Its Boston location alone, a six-hour plane ride away, would have been a turnoff.
For example, poor people stay in drought-hit villages when the city is just a bus ride away.
If San Diego-based start-up SeaCode has its way, cheap code could be just a ferry ride away.
Solution: Narita City, a short ride away and a microcosm of a bygone Land of the Rising Sun.
There was no road to Olymbos - the rest of the island remained a long, steep hike down to the shore and a boat ride away.
But for parents in other parts of the country, the teachable moment, more than just a subway ride away, is a bit more abstract.
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And if that passivity catches up with them, Carlin's satellite-linked EKG machine or a robotic catheterization lab might be just a 20-minute mule ride away.
Another one, who was a plane ride away, offered to fly in for an interview in case her distance would affect her chances of being hired.
The historical, architectural treasure-trove of Old Goa, filled with the remnants of a city that once rivalled Rome, are a quick rickshaw or moped ride away.
He is going to do Engineering, and even though it is only a bus ride away, I know that I will lose him when he goes.
Once at Pakret, follow the crowds to the main road and take a motorcycle taxi to the Wat Sanam Neua temple (24 Moo 3 Chaengwattana Road), a short 10-baht ride away.
That's not the situation for the majority of orphanage children around the world, who don't have caring grandparents or aunts and uncles a short walk or bike ride away.
Zanzibar Island, visible on clear days across the channel, is a short flight or boat ride away, and Saadani National Park, a two-hour's drive south, makes for an easy overnight excursion.
The rolling hills around the Irish capital are endowed with an array of easily accessible day trips, from charming coastal villages to breathtaking mountain scenery, all just a car or train ride away.
Spotlighting the current restaurant trend, Italian, Pilu at Freshwater is a new restaurant a half-hour ferry ride away from downtown on Sydney's north shore, featuring Sardinian cuisine and views onto Freshwater Beach.
He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycle ride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.
Dawn decided to appeal to her second choice school, Cheam High School, which is a bus ride away but the school Catherine most wanted to attend because many of her friends had a place.
The island of Sicily has some sensational coastlines of its own, but slip across to the seven Aeolian islands a short boat ride away and you are into otherworldly territory, part of a jagged volcanic ridge.
And for those who need more privacy, the hotel has recently opened a four bedroom villa, the Hideaway, a five minute private launch ride away on the island of Therasia, with the same cool, white stone interiors punctuated by lavender woven fabrics as the cave houses up above along with a dedicated staff.
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Rodeo Drive--by-the-Sea, are a safe car ride's distance away--the teenagers are few and the only music in spring belongs to birds.
Classes were held in the original buildings, several massive concrete units known collectively as the Cellblock, a bike ride or long walk away from the dorms, and the flow of students back and forth in tribal swarms seemed part of the architecture of the place.
All I could think about for the rest of my ride was keeping my cuffs away from my spokes.
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Pouring rain kept me away from a nice ride-and-drive opportunity with the New York Power Authority, which wanted to showcase a healthy and growing fleet, and Monday I made it down to Times Square to take a spin in the green cars that, as of next week will be available in the Connect by Hertz car-sharing fleets.
So why not have it here, where he could drive away and leave me to hitch a ride back into town?
This will be a long ride to Baton Rouge -- only 80 miles away -- but might as well be half a solar system tonight.
However, I made up for it later with a wild ATV ride through a rushing mountain river that had washed away our road earlier that morning.
The man said he looked away to hasten the horses as he intended asking her to ride in his cart.
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