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>but don't really think about dating outside their city, especially given the increase in mobility and remote work.

I had an idea for a dating App this morning (I have like 1000 business related ideas a week--what a fking nightmare) and your app would make sense for what I had conceived... but I digress: you say cities and it appears to me that you overlook the suburbs where Millions and millions live and everyone drives.

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Great point! We could do a population radius for 1 hour driving.

r= 1 hour driving range @ 60 miles per hour (no red lights!) area = 3.14* r^2 = 11,304 sq mile US density = 92 people per sq mile area * population density => 11,304 m2 * 92/m2 = 1,039,968 people

This is still less than the population of NYC which is 8,398,748. With this calculation, remote dating would give an improvement of 3146%.

Density source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-200-years-of-u-...

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