What do you consider local?

[UnderTheFridge]

I’m curious to know what you would class as local? I ask because a friend who has just moved to my area asked for recommendations for local restaurants. I recommended one that’s 10 minutes drive(Among others that were closer). She said that it isn’t local because it’s in a different county/local authority area.

I live in one county but I’m close to 3 others so eat out and shop in all of them. This restaurant is closer to her than some which are in my county but she said they’re local but anything over the county border isn’t even if it’s literally 5 minutes away.

So what do you count as local? Does the distance matter more or which county/local authority area it’s in?

Apologies for the very boring question but I’m curious.

TIA

Very odd, I live on the border between England and Wales and would consider anything to be local if it's within a 15 minute drive. Regardless of what direction or country it's in.

Where I used to live was quite rural so anything in a 20 miles radius or an hour's drive was local. But now I've moved to a bigger town I would consider only the 3 miles around the outside of town is local.

10 min drive any authority/ town / area.

(more realistically this is 15 minutes though as I live rurally)

Anything within 20 minutes drive definitely and up to 30 minutes.

Anywhere within roughly a ten mile radius of where I live. That would cover three counties. Rural, so only one town.

Anywhere within a 15 min drive

I live in a village so you have to drive everywhere I guess it depends who you are talking to, a neighbour or a visitor from a long distance.
To a neighbour it would be anything within a 20 minute drive. That includes lots of villages and two market towns. A bigger town and city are just outside that and I don't consider them local.
To a visitor from another area I would include a much bigger radius.

For a restaurant anything you can get a taxi to.

Generally... anything within about 45mins

I would consider your suggestion 'local'.
10 mins is a short taxi ride the local authority boundaries are irrelevant. I live in a county council but I am a few minutes walk from a unitary authority which has my local pub in it!

My concept of local has changed depending on where I live. I grew up very rurally and my school had kids that lived up to 45 mins away in neighbouring villages and towns, so we sort of had a mentality growing up that those places were “local” even if it took 30-45mins. I live more urban now and get annoyed if my town centre doesn’t have something so I need to drive 10 mins to the next town! I get annoyed when people mention that town in recommendations (despite the fact some of it is closer than the other side of my town!) because it feels an effort to get there!

(But yes I would consider 10 mins reasonable for restaurant recommendations!)

10 minute drive would be the outskirts of ‘local’. Any further and it’s a restaurant that’s near by but not local.

*context: my nearest restaurant is 3 min walk.

I am rural, so anything within 30 - 35 minute drive is local. In my case that could be in any of four counties.

When I’ve lived in small towns, local tends to mean within the town, and in cities it’s within walking distance (so a mile, mile and a half).

For me, there's "local",
and then there's "local local."

Local local would be within a 10 minute drive.

Local would be within a 30 minute drive.

If your friend who is new to the area asked for a recommendation for a local restaurant and you gave her one that you thought was great that's a 10 minute drive away and she says that's too far? geez!
I'd be slightly annoyed.

How about this friend, you want a super local eatery? It's called your fridge.
It's always open, though the atmosphere is a bit chilly.

I live in a city so for me local is walking distance maybe 20mins max. I have restaurants less than 5mins walk so a 10 minute drive wouldn’t be local. It’s a perfectly distance to suggest for a meal though! The local authority thing seems a strange measure to me, I’d go by distance/ time taken to get there.

Local depends on what it is! I'd go further for a meal out than a post box, or example!

County borders don't affect anything - but then I pass through 3 on my 20 min drive to work....

20 minutes drive

10 minutes drive would definitely count as a local restaurant here, and would also potentially be in a different county.

In other contexts I’d probably consider local to be “something in one of the two nearest towns”, or “nearest X” - so the distance depends on what’s around. The local supermarket is 10 minutes’ drive, but the local cinema is 30 minutes’ drive (and I would never describe the supermarket near the cinema as “local”).

Your friend is bonkers!

I’m rural and my local town is about an 8 minute drive. The next biggest town with more shops and restaurants is a 30 minute drive away. I’ve occasionally eaten out there but I hate driving back home when I’ve eaten a big meal in the evening.

However, I live in the largest (geographically) county in Ireland so if local going by your friend’s logic, could easily be a 2.5hr drive from me and still be in the same county. Which is obviously nonsense 😂

If urban, something you can walk to, especially in the summer.

A,local walk is anything within 30 minutes of my home. A local drive is anything up to an hour away.

I live close to the council boundaries of Bath and North East Somerset; South Gloucestershire and Bristol (its a council as well as a city) and about 15 minutes drive from North Somerset. Although I live in the first I still consider the others as local.

Ha I’d say a 15 minute walk is local. Maybe 20 at a push! (But I live in a City and there’s probably a hundred restaurants within that!)

The same here.

If you live in a city or large town, within walking distance. If you live in the country, 15 minutes drive.