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Old Posted Jul 19, 2010, 1:29 AM
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150 miles?!

I can leave the country, cross two others and enter the fourth!
Over 50 million people live in that kind of radius from where I live, which is a small 200,000 city (470,000 metro/"MSA").
Whoop de do. Good for you (I suppose).

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Nice research, but 150 miles seems a bit too generous to be of practical use. As has been commented, you would capture the most population when you center in between NYC and Philly and not when centered on NYC itself which should be the baseline for any comparison imo.
The research I did can be done with any radius. I just chose to show the 150 mile radius here.

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Seems a bit engineered to generate a certain result like this...
NO. That would be petty - something like maybe you would do.

Last edited by SHiRO; Jul 19, 2010 at 6:27 PM.
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