How frequently do you visit neighboring cities?

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by 10023

What simple fact is stated incorrectly?

do you think might it be the one that i quoted?

[mhays]

Actually that quote was pretty accurate. Could say 22,000,000 though.

[Leo the Dog]

Originally Posted by 10023

I think you're missing the point. You'll see NYers everywhere; there are close to 20 million people in the metro area. But people in all large cities go to non-urban areas nearby more often than nearby cities. That was my original argument and saying that LA or Miami are popular helps to prove the point, as neither are nearby cities but rather "destinations".

mrnyc just accused me of having a "limited view" because I didn't include LA when commenting in a thread about visiting local cities (for obvious reasons), and then said it was almost as if LA and NY were adjacent, which is of course absurd. I'm not debating that LA or CA generally are big tourist destinations, but they're certainly not the topic of the thread.

No, I got the point and agree with what you're saying. I was just adding that when/if NYers come to CA for non work related trips, they're here for a week, not a weekend.

I agree with you that the overwhelming majority stick close by to NY.

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by brickell

Probably a good time for the heat maps that Shiro posted a while ago.
https://theopolis.me/location-history-visualizer/

As for me:

Netherlands

Hometown (210,000 city/450,000 metro)

25 km west Breda (180,000/375,000) 2 times a week
30 km northeast Den Bosch (145,000/365,000) 2 times a month
35 km east Eindhoven (225,000/750,000) 2 times a month

40 km west Roosendaal (77,000) 1 or 2 times a week
50 km west Bergen op Zoom (67,000) 1 or 2 times a week


Zeeland ~100km west 2 times a week
Vlissingen/Middelburg (95,000) 1 or 2 times a week
Terneuzen (55,000) 1 or 2 times a week
Goes (38,000) 1 or 2 times a week
Zierikzee (30,000) 1 or 2 times a week


100 km north Amsterdam (825,000/2,450,000) 10 to 12 times a year (15 times including Schiphol Airport)

60 km northwest Rotterdam (625,000/2,020,000) 8 to 10 times a year

80 km northwest The Hague (515,000/1,580,000) 6 to 8 times a year

60 km north Utrecht (335,000/1,255,000) 4 to 6 times a year


95 km southeast Maastricht (125,000) 4 to 6 times a year


Belgium
5 km south 1 or 2 times a week

60 km southwest Antwerp (520,000/1,800,000) 2 times a month
100 km south Brussels (1,175,000/2,700,000) 2 to 4 times a year
110 km southwest Gent (250,000/650,000) 2 to 4 times a year


France
~200 km south, various places, 2 to 4 times a year

Germany
~80 km east, various places, 2 to 8 times a year

Luxembourg
250 km southeast Luxembourg (110,000) once a year

Spain
~1,500 km south Barcelona (1,650,000/5,000,000) 2 to 3 times a year

UK
London and Ipswich, once every couple of years, but set to increase in the near future.



Location data from my phone (last 4 months only, overseas travel not included):