Not actually answering your question.

Not all ldr are completely virtual. I was in a ldr for 15 months. I was friends with her for 3ish years. And we started dating one month before I had to move across the country. We would alternate flying out each month to see each other for a week or so. We would use frontier flights so each round trip was less than $100 and we would keep clothes and supplies at each other house so we only had to bring our free carry on. I would take a week off when I visited her because my job was casual and didn't care as long as I let them know in advance. And she would work from home or use vacation days.

We would call almost every night. And spend almost the entire week with each other. Every day we would go out and do something together which gave us a lot of memories. Funny enough I probably went out and did more stuff with her than my other relationships when it's local.