You may never leave the boundary of the dome for the rest of your life.
This is an area roughly the size of North Dakota for reference and approximately 70,686 square miles. (2.27% of the contiguous United States landmass)
Only the center of the dome has to be in the US. It can expand over the ocean or into other countries.
Everyone else can come and go as they please. So no it will not turn into an apocalyptic hellscape with everyone fighting for resources or become a new sovereign territory. The area will continue to exist as it does now.
You are the only thing that the dome has control over. Weather will also continue as normal, planes can fly through just the same.
If you try to hop on a plane to leave you will be magically transported back home safely
The dome is visible only to you. Like a large glass wall. But people will know that you are unable to leave the dome.
Once you choose the center of your dome, you have 2 months to prepare before you are magically transported to a location of your choosing within the dome, if you are not already inside of its boundary. If you are already there, then you just stay wherever you are.
Where would you put the center and why?
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Copy of the original post in case of edits: You may never leave the boundary of the dome for the rest of your life.
This is an area roughly the size of North Dakota for reference and approximately 70,686 square miles. (2.27% of the contiguous United States landmass)
Only the center of the dome has to be in the US. It can expand over the ocean or into other countries.
Everyone else can come and go as they please. So no it will not turn into an apocalyptic hellscape with everyone fighting for resources or become a new sovereign territory. The area will continue to exist as it does now.
You are the only thing that the dome has control over. Weather will also continue as normal, planes can fly through just the same.
If you try to hop on a plane to leave you will be magically transported back home safely
The dome is visible only to you. Like a large glass wall. But people will know that you are unable to leave the dome.
Once you choose the center of your dome, you have 2 months to prepare before you are magically transported to a location of your choosing within the dome, if you are not already inside of its boundary. If you are already there, then you just stay wherever you are.
Where would you put the center and why?
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Nothing could induce me to live in the US, dome or otherwise.
I also love your optimism of any area in the US not turning into an apocalyptic hellscape given the current administration’s policies.
Well I already live in a large metropolitan city and plan to stay here long term, so I would just need the dome to cover that. Probably somewhere more inland though so I don’t waste half the dome on water space. It’s interesting enough here that I wouldn’t necessarily need to travel anywhere else and wouldn’t get too bored. It would be sad to never get to visit other countries like I had wanted, but I guess if I’m just being forced into this it is what it is lol
Centered on Honolulu, Hawaii, so I could easily drown myself.
I hate this. But I’d also pick an area that covers NYC, New Jersey, and Philly.
Centered on Stevenson’s Island on the Quabbin Reservoir in MA. That lets me visit NYC, Burlington VT, Portland, ME, the Cape and Islands, White/Green Mountains… a very diverse area.
You can use this tool to draw your own radius:
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Wheres the benefit?
I don’t want to live in the US. I rather kill myself.
Seattle is a great city, and the surrounding area has everything from islands, to mountains. The food is decent, and there’s an amazing music/art scene, too.
If i lay the dome right I can hit Kc, Omaha, St Louis and Okc. So thats my plan.
Nevermind, I i thought it said 250 lol.
Nope. No desire to spend the rest of my life in the US. I suppose I could plunk the centre right on the border, somewhere in the St Lawrence, but I’d still have to move.
Arizona, I’ll deal with droughts instead of earthquakes tornadoes and hurricanes
No thanks. You can’t pay me enough money to move to dumbfukistan.
I am not moving to the US even if there is a sweet dome.
Rainbow international bridge. This way I never have to step foot in the US or even leave my desk.
But why?
Probably PNW.
The center would be somewhere around Seattle so I’d have Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Victoria, Olympic Peninsula, a bunch of islands, skiing, hiking, etc.
Runner up would be Santa Clarita, CA where I’d have all of SoCal, the channel Islands, and a decent chunk of the coast up past Santa Barbara.
Drop it in northern Vermont so I can live in Montreal. I might edit this later after I look at a map.
I guess I’ll just put it in the middle of Va. It would suck not being able to visit other places, but I rarely leave Virginia as is, and most my extended family lives here, and I’d still have access to the beach, the mountains, various rivers, cities and counties
Hawaii. It sounds relaxing.
Middle of Wyoming so I can finally avoid everyone.
Youngstown NY, and I continue living in Canada and my life remains largely unchanged.
Bastrop, Texas – Allows me to see my family, have access to three metro areas (Austin, Houston, San Antonio), decent weather, lots of options for jobs and entertainment, affordable living, access to beaches along the gulf coast without losing too much space to water, good food, and no state income tax. I wouldn’t actually choose to live in Bastrop, just have that be the center of my dome so I can access as much as I want as easily as possible.
Somewhere in the middle of Oregon. I would get beaches, mountains, rivers, lakes, desert, a ton of diverse towns, beautiful landscape, and all four seasons. And amazing food and beer.
I like u/R5Jockey’s answer as No. 1. The northeast / New England just has too much good stuff crammed relatively close together compared to the west or south.
My second answer would be Scipio, Utah. It doesn’t get you to St. George, but gets you to everything around Salt Lake City (my current home), 5 national parks, all the major Utah ski resorts, most of the Southern Utah Beauty, and West Wendover (for gambling and easier access to liquor). Get alpine mountains, red rocks, 4 seasons, but some places with warmer temps. No ocean, no huge city, but plenty to do, and plenty of places to make a living.
Third option might be something like Kalamazoo, Michigan. You get Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, a tiny slice of Canada (just in case) parts of three great lakes. Maybe not the nicest camping and outdoor places in the upper midwest, but major cities, lots of culture, lots of good beer.
My house. I’m lazy
If I’d have to find a new job and housing on my own in the dome I’d honestly probably just pick a center within 150 miles of my house because that seems like a lot of hassle.
If there’s some fantastic financial incentive for me inside the dome that allows me to retire to a life of luxury without concern for my finances, that’s a different story.
I left the US for a reason.
Milan gets some good variety. Mountains and ocean.
Waaaait. So with this I can teleport from any aircraft back to my house? Oh I’m going to become the next David Blane! But with just one very specific trick.
I’m Canadian and live near the US border. So I choose to put the center of the dome right at the border crossing. That way 99% of my life remains the same.
West Cocolico Township, PA. That gives me the mid-Atlantic region from northern Virginia to NYC, plus a swathe of Appalachia if I ever need to get away from populated regions.
I do not like to live in USA so I place no dome.
LA/OC/SB
Youngstown, NY. This way I get the largest area in Canada and can avoid having to live in the US at all.
Ogdensburg, NY.
I don’t have to move. I have several major cities, a world class mountain biking destination, and the best east coast skiing available.
100 miles north of Los Angeles. I hate California politics and the taxes but if I could never leave a 150 mile bubble, this spot pretty much offers everything I would ever want to do.
Beaches of SoCal, skiing at Mammoth, golf in Palm Springs.
Vegas.
Basically everything would come to me throughout the year.
Idc about traveling. Assuming I have a home and a job I’m good. Will I ever get to see Niagara Falls? No. But that means nothing to me.
I would place it here
5023 US-89
Babb, MT 59411 or as far north of here as possible (straight north not of to the sides) with still being in the states
This my family does not need to travel too far to see me as I don’t live in the states
Not moving. I’m so fucking tired of moving.
I will have access to Goblin Valley state park, Wendover, Salt Lake City, Dinosaur National Monument and Vernal Utah, the southeast corner of Idaho, and the southwest corner of Wyoming. I won’t have to find new doctors and will maintain access to an academic healthcare system. I’ll have access to a variety of the arts, symphony, opera, museums. I’ll have access to a variety of outdoor recreation and state parks, with one national park. I’ll have access to two states with recreational cannibis.
I’ve already chosen a really fucking fabulous place to live.
North Bay in California. The same 300 mile radius covers like 3 major Metropolitain cities, A lot of national parks and outdoor areas as well as being a tech center. If you pick the right point, you can cover the mountains in the east and the ocean in the west.
I choose a bit southeast of Allentown, PA. Gets me cities of NYC, Philly, DC, Baltimore, all the way up to New Haven. There are beaches, mountains, and plenty of rural areas. About 20% of the country lives in the area, so I could see a lot of people and have plenty to do.
Placerville, CA.
That gets me San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Reno, Lassen National Park and Yosemite National Park. Some of the best cities plus some of the best natural landscapes in the world. Frikken awesome.
The center will be somewhere in the middle of Michigan. Mt. Pleasant, Clare, thereabouts.
Kihei HI
Covers me for most of Hawaii and I really wouldn’t want to leave anyway!
I just ran this through a map myself, and my centrepoint wound up in Swanzey, NH. That covers every passenger railroad in New England, plus gets me out as far as Utica, NY if I wanted to. Lived here a few years now and, if it had to stay put anywhere and not go home to the UK again, I think this would do me nicely.
I mean, if there’s no financial benefit I have to put it where I have access to work so probably just around Tulsa lmao
Probably somewhere in Vermont so I could live in Montreal and travel to Ottawa and Quebec City occasionally. Fuck the US.
If I do Crested Butte, CO it covers all of the best part of the state, where my parents live, and where I currently live.
Pacific Northwest north of Seattle.
I get Vancouver Seattle , the San Juan Islands, the Olympic National park and peninsula and North Cascades national park.
I’d place the center of the dome somewhere around US97, as close to the Canadian border as possible. That would leave me about 75 mile radius in Canada to roam around. Kelowna sounds like a nice place to live in.
Crested Butte Colorado.
So we don’t get anything good or an incentive to go live in this restrictive dome? I’d chose no.
Conway Massachusetts, USA