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I think that makes it clear that this is listing places that people have previously mentioned on social media.
Pretty inaccurate for Sunnyvale CA. Among its list of local empty spots is a restaurant that's packed every time I go to it and a park that's always filled with parents with young children, senior citizens out walking, and impromptu pickup games of soccer & volleyball. I think this is more like "Avoid Foursquare and Instagram users", which may have some value to it anyway.
Use case: finding a popular bar in a new town.
I recently asked a friend in Manhattan how people there cope with the lack of personal space. She told me that whenever she needs a break from social interaction she just eats in a restaurant by herself. There may be hundreds of others around but they'll generally sense that you don't want to be bothered.
I finally found the only spot where I could be for 30 minutes at a time, in total isolation. The New York Marble Cemetery on 2nd Avenue, in the East Village. It's a small patch of land, hidden down a narrow alleyway, behind a gate, open to the public just one day a month. It looks like nothing but a lawn surrounded by stone walls, because there are no headstones. It became my favorite day of the month, that one Sunday when I could go sit on a lawn in silence and solitude.
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Every few years my uncle takes a fishing trip in Alaska. He and two or three others are dropped off by plane and raft down a river for a week. Once a day the plane flies overhead to check up on them and at the end of the week picks them up. Other than that they never see another person.
I'm curious - wouldn't it be cheaper to check in with a sat phone daily, rather than having a bush pilot do a flyover?
I recently asked a friend in Manhattan how people there cope with the lack of personal space. She told me that whenever she needs a break from social interaction she just eats in a restaurant by herself. There may be hundreds of others around but they'll generally sense that you don't want to be bothered.
I just left New York after 12 years. One day, while I still lived there, I decided to see if there was anywhere I could be in Manhattan without seeing another human being in my field of vision. It took me several weeks of exploring possibilities, none of which were successful. Even Central Park didn't work, there was always someone wandering by, no matter how remote the spot. I finally found the only spot where I cou…
If you can deal wih maybe 20 people, a rafting trip on the Tamur in Nepal is the closest I have come to absolutely "no one else here". No wifi. No electricity. A couple of nights with only the group and a large bonfire.
Plenty of places in the world you can get in a car, drive out somewhere, and be completely alone.
Needs Kilometres, Miles are meaningless to me
I recently asked a friend in Manhattan how people there cope with the lack of personal space. She told me that whenever she needs a break from social interaction she just eats in a restaurant by herself. There may be hundreds of others around but they'll generally sense that you don't want to be bothered.
I like late-night park walks. Very relaxing, very few people.
No people visible, but people in some of the factories and the very occasional jogger on the towpaths so not total isolation.