# Who Is The Most Isolated Doper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007 "2002-11-16T08:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Coda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coda)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/21 "2002-11-17T17:10:06Z")
HA! I have a **Trader Joes** about a block away when I am at my house in Tempe. Whats better is it’s in a strip mall with Arizona’s oldest and biggest independant book store. I can kill two birds with one stone. Get some nice organic cook’ins with a cheap bottle of wine, then go over to Changing Hands Bookstore and read in the back for a few hours!!! \*\*Thats when Mrs. Coda doesn’t want to go across the street to Safeway though… ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/22 "2002-11-18T03:15:38Z")
Well, this year I’ve moved, but I used to be fairly isolated. I lived on a farm, and my closest neighbour was about 2 km away. It was 10 km to the nearest town, which had a general store, post office, a pub and a population of around 100. There was a one-man police station the next town over, who patrolled the entire district. The nearest doctor, hospital, fast food joint, supermarket etc. was about 75 km away. The nearest actual city was about 250 km away and was Perth, the most isolated city in the world. And in about a fortnight I’ll be going home again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/23 "2002-11-18T03:24:47Z")
We have at least one poster in Iceland ( **bj0rn** ), and I’m pretty sure we have one in Newfoundland too. Hey, you Perthites, **DarkJudicator** will be over your way at the end of next week - why don’t y’all organise a Groperfest? ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/24 "2002-11-18T05:01:35Z")
Not a bad idea **reprise** , but I won’t be in town. Exams end this Thursday so I’m heading down outta Perth at the beginning of December. I’m going to down south to pretend I’m a schoolie again. Weee! ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/25 "2002-11-18T06:36:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > \*\*I’d rather be in Sydney. \*\* I’ll swap with you 🙂 I’m close enough to Sydney and I’d rather be in Queensland. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/26 "2002-11-18T06:45:25Z")
That would be me. I live on my own planet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/27 "2002-11-18T06:52:37Z")
Damn Opal, I was about to say there’s a few Dopers that seem to be in their own world… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/28 "2002-11-18T14:07:31Z")
I’m Emotionally Isolated - does that count?? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/29 "2002-11-18T14:42:42Z")
I live 100 metres off route 66… _bus_ route 66, that is. I guess that doesn’t count… ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/30 "2002-11-18T14:54:49Z")
I’m not in any way the most isolated, but doesn’t **Henry B.** live in Siberia? I’ve only seen Siberia from above, but man, if that’s not remote… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/31 "2002-11-18T16:44:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Buck The Diver \* > **Closest McDonalds? 97 miles. > Closest Wal-Mart? 167 miles.** I would just like to say that it’s a sad, sad thing when we equate closeness to McDonalds and Wal-Mart with closeness to civilization. p.s. any doper astronauts out there? I realize they only go about a hundred miles up, but that’s gotta count for lots of extra points… ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/32 "2002-11-18T16:49:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by t-keela \* > \*\*Damn Opal, I was about to say there’s a few Dopers that seem to be in their own world… \*\* No, that would be **Justhink**. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/33 "2002-11-18T18:24:53Z")
Istanbul doesn’t exactly scream “remote” to me. Try driving through it at 6 PM. 😃 I agree that in terms of pure remoteness, the Siberian doper probably wins. I live in one of the most densely populated countries in the world, and there’s a few Dopers in my city even. So I don’t qualify by a long shot. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/34 "2002-11-18T19:01:51Z")
BiblioCat -“No, that would be Justhink.” …that’s one of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/35 "2002-11-18T22:11:29Z")
My physical form is in Metropolitan Seattle, but the jar containing my brain is on the far side of the moon. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/36 "2002-11-18T23:34:54Z")
I doubt we can classify **Henry B** as a Siberian doper- he recently (last week or so?) posted that he’s actually west of the Urals, and the sig is due to a joke his friend made. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/37 "2002-11-19T00:25:15Z")
Ummm, I might be in the running… **magic8ball** has **buliwyf** to keep up the profile of the GNWT. There’s only me here so far. Let me see. I’m living in the only major population centre for at least 500 miles - and the nearest is Fairbanks…I am currently the only Yukon Doper…I’m at least 1500 miles from a Trader Vic’s, no Burger King, no Gap, no Cotton Ginny’s, and we only got Wal-Mart last year. Although, the fact that there’s 22,000 other people here might not qualify me for isolated I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/38 "2002-11-19T00:30:32Z")
Bit of a hijack. A couple of years ago, a woman approached me on the street here in Amsterdam, holding a map. She points to particular street, and asks me where it is. I told her it was right around the corner, with a bit of a smile. She started to laugh, and said: “You gotta understand, I’m from the Northern Territories in Canada. We’re not really used to roads and maps over there!”. 🙂 It’s amazing how similar you can be to someone who’s from what is essentially another world. No other town for 500 miles. Wicked! ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/39 "2002-11-19T00:51:27Z")
Oh, there’s towns, but not how Southerners define them. Here, anyplace with more than twenty people is a town. Or if it _used_ to have more than twenty people in it. 😃 'Minds me of the elder who visited Inuvik just after the stoplight was installed. Saw a buncha cars lined up in the road, stopped, waited a sec, then drove around 'em. What’s a traffic light? You mean there’s _traffic_? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007/40 "2002-11-19T01:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > \*\*Just wondering… > It seems like the majority of Dopers are from larger urban areas (I may be wrong) but who is really “out there”…in the tundra, in the middle of “nowhere”… > > It would be interesting to hear where you all are. \*\* Is Isle of Man - UK isolated enough? The only doper on the landmass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-most-isolated-doper/137007.md?page=3)