# Is the SDMB East-Coast heavy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992 "2008-05-29T05:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/41 "2008-05-30T00:23:51Z")
I came to Japan from Boston, so I guess I went from east coast to EXTREME east coast what what! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/42 "2008-05-30T02:03:20Z")
I’m in Boston, but I work nights. It’s fun because I see a lot of posting from outside of the US, and just when I begin to get out of work I watch the board activity jump up as the east -\> west coasts wake up. Oddly, in the discussion of East vs. West, I see a lot of Chicago-area dopers. Which makes sense I guess since that’s where the Straight Dope is published out of. And oddly enough I have this odd sticky stereotype that we have a tremendously high proportion of Ohio dopes. **IvoryTowerDenizen** mentioned the [MMP map I did recently here](http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110238373354834723387.0004448c2d954d5a5c647&ll=11.980051,-79.06869&spn=160.034053,360&t=h&z=1). It isn’t really representative of the population of the SDMB, just a bunch of friendly kids who enjoy the MPSIMS forum. If anyone wants to be added though I certainly would plop you in. **BellRung** , that’s neat, I knew you were in Japan but didn’t know you were from Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/43 "2008-05-30T02:05:09Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] And the count so far is: US Eastern 19 US Central 2 US Pacific 3 Caspian Sea 1 (either +3.5 or +5 GMT, depending on which website\*) Indonesia 1 +7 GMT Austrilian Eastern Time 2 I think the ratios will change later in the day. \*clarification desired if anyone wants to chime in [/QUOTE] Thanks for the counts, **Y**. I think there were three from Australian Eastern, though. Please count me as one more for US Eastern Time’s tally. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/44 "2008-05-30T02:13:04Z")
Californian reporting in. (From California) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/45 "2008-05-30T02:38:38Z")
Best Coast. You do the math. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/46 "2008-05-30T02:49:35Z")
[QUOTE=chicken wire?] From **Loaded** ’s perspective, I’m on the South coast, which is to say the East coast, which is well North of **Kam**. We’re GMT +10, baby! 😛 [/QUOTE] And to confuse matters, I am normally east coast, north of **Loaded Dog**. But at present I am Perth- Australian West Coast. A moving target is harder to hit. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/47 "2008-05-30T03:10:43Z")
Michigan center of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/48 "2008-05-30T03:32:58Z")
Dude! West coast. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/49 "2008-05-30T03:55:04Z")
Mountain Standard Time representing. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/50 "2008-05-30T04:11:11Z")
Posting from the edge of the World, and all of Western civilization. I was actually there \*\*on \*\*the [edge](http://www.jackmcbridephotography.com/p7ssm_img_1/fullsize/MNDO-053fs-StillwellFog.jpg) the other weekend… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/51 "2008-05-30T04:22:42Z")
Eastern Standard Time now. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/52 "2008-05-30T04:24:39Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Caspian Sea 1 (either +3.5 or +5 GMT, depending on which website\*) \*clarification desired if anyone wants to chime in [/QUOTE] It’s GMT+5 according to the clock on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/53 "2008-05-30T04:38:40Z")
I’m in the Atlantic Standard Time Zone and I mostly post from work; I work nights so I probably match up more with the west-coast Dopers in terms of ‘peak’ log-in times. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/54 "2008-05-30T04:46:04Z")
double post… ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/55 "2008-05-30T04:49:11Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] **BellRung** , that’s neat, I knew you were in Japan but didn’t know you were from Boston. [/QUOTE] Yeah, originally from NH, but moved down there a few years ago. I’m glad I figured out how to drive in Boston. Makes driving in Japan seem like a cakewalk (anyone else think that word is weird? Like is it really all that easy to walk on a bunch of cakes? Seems like it would get slippery), which is fortunate, because the licensing exam they have over here was designed by bureaucratic tight-assed chimps who routinely lose chess games to aardvarks. If you get your international driver’s license, you’re allowed to drive here for a year. After that you have to get a Japanese license. The test involves things like the following steps for making a left turn: check your left mirror, check your blind spot, turn on your blinker, check your blind spot, move the car to the lefthand side of the (single) lane, check your mirror, check your blindspot, make a left turn, remembering to stay within 300-1000 cm of the line on the side of the road. Yeah, if anyone actually drove like that they would crash within 2 minutes of turning the engine on. And actually, if you want to get right down to my location, I’m a west coaster in Japan. But the other coast is only 3 hours away! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/56 "2008-05-30T07:44:14Z")
Central time zone…but I work evenings. I don’t usually actually log in from work (learned a little something from a **Hal Briston** post), but am on after work when some Pacific Dopers are still hanging around. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/57 "2008-05-30T10:20:44Z")
I´m smack dab in between… Iceland, that is. And just to prove my point, … [proof](http://ekedvalds.blog.is/album/Reykjaneshringur/image/362562/) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/58 "2008-05-30T10:56:17Z")
East Coast of Northern Ireland (stuck up inside Belfast Lough, so not really the coast I suppose) a few minutes behind absolute GMT. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/59 "2008-05-30T11:02:46Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] I’m on the West Coast - of the Caspian Sea [/QUOTE] Baku? I lived in Tbilisi for a while in 2002/03… never made it down there tho. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992/60 "2008-05-30T11:05:33Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Caspian Sea 1 (either +3.5 or +5 GMT, depending on which website\*) [/QUOTE] 3.5 would be Iran, 5 is Azerbaijan. I am CET (Prague) or GMT+4 (Dubai) depending on summer/winter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-east-coast-heavy/450992.md?page=4)