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How is the latest time for Channukah candles determined?

one may light Channukah candles ad shetichle regel min hashuk, until people stop walking through the market because after that there would be no pirsumei nisa outside of the household (since there are no people who would see the candles).
If so, is this a subjective time that varies based on location? If I live in NYC, when there are always people on the streets, would the time be later? And in the woods, or in a house in a walled off compound where one can be sure that there would be no people at all, how is the time determined?
How is the talmudic concept reckoned -- by a standard or by local reality?

One may light Channukah candles _ad shetichle regel min hashuk_, until people stop walking through the market, because after that there would be no _pirsumei nisa_, advertisement of the miracle, outside of the household (since there are no people who would see the candles).
If so, is this a subjective time that varies based on location? If I live in New York City, where there are always people on the streets, would the time be later? And in the woods, or in a house in a walled off compound where one can be sure that there would be no people at all, how is the time determined?
How is the talmudic concept reckoned -- by a standard or by local reality?

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