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Poll: Where are you currently living in the US?

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Drilling down from the poll on current location to current location for the US. Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583772

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I live in:

[ ] SF / Bay Area

[ ] New York City

[ ] Seattle/Redmond area

[ ] Random city in Michigan

[ ] First house to the left after you run into the cow

[ ] Vegas, baby!

[ ] Somewhere on the coast

[ ] Somewhere not on the coast

[ ] Not in the US

Changed it to Michigan rather than Ann Arbor, although I realise this is still pretty arbitrary.

Yeah. As a European, I had to look the city up. Heck, seeing it only has 100k souls or so, I'd wager most US natives can't place it on a map either.

I see we are converging on "where do you live in the Bay Area", which is what I was disappointed the original poll was not.

Suggest someone actually in the bay area starts a poll at a sensible time for pacific time people.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

You will never get a useful sample from such online poll.

Boston, New York, Chicago, SF, Ann Arbor.

"Which of these does not belong in the list?"

Austin also doesn't belong, though it could belong in an expanded list.

Sorry, was just following the original suggestion and as I'm not too familiar with the US thought their must be some reason for Austin and Ann Arbor. Austin I've seen in discussions about tech centres, Ann Arbor I know nothing about.

I suggest replacing Austin with "Texas". It isn't one unified community, but neither is the SF Bay Area.

OK, done. Thanks. 3 people in Austin are now part of Texas. Hopefully not too many Texans in "other" are missing from "Texas".

I think the next major adjustment would be to add Atlanta/Florida and DC/Baltimore/Philadelphia. There are already some "other east coast", but I think this will stay on the front page long enough to get many more votes than it has now, so the mixup will become smaller as votes come in.

Edit: I'd also make Michigan into "Michigan/Ohio/Pittsburgh", add "Mountain States (Arizona/Utah/Colorado/NM/ID)", and add Other Midwest, and Other South. Then I'd leave it alone. :)

OK I've added them, although they don't appear in order unfortunately so people might get confused. The other east coast is only about 10 at the moment.

This looks like it might have been flagged down so might need a new poll in the morning.

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Edit: OK did all of that. I think this won't make it to morning on the front page so perhaps someone else can submit a new poll based on this in the morning, maybe with some more options for SF and we can get a fuller picture.

Michigan/Ohio/Pittsburgh is a really weird grouping. 2 states from the midwest, and a city from Pennsylvania. I get that they're sort of geographically colocated, but there's no way Pittsburg will have more people represented on HN Indiana/Illinois/Kentucky.

Good point. I haven't been to The Great Lakes yet, so I'm not surprised my sense of the geography in that area is lacking. The closest I've been, outside of airports, is Minneapolis, St. Louis, Boston, and NYC.

Since I can't reply to your latest comment, replying here:

Nice work. Oh well, even if this poll is on its way off HN's front page, glad to help you learn the geography of the US. :)

What is the point in this poll?

No love for the Washington DC area? :(

I've lived here since I was 10, and worked mostly in Maryland. Used to work in Silver Spring MD, then Hanover MD.

Norfolk / Virginia Beach area here.

been to ODU :) but I live in Seattle now

I wonder how bias this poll is going to be by the fact that it was started at 12:30am on the West Coast, 3:30am for the East.

I'm hoping it will make it through to the morning Eastern and then be self-sustaining till the West Coast gets up. Thought it was better to post now while the worldwide poll is on the front page though the timing isn't ideal. Interesting that we've got three votes in from NY already.

Albuquerque, NM

Formerly ABQ. Now Las Cruces NM.

Born and raised in the SF Bay but not currently there, nor in the US.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Hawaii

Champaign, IL

Champaign, IL here as well.

Denver, CO

kansas city kansas

Omaha

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