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…
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. 
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?
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!
I’ll swap with you I’m close enough to Sydney and I’d rather be in Queensland.
That would be me. I live on my own planet
Damn Opal, I was about to say there’s a few Dopers that seem to be in their own world…
I’m Emotionally Isolated - does that count??
I live 100 metres off route 66… bus route 66, that is. I guess that doesn’t count…
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…
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…
No, that would be Justhink.
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.
BiblioCat -“No, that would be Justhink.”
…that’s one of 'em.
My physical form is in Metropolitan Seattle, but the jar containing my brain is on the far side of the moon. Does that count?
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.
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.
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!
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?
Is Isle of Man - UK isolated enough? The only doper on the landmass.