Most people are found in just couple of locations at any time, and don't go beyond few miles of home

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/science/05mobile.html?ref=technology

by ideas101 • 18 years ago

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ideas101• 18 years ago

this is so true:

working people on weekdays: home and work place

students : home and school

on saturday's (day): home and grocerry store (in evenings) : movie/night clubs or home

sundays: home and church

popat• 18 years ago

home-makers: home and home & shopping and shopping & internet and internet :-)

doctors: hospital and hospital and hospitals :-)

insurance agent: home, office, home, office and home (all homes are other people's home) :-)

bloggers: home and coffee shops and library and barnes & noble :-)

taxi driver: no home; only taxi :-)

babul• 18 years ago

...but the nice thing about having a web-based business is you can work anywhere (that has internet), even travel the world without having to stop working if you so want.

josefresco• 18 years ago

Would like to see data from the US, as the EU is generally much smaller (per nation) and doesn't have the same "open frontiers" mentality the US does.

There's a reason we have so many cars (er SUV's) and roads here.

jonknee• 18 years ago

The distances in the US might be larger, but the pattern similar. Most people go between home and work. And then other trips are similar--shop at the same stores, go out at the same restaurants, etc. Most weeks I don't leave a three mile radius.

gills2• 18 years ago

Now if only we would get out of our SUVs and talk to each other, real communities could form...

asdflkj2• 18 years ago

And why would that be a good thing? How would these "real" communities be superior to our current "unreal" ones?

stcredzero2• 18 years ago

See Kunstler's "Places not worth caring about." This is worth seeing because of his stunning observations about how distorted our surroundings have become. He gets into a rant, but he's spot on! (Except where it comes to the "end of cheap oil.")

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/121

I love sitting in courtyards and squares in my visits to places in Europe. I loved sitting in the courtyard of the Student Union in graduate school. I loved sitting in a cafe on Ludlow Avenue in Cincinnati, which by US standards, is a very European street in that town. It's relaxing. You can meet people by accident and find yourself invited to dinner or chat with old friends. Sometimes, you even get laid.

Maybe you can do all of those things online. I find the interpersonal bandwidth and the quality of the experience superior in real life.

A lot of people may find this sort of experience foreign in the US. In the US, the rampant use of the automobile has caused the loss of much of our public space. Now, it seems like all we know how to build are public spaces where no one normally wants to be. We have to entice people there with some event. There are places that are conducive to community, however, where people are actually drawn to in order to be together. Places near where people live, that you don't need to pay to get into.

gills2• 18 years ago

I wasn't bashing on virtual communities. The discussions here are more interesting than the ones with my neighbors. I just think it's good to know who lives on my street, and the folks I don't know are the ones who drive in and out of the garage in the SUV and never say hello. It's their right to do so, but I think it weakens the community.

jfoutz• 18 years ago

This is unbelievably creepy. First, i wonder about the ethics of scientists that do the study overseas because it's illegal here... It seems like the moral equivalent of waterboarding.

Second, no data... this is no better than someone saying jesus loves you. Maybe true, maybe not, but no actual knowledge is produced.

This article is the opposite of hacker news.

dazzawazza• 18 years ago

erm, I'm only ever found in _one_ location at any time and that location is here, not over there.

Most people are found in just couple of locations at any time, and don't go beyond few miles of home

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