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How big is your bubble?

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Drail
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So, growing up in Ontario I had, what I realize now, a small bubble. Around 50km by 50km. This past year though, I've realized that my current bubble is huge. It's somewhere around 200km by 200km if not more. When people asked me this summer where I live, my answer has been "the west kootenays" which is an entire region.

I'm curious to see how big everyone's bubble is. How far does your home turf stretch, how big is your 'close' friend network, and neighbourhood.
Sep 22 2013 2:51AM
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Aidan-G
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Well I live in NorCal and Arizona so, large
Sep 22 2013 2:55AM
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danderson.
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Sep 22 2013 2:55AM
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Sno.
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Sep 22 2013 2:56AM
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Sno.
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you beat me to it but I had the right one, so its a tie.

Sep 22 2013 2:58AM
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Anathema
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about a 40km radius
Sep 22 2013 3:15AM
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Drail
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Well I should have guessed starting a thread in nsg on a Saturday night wouldn't bring in anything but
Sep 22 2013 3:29AM
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Blake.P
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At school (boulder), probably 2 miles. At home (Seattle), probably more like 10 miles
Sep 22 2013 5:01AM
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Wizerd
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Since I'm in highschool, I'd have to say probably around 10miles x 10miles. I know a lot of people in my grade and town. And my town is relatively small
Sep 22 2013 6:53AM
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Corin
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Depends on to who. To people here in France, my home turf is the entire country of Sweden, plus a bit of Norway. But to myself, my home bubble is about 10x10km + 20x5km + 30x30km. I have three.
Sep 22 2013 7:24AM
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Nacho+
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It gets bigger for skiing doe
Sep 22 2013 10:06AM
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bakedpow
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well idk really no how to calculate it as i live in norway now. but grew up in vancouver, seattle, and bellingham. i keep in contact with people and visit all those cities frequently. so id say pretty big.
Sep 22 2013 10:16AM
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hey-dude-its-me
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blue line is to the ski hill
inside the red are places I would go on my own
work is about 65 miles in any direction of KC
Sep 22 2013 10:58AM
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gotti
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move that circle to the bottom left and you have my bubble
Sep 22 2013 12:12PM
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GayWolf420
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All of the Park City area and salt lake, So not too bad.
Sep 22 2013 12:14PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
Posts: 1014 - Karma: 439
This, the north shore is the best. And western MA because i go to school here.
Sep 22 2013 12:14PM
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Huck_Norris
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Where do you go to school?
Sep 22 2013 1:48PM
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dvx100
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entire jersey shore, and southern parts of NY.
Sep 22 2013 3:23PM
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roddy116
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farthest east i go is Osceola WI, then up north to Duluth, stretching all the way to portland, and down to denver than back up.
Sep 22 2013 3:25PM
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p-fo
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Pretty much from Canada to Hood. Close area is Seattle in the winter and Govy in the summer.
Sep 22 2013 3:32PM
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pastysmasher
Posts: 780 - Karma: 664
From the UK, have friends in Canada, US, Aus, few other places.
Sep 22 2013 3:37PM
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Mag
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Ipswich and Manchester? why did you steal England America?
Sep 22 2013 3:48PM
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DutchMastaTHC
Posts: 669 - Karma: 1,770
The English colonized America remember, and MA was one of the OG 13 colonies, so theres obviously gona me a heavy English influence.
Sep 22 2013 3:58PM
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pastysmasher
Posts: 780 - Karma: 664
Ha, most the names on that map are places in England
Sep 22 2013 4:05PM
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Rosbif
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I haven't been anywhere other than the ski slopes, this hotel (in the middle of nowhere in the Andes) and my house (200m away) in over a month and a half. Getting in a car, seeing more than 50 people at a time, and not going skiing is going to be a shock to the system!

But really my bubble is pretty big, I live in 2/3 different countries on different continents, have friends from everywhere and generally feel like a nomad more than I live in one place.
Sep 22 2013 5:13PM
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GIF
Posts: 468 - Karma: 1,279
Mine is a double bubble connected by a balloon snake, I'd say two 20 milers and a 150 to connect them
Sep 22 2013 5:18PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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umass
Sep 22 2013 6:10PM
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250r
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haha its kind of bad how rarely i even leave whistler, the occasional trip to squam or pemby, dont really go to van all that much. was a lot different when i lived in maine though.
Sep 22 2013 6:26PM
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Jeebus.
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Pretty big.
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Sep 22 2013 6:38PM
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Aaaron.
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from dc to nyc.. lol ouch
Sep 22 2013 6:52PM
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dispatchQ_main
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My basement
Sep 22 2013 7:13PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
Posts: 4573 - Karma: 14,299
still saying we should kick it and blow a bowl. Im in prescott like once a week.
Sep 22 2013 7:32PM
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Willgum
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Id say about 1.5 feet, I get uncomfortable when people get any closer to me
Sep 22 2013 7:39PM
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vailsux.com
Posts: 1769 - Karma: 440
Over 9000?! That's impossible!!!
Sep 22 2013 10:22PM
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Dwarftosser1
Posts: 2602 - Karma: 951
Most of Colorado, minus the extreme southeast and northwest
Sep 22 2013 10:29PM
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Parrish
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my college bubble
Sep 22 2013 11:35PM
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whoa-dere
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quite big
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Sep 22 2013 11:46PM
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yourthemannowdog
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I've got a bubble that extends around most of the North East, Colorado, and southern Ireland. I ran into friends from New York in Dublin at a GAA match once. It's a small world. I'm not going to confine myself to a group of friends in one part of the world. It's nice to wander sometimes and pretend that everyone is a friend.
Sep 23 2013 12:30AM
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