By the looks of it, it's 30% to NYC, 30% to Texas, and 30% to California. So 10% for literally everywhere else in the US. That's gotta be close, right?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd totally get that for polling people outside of North America. It's just shocking to see it from people who have probably been to NYC or at least another major metro area -- which would instantly falsify a 30% number for NYC.

[+] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Most of us don’t ever make enough money to travel this country’s hard-to-imagine-how-big-it-actually-is vastness, or even enough to leave our hometowns for longer than a couple days before financial woes start nipping at the mind, if not worse.

This is completely contradicted by the data:

"The average American has visited 16 states besides the one where they currently live, a new YouGov survey finds. Older Americans are likelier to have visited more states than younger Americans. 32% of Americans 65 or older say they've visited at least 30 states [. . .]" link

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 months ago

The working poor don’t participate in yougov that much.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

Sitcoms fucked us up

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I’m guessing these same people do know roughly the total population of the US. And are bad at math in general. That would mean 100 million people live in NYC.