《爱是盲目的》节目主持人解释了为什么他们有时会选不住在同一个城市的人

Dating is hard enough under normal circumstances. Add in the conceit behind Love Is Blind — where romantic hopefuls meet, fall in love, and get engaged without ever seeing each other, and then get married only four weeks later — and it gets that much more difficult to find your happily ever after. So why add in long-distance to the many other obstacles singles are already facing?!
在正常情况下约会已经够难的了。再加上爱情盲目背后的自负 — 浪漫的希望之星在没有见过对方的情况下相遇、相爱、订婚，然后仅仅四周后就结婚了——从那以后，要找到幸福的伴侣就变得更加困难了。那么，为什么要在单打已经面临的许多其他障碍的基础上再加上长距离呢？！

Love Is Blind sometimes casts people who live in a different state despite each season being set in a specific city, as we saw in the Seattle-set season 4 where two guys, Kwame and Brett, were actually from Portland, Ore. That resulted in two of last season's relationships being long-distance, which was a major factor those couples had to consider before saying "I do" in the finale (both couples got married, and one person in each ended up moving to where their spouse lived).
《爱是盲目的》有时会让人们生活在不同的州，尽管每一季都以特定的城市为背景，就像我们在西雅图的第四季中看到的那样，两个家伙，夸梅和布雷特，实际上来自俄勒冈州的波特兰。这导致了上一季的两段恋情是异地恋，这是这些夫妇在结局中说“我愿意”之前必须考虑的一个主要因素（两对夫妇都结婚了，每对夫妇中有一个人最终搬到了他们配偶居住的地方）。

As Netflix's hit reality dating experiment gears up to launch a new season on Friday, showrunner Chris Coelen is finally answering the burning question of why they sometimes cast people who don't live in the same place.
随着网飞的热门真人约会实验准备在周五推出新一季，节目主持人克里斯·科伦终于回答了一个紧迫的问题，即为什么他们有时会选不住在同一个地方的人。

"It's kind of an accident," he admits to EW. "We always want the casting pool to be as big as possible, because we want tomallow people to cast themselves, basically. You put people in the pod and then they figure it out. They figure out who they connect with or who they don't, and they control their stories, their destinies."
“这有点意外，”他向EW承认。“我们总是希望选角池尽可能大，因为我们希望基本上允许人们自己选角。你把人们放在吊舱里，然后他们想办法。他们想办法与谁联系或不联系，他们控制自己的故事和命运。”

While multiple past contestants have dealt with the issue of long-distance due to future plans/life decisions, Coelen says that it was only season 4 in which they cast people who already lived in a different state. "That is the only time that has happened — we did have two couples who lived in different cities, which were Seattle and Portland, and we felt going into it that Portland and Seattle are close enough," he says. "I think it's like a two-hour drive or something, which, if you're like me and you live in Los Angeles, that's like your next-door neighbor."
虽然过去的多位参赛者都曾因未来的计划/生活决定而处理过远距离的问题，但Coelen表示，他们只是在第四季中选了一些已经生活在不同州的人。他说：“这是唯一一次发生这种情况——我们确实有两对夫妇住在不同的城市，分别是西雅图和波特兰，我们觉得波特兰和西雅图足够近。”。“我觉得这就像两个小时的车程，如果你像我一样住在洛杉矶，那就像你的隔壁邻居。”

He laughs before continuing, "So it doesn't seem too far if you found the love of your life to navigate it. We felt like that was a reasonable distance, sort of a fairly small regional casting vs. somebody who lived across the country."
他笑了笑，然后继续说道：“所以，如果你找到了你一生的挚爱来驾驭它，似乎不会太远。我们觉得这是一个合理的距离，有点像是一个相当小的地区选角，而不是一个生活在全国各地的人。”

As for how they decide where to move the pods next, like Houston in season 5, Coelen says their only requirement is that it's a large city.
至于他们如何决定下一步将吊舱移到哪里，就像第五季中的休斯顿一样，科伦说，他们唯一的要求是这是一个大城市。

"We like to be in places that have a big enough regional population that we can cast a really wide net and try to get people who haven't run into each other hanging out in the one bar in town, or they've all run into each other on a dating app," he explains. "We want a big enough diversity of people, so we tend to go for bigger metropolitan areas just because you find more people there."
他解释道：“我们喜欢呆在地区人口足够多的地方，这样我们就可以撒下一张非常大的网，试图让那些没有偶遇的人在镇上的一家酒吧里闲逛，或者他们都在约会应用程序上偶遇过。”。“我们想要足够多的人，所以我们倾向于选择更大的大都市地区，因为那里有更多的人。”

The first four episodes of Love Is Blind season 5 premieres Friday, followed by new episodes on Fridays leading up to the Oct. 13 finale.
《爱是盲目的》第五季的前四集将于周五首播，随后将于周五播出新剧集，直至10月13日的大结局。