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Originally Posted by someone123
Distance of course should really be "cost of travel", some combination of time and money required. This depends on the transportation network. A highway expands close areas while water is generally more expensive and slower to traverse.
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Yeah, obviously. "As the crow flies" is pretty much irrelevant.
I recall that one time we were looking online for an apartment to rent in Contrecoeur, QC for a couple months - for a contract we had at that town's big steel mill - and I had them listed by proximity on the classifieds website... found one in the earliest listings that was 5 km away... pictures looked great, price too... but in Lavaltrie. What a stupid flaw in the way the site worked, and so easy to fix - just have your distance-calculating software go with driving directions instead!
(for those you don't know - that other town 5 km away is across the St. Lawrence and the closest bridges on either side are pretty far away, to the point that a huge chunk of Southern Quebec is actually closer than this apartment "5 km away" was)
In that map, the Upper North Shore triangle the color of Fredericton is actually squarely in Quebec City's catchment area... same thing with the Lower North Shore that "belongs" to Moncton in the map.
And that Saguenay triangle in the Lower St. Lawrence is Quebec City's too. (Though people there might go no further than Lévis for "bigger city" shopping... which is itself >100k
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