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What's the best way to switch the home city?
I've rented a place in France for a few months and will be returning to London periodically.
I entered my trip details for my journey here and put a return date that was approximate to when I'm likely to be going back to London, since I can't enter a single legged journey.
I've now changed my home city to my current location so that any trips I do within France, Spain or Italy can be done with reference to where I currently am.
However my profile is showing both a trip and my home city as the same destination and my returning to London is not acknowledged. I'm thinking I should create a new trip to London, so it displays that as a future trip, but am not sure if this is the correct thing to do?
Overall thing seem a bit confused and I'm wondering what is the correct way of handling the situation when you switch cities, so that carbon emmissions are correctly calculated? i.e. you didn't magic yourself to the new destination, so you do need to enter it, but you're not necessarily going back or, if you are, it is as a dedicated trip at some point in the future, rather than something that's attached to your leaving your old home city.
I hope that my explanation and question makes sense!
James
I entered my trip details for my journey here and put a return date that was approximate to when I'm likely to be going back to London, since I can't enter a single legged journey.
I've now changed my home city to my current location so that any trips I do within France, Spain or Italy can be done with reference to where I currently am.
However my profile is showing both a trip and my home city as the same destination and my returning to London is not acknowledged. I'm thinking I should create a new trip to London, so it displays that as a future trip, but am not sure if this is the correct thing to do?
Overall thing seem a bit confused and I'm wondering what is the correct way of handling the situation when you switch cities, so that carbon emmissions are correctly calculated? i.e. you didn't magic yourself to the new destination, so you do need to enter it, but you're not necessarily going back or, if you are, it is as a dedicated trip at some point in the future, rather than something that's attached to your leaving your old home city.
I hope that my explanation and question makes sense!
James
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Inappropriate?Hi James - on the whole, we'd recommend that you don't change your home city on Dopplr unless it's an 'open-ended' arrangement - i.e. you're not certain of the date it will change again.
In your case we'd recommend that you put you time in France as a long trip, as you said you did originally (with the approximate return date) and then add your other trips from your base in France as normal.
On Dopplr, a trip that happens to be enclosed in another trip is implicitly from where you happen to be at the time, so we should do the right thing, both in terms of coincidences and carbon calculation.
We're planning some extra functionality around moving home shortly, and we'll aim to be clear about this in the interface in future. Sorry for any confusion we've caused.
I’m hoping this clears the confusion!
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Inappropriate?Hi Matt, thanks for getting back to me and clarifying how to deal with my situation. I'll switch back my home city as you've suggested.
I’m thankful
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