Does Google's '2-hour driving time' service area rule still apply if the cities are in a different state?

[Syed Amir]

My base of operations is in Delaware, and I also serve parts of Maryland. While some of these Maryland cities are geographically very close and well within the 2-hour driving time, they are in a different state.

 

[JoyHawkins]

You have nothing to worry about

 

[JS Girard]

Enforcement is lax at best anyway (though I do believe a ridiculously large service area can have negatve ranking impact). Once a client accidentally created a trans-Atlantic service area due to homonyms and it was SUCH a hassle to actually get rid of it (the thread is somewhere on the forum).

We have clients constantly putting bonkers service areas on their profiles, and I believe the only time we've ever had true issues from support was during direct calls for validation or revalidation process. The suspensions/revalidation were triggered by other issues, I should add.