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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by hateful »

asow92 wrote: post #67

I would be curious to see the split between upstate and downstate New York. They might as well be different states.

Long Island, also. Before remote work was more popular, it was very difficult to search for jobs on Long Island in the past. If you put "New York" you get NYC. If you put "50 miles" you get Connecticut.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by hunter321 »

hammock wrote: post #56
capableweb wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think there is any way of getting the stats on where people live automatically. At most they would probably be able to get most commonly used locations, as a IP belongs to a location, but that doesn't mean that the user lives there (or even that the user is physically around there [VPNs], but probably usually right).

IP data would be close enough to the actual aggregate proportions

Given how many people browse HN at work it would be super skewed.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by capableweb »

phkahler wrote: post #85
mothsonasloth wrote: post #15

Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.

China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by jakub_g »

Avshalom wrote: post #83
hycaria wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which browser?

Firefox. it used to actually default to quick searching anything you typed (with / quick searching only links) but now you have to fiddle with an option for that. ETA: in the spirit of the thread: I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. Which I've said before.

There's also ' (apostrophe) for "quick find, in hyperlinks only". I sorely miss it when using Chrome.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by andrewxdiamond »

mjmasn wrote: post #81
andrewxdiamond wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, we have states that are almost 3 times as large as the entire UK. If the pollster listed every region the size of Wales, this would be a very long list

Wales and Scotland are countries...

Do you mean to say that referring to countries as regions is incorrect? I thought “region” was a pretty generic term for geographic area, regardless of political boundaries

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by paxys »

culi wrote: post #57
sigil wrote: post #49

There were similar polls in 2013. We could compare against those to measure tech dispersal over the last decade! - "Poll: Where are you currently living?" (Countries, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582647 - "Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?" (US states, 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222370

I'd like to see these votes divided by the total population of each place

If the goal of the poll is to determine where HN users/the tech industry is concentrated, whether the overall population in those areas is high or not doesn't really matter.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by munk-a »

jessriedel wrote: post #70
munk-a wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also - Canada is a monolith, at least break out Quebec!

Canada is smaller than California.

By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California, by culture I'd consider Canada to have a few much more distinct areas than California (comparing Toronto vs. Vancouver vs. Calgary the distinctions are pretty close to the range you'd get across the whole of California by my opinion - with Quebec being radically different... Quebec is less like Vancouver than Texas or Mississippi is like California). By population there's only a really narrow difference between the two - so I really don't agree with that assessment.

Also, as a former Vermonter please don't you dare call me a New Hampshirite - but for a survey like this you can probably lump everything from Philly to Bangor into one chunk.

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