket/shopping plaza, and about a mile from the Interstate. Unless something’s changed, I live in one of the Starbucks-free zones: at least fifteen miles in the closest direction, and probably well over thirty in others.
A circle encompassing the state capitol would be entirely within the state. A circle encompassing the US Capitol would encompass most of the US, most of Canada (including Iqaluit and a large fraction of Nunavut) and would cover most of the Chukotsy and Providensky districts of the Chukotka Okrug of Russia.
Curiously, the distance to the US Capitol is with a mile of the distance to Palacio Nacional in Mexico City.
I’m close to everything except big bodies of water. Other than time living on the road, I’ve never had a permanent home so far from a Great Lake or the St. Lawerence Seaway (connecting the lakes).
I do have waterfront property, if you count the little drain in the back yard, but in all, I do feel a bit agoraphobic (really, being near a large, connected body of water always brings me a sense of ease).
I’m currently equidistant between Ann Arbor and Detroit, which would be great if I ever actually took advantage of the culture of either city. My own little town has its quaint culture that I’ve yet to take real advantage of yet, too. Give me a break, though; I moved here in August and have been spending every minute of my life moulding the house into my home!
The County Seat is Detroit, but luckily the country is very, very distinct from Detroit. I actually never, ever, thought that I could live in the same county as Detroit, but it’s truly a world apart.
On the other hand, I can be in Ontario in 25 minutes!