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

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

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[–] DrunkenPirate 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bet if go down to county or city level, you‘ll find differently colored areas such as cities relying on old steel, coal, textile economies. At least here in Germany I know areas where many people left their home areas in the 90ies. But that’s probably a geography lesson.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yup! And if you have the right dashboard you can usually drill down by location down to that level and even include those additional factors as an overlay. I used to do that using census and labor statistics data, and it is indeed very cool.