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The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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Edit: source with some more info

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not the point.

So, if you take new York State as an example. If the average for the state is 18 miles (I can't see the post when replying to a comment in this app, so that's just using the same number as an example), do the cities skew that?

Like, if NYC and Albany have their own average of five miles, but people outside cities average 25 (or whatever it would be, I'm not doing math for this lol), that's an interesting thing.

That's what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Just follow the links in the article and check the study?

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2011/201130/201130pap.pdf