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Two good ones:

“The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

“More than half of Americans live within an hour of extended family” https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/18/more-than...

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If you’ve lived within 20 minutes of a friend versus 2 minutes of a friend, it’d be immediately obvious how irrelevant “only 18 miles” and “within an hour” are.

Someone 45 minutes away might as well require a flight, as far as I’m concerned

It's like that thing about radio waves. I proposed the inverse square law on friendship versus temporal distance.

I agree. You could say temporal distance out of sight squared = amount out of mind.

(I know that's not the real inverse square equation just having fun)

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