"Unexpected Bonus of Having Pokefriends from Abroad: Trading Distance for Mons Hatched from Friendship Eggs"

#PokemonGO: Not sure if this is common knowledge yet, but my boyfriend and I just realized that a friendship egg's origin location is the pokestop or gym that the friend's gift came from.One of our friends is from another state, and when we hatch a friendship egg from him, I can trade the resulting pokemon with someone local for the appropriately large amount of trade distance.Example: I am in Oregon and get a gift from my friend in Arizona, and it comes with a friendship egg. I hatch the egg and get a Alolan sandshrew - the sandshrew says it's from Arizona. I trade it here in Portland with a local friend, and we get about 1,500 kilometers of trade distance for the trade, because the pokemon originated that far from where I currently am.In other words, at the end of the day, I get lots of trade distance with no travelling required from anyone, which gets me that much closer to that sweet, sweet trade distance medal.Although it's incubator-dependent, and you have closely coordinate your egg hatching and gift opening, this discovery has definitely bumped up the relevance of friendship eggs for me, since I already got decent IVs for all the Alolan pokemon that are currently available.In related news, we're from Portland, Oregon. Anyone from the east coast of the US or another country/continent want to be friends? :) via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/2NrG8ns