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I think by "theater" the OP was implying professional theatre. Lots of small towns have theater, but professional theatre is a much higher bar.

In my case, my old workplace in Ottawa, Canada had a "time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile. Sadly, the professional Opera company in Ottawa went bankrupt so we only have amateur Opera now, but we do get regular professional Broadway productions so it still counts.

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>"time to moose" of about 5 miles and a "time to theatre" of about 1/2 a mile.

Unit of measure error: unit specified it time, unit supplied is distance

:P

Not sure how it is in Ottawa but here in the US Midwest distances are frequently measured in units of time. I might say I'm an hour from Green Bay or two hours from Madison, though I don't remember the actual mileage. That said, it usually only applies to distances over 20 minutes (between 7 and 25 miles, depending on speed limits).

That practice is pretty widespread in Canada. Ever since metrification nobody is really sure whether the person they're talking to is more comfortable with miles or kilometres. So they just use time.

When I was very young in Canada, before the metric changeover, it was still common to measure distance with time.

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