Quick survey for those in the US - please help me test out an interesting theory

[swandiverpatt]

1. 1 mile
2. Florida
3. Indiana

 

[Toad_Passenger]

1- Grocery Store = 2 miles (5 minutes depending on traffic)
2 - I live in Pennsylvania
3 - Pennsylvania, my whole life.

 

[kendall]

1. 8 miles (10 minutes)
2. Michigan
3. Michigan

 

[waltsgirl]

closest grocery store 2 min away
live in ohio
grew up in ohio

 

[jsmith]

closest is about a mile and a half-the one i shop at 5 miles
Colorado
the Rocky Mountain west-all my life.

 

[BELLE1109]

1. there are 4 within about 5 mins
2. MA
3. MA

 

[imabrat]

1 - How far is the closest grocery store from your house? 5-10 minutes driving time
2 - What state do lyou live in (if you are not comfortable posting this information, you can just give the part of the county you live in) PA
3 - What state or part of the country have you lived in for most of your life? PA/NJ/NY

 

[luvsJack]

My DD read/heard something rather interesting and I though the DIS would be a great place to test it out. Please answer the following questions WITHOUT reading any of the responses first. This is the one time it is a GOOD thing to poast before reading all the replies. Once enough people have replied, I'll come back with the hypothesis and whether or not it seems to have proven correct:

1 - How far is the closest grocery store from your house?
2 - What state do lyou live in (if you are not comfortable posting this information, you can just give the part of the county you live in)
3 - What state or part of the country have you lived in for most of your life?

Thanks!

1. About 20 minutes
2. Mississippi
3. The south

 

[Luv2Scrap]

1 - 5 miles
2 - Minnesota
3 - Minnesota

 

[shortbun]

less than 1 mile, Ohio, central Ohio

 

[minniecarousel]

1 - one mile
2 - California
3 - California

 

[englishteacha]

1 - How far is the closest grocery store from your house? Full service grocery is 2.5 miles away.

2 - What state do you live in? Maine

3 - What state or part of the country have you lived in for most of your life? Maine, but I live 2.5 hours from where I grew up.

 

[Kewz1]

2 minutes
Alabama
Southeast

Kristen

 

[Carly_Roach]

That explains it! LOL!! I measure my commute in minutes because I have to be there on time. However, if it's just going to the store, library, post office, etc, I don't really care how long it takes me to get there, just how far I have to drive.

Nice one!

 

[pyrxtc]

Carly, you are close. The theory is that people from the south respond in minutes, while northerners respond in miles. We really need more responses from Southerners! Also, I thought it was interesting one poster responded both ways. BTW, I am from the south and always refer to distances in terms of time even if I have to qualify it (ie - 30 minutes with no traffic 45 minutes during rush hour).

I don't know anyone I grew up with that gives distance in miles, it's always in time.

 

[Carly_Roach]

I don't know anyone I grew up with that gives distance in miles, it's always in time.

Everyone I grew up with gives miles. Or points to a place on their hand when you ask where they're from.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I don't know anyone I grew up with that gives distance in miles, it's always in time.

Which is funny since "time" is not a unit of distance.

 

[msjprincess]

1. 5 minutes
2. New York
3. New York

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

1. Less than 1/2 mile, maybe 1 or 2 minute drive door to door. (Next closest is probably only another 1/2 mile! Maybe a 4 minute drive.)
2. NJ
3. NJ

 

[JVL1018]

1 - How far is the closest grocery store from your house?
2 - What state do lyou live in (if you are not comfortable posting this information, you can just give the part of the county you live in)
3 - What state or part of the country have you lived in for most of your life?

Thanks!

1. 4 blocks
2.NJ
3.NJ(suburb of NYC)

ETA: If it's not within a few blocks, I give it in time, because I am bad at figuring out how many miles there are.
If you asked me how far away the mall I go to normally is, I'd say 10 minutes.
I have no clue how many miles away it is.