It's not that cheap...If I wanted to fly from where I am (Atlanta) to Fargo, next week it would cost me ~$700. I can fly to NYC for ~10% of that. No wonder us ND college grads can't make it back.
You gotta love spending $1,000 or so to visit North Dakota twice a year.
I think the article was based on cost of lodging or food or something. I also think North Dakota is a statistical outlier in a lot of surveys, so it always ranks at the top or bottom ... Most 85-year-olds per capita, most churches, most patricide per 100,000 people ... stuff like that.
I agree, it is an outlier, and a lot of that is good things, SAT scores, ICBM launch facilities, lack of parking meters, etc. But the point of my post was that if you include the cost of actually getting to ND from pretty much anywhere else it isn't all that cheap. No wonder people love going to Orlando... it's not just because the weather is nicer there.
Errata: I can get to NYC for about 20% of what it would cost to get to Fargo.
Or, to state it the other way around, people aren't flocking to North Dakota, so airlines can charge a bunch of money to the people that are going to go there no matter what. Airlines keep prices to popular destinations low because they have to compete with each other. If your ticket to Orlando is too much, you try another airline. If Northwest wants $700 to fly you to Minot, you'll probably still pay it.
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It's not that cheap...If I wanted to fly from where I am (Atlanta) to Fargo, next week it would cost me ~$700. I can fly to NYC for ~10% of that. No wonder us ND college grads can't make it back.
You gotta love spending $1,000 or so to visit North Dakota twice a year.
I think the article was based on cost of lodging or food or something. I also think North Dakota is a statistical outlier in a lot of surveys, so it always ranks at the top or bottom ... Most 85-year-olds per capita, most churches, most patricide per 100,000 people ... stuff like that.
(I just made the patricide thing up, by the way.)
Try $3000 once a year for a family of four.
I agree, it is an outlier, and a lot of that is good things, SAT scores, ICBM launch facilities, lack of parking meters, etc. But the point of my post was that if you include the cost of actually getting to ND from pretty much anywhere else it isn't all that cheap. No wonder people love going to Orlando... it's not just because the weather is nicer there.
Errata: I can get to NYC for about 20% of what it would cost to get to Fargo.
Or, to state it the other way around, people aren't flocking to North Dakota, so airlines can charge a bunch of money to the people that are going to go there no matter what. Airlines keep prices to popular destinations low because they have to compete with each other. If your ticket to Orlando is too much, you try another airline. If Northwest wants $700 to fly you to Minot, you'll probably still pay it.
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