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Are Denver and SLC considered remote? My own city is about at sea level, but by car the next closest cities are 3 hours to the north, 6 hours to the east, and 9
by irrational 3y ago
Are Denver and SLC considered remote? My own city is about at sea level, but by car the next closest cities are 3 hours to the north, 6 hours to the east, and 9 hours to the south. I’d say we are more remote, despite being at a much lower elevation.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoDenver and SLC are reasonably big cities. If you need, for example, a big-city childrens' hospital, they have them. Then you start to drive out of town, and there is N O T H I N G. I mean, from SLC, there's Ogden and Provo, maybe Park City. From Denver, there's Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. Once you get past those, it's a long way to the next anywhere. So are they isolated? Depends on how you define isolation. Does that particular kind of isolation affect depression and/or suicide? No clue.
- foogazi 3y agoMaybe isolation would be another variable that correlates to extreme altitude regions
- dboreham 3y agoI live in that "long way to anywhere" zone (a day's drive from both Salt Lake and Denver). Lots of suicide here (annual 41 deaths by suicide per 100,000 people).
- irrational 3y agoThen it would be interesting to compare those cities to my own. If you leave the metro area, there is basically nothing in any direction for many hundreds of miles. But our elevation is at sea level instead of elevated.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoI think he is equating remote and rural. Essentially, not as much human contact, more separation from the world, and lack of socialization.