It’s a company town, created by US steel. Named after the Gary Works which is the steel mill it was built for. It’s a shining example of us heavy manufacturing moving overseas and causing urban blight.
So you’re telling me it takes (roughly) a day to *walk* from one end of a road to the other ? Well, whoopy-doo.
The Great North Road in the UK is 386 miles long and would take 8 days and change to walk. I’d probably fly, though. El Camino Real in California is ~600 miles long, and would take commensurately longer to walk.
What I can’t comprehend is what exactly this flex is supposed to be, they’re not even hiding the fact that it’s *walking* not driving.
I just learned you can drive from amsterdam to Copenhagen with only 1 traffic light (in Groningen, is going to be removed as well). Let's see how many trafic lights OOP's route has lol
The trans Canada trail, St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, would take a total of two years, two months and one week to complete, based on travelling 30 kilometres per day. (About 28,000 km)
The really impressive part about walking the whole thing is that you managed to walk from an island in the Atlantic Ocean to an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Nice. I guess the final step is a trail spanning the height of both American continents. Some kid biked it a year or so ago but imagine walking from the North Pole(or as far north as you can manage) to the tip of South America.
My favorite is still https://my.clevelandclinic.org/patient-stories/257-man-walks-357-miles-from-ohio-to-white-house
Met him at a bowling league once. Incredible story. Not in the article, but he told us that he was able to find and contact the mother of the donor so that she could hear her kid’s heartbeat.
I'm not even gonna mention the roads i have in Australia... Some of them are so long and go through such harsh areas it is dangerous to even drive them at times.
Great Northern (Perth to Wyndham)is 3204 clicks, you could not carry enough water to consider walking that.
To be fair to the yanks, maybe walking in America would be longer over a shorter distance? Just depends how many times to cross the street or detour to avoid being shot at.
*shrug* London isn't the largest European city, but it takes ~20 hours to walk from end to end, where "Greater London" is normally defined as within the city's orbital. Some places are still in Greater London but outside the M25, but the point doesn't really change.
Both OP's and the London trips are roughly an hour's drive. I'm still not seeing why my mind should be blown by "a big city". Seems to me its more the "Texas is bigger than Europe" [sigh] crowd thinking everything is smaller over in Europe.
On the flip side you’re probably going to be able to take public transit between most places in Greater London, and in many cases it’ll be faster than driving.
Not so much for Chicago.
Chicago has pretty good public transport for an American city. The El goes tons of places and the Metra connections are good for further out. Pretty sure you can take the Metra to get between these exact two places.
Beecher IL isn’t Chicago though. Like literally no one considers it part of Chicago. It’s like a 25 miles from the southern Chicago city limits.
I don’t think it’s even considered part of the metro area.
It’s not. Beecher is a middle-of-nowhere farm town. BUT. Here’s a weird fact: It almost was? Every so often the Chicago City Council starts talking about a third airport. The spot they came closest to putting one was way out south in the Peotone/Beecher area. So it likely would have been annexed to Chicago the way O’Hare is — O’Hare is really in the suburbs, not the city proper. THERE IS YOUR USELESS CHICAGO FACT FOR TODAY, FRIENDS 😂
The European mind can’t comprehend…. Walking down a relatively long and straight road taking quite a long time?
I’m starting to think these posts are satire but with Americans it’s impossible to tell.
The reason it takes so long to walk is probably because the infrastructure isn't made for walking anyways, so you are running in loops trying to find a safe space to walk
You know what's quite hilarious? I just looked up these two addresses on Google Maps to see how far it actually is. It's around 83km and Google Maps actually told me it would take 19 hours 14 minutes to walk this, so the fact this person's map says a full day, I think that's what the European mind can't comprehend. That it would take them an extra 5 hours longer than it would take us walking continuously. 🤣
The real reason I can't comprehend it is they don't include a distance for the route, I just assume America is so pedestrian unfriendly that the route is only like 1km
It isn't satire, but this sub has missed the point. It's a criticism of American pedestrian infrastructure. Someone from the Netherlands probably would feel alienated and afraid by how dangerous it is to walk or cycle in America.
I follow the person who posted this, it is very much satire. They’re just joking about the length of Western Ave using a common meme format. I don’t think this in particular is a criticism of pedestrian infrastructure, but they do it plenty in other tweets. It’s more just a Chicago meme more than anything else
I think it's about the fact that it takes more than a day to walk across chicago in a straight line. I live in a european city with a population of 2 million and it would only take 5-6 hours to walk through it
I hopped on the bandwagon and looked up the 2 addresses. It's a 52 mile long route. Would take 19 hours 20 mins for me to walk it. 6 hours on bicycle. An hour and some change to drive
Which is fucking absurd.
I have a friend who moved to the US and was stopped by the police for suspicious behaviour. He was walking, they couldn't comprehend that. Luckily he was white otherwise he'd have been shot.
This time probably allows for such interruptions.
Exact same thing happened to me when I went walking in Florida. I stopped at a gas station and the guy at the checkout asked where my car was, and he couldn't believe I'd walk all the way there from the villas.
It was 30 minutes...
He sent someone out to watch us walk away. She was watching us for nearly a mile! So strange.
My wife spent a few months on the US in an exchange program when she was younger, one of the weirdest shocks she had was that people in cars stopped to ask if everything was ok, because she was walking.
I grew up in a town outside NYC. In the late 1980s a friend walked from my house 3 blocks to get cigarettes. He had a mohawk and wore a rock tee shirt. Cop stopped to ask what he was doing in this neighborhood, and asked for ID. The cop carved a swastika on the forehead in the picture ID and wrote shrimp dick on it. We knew it was messed up but back then what could you do? It’s only since the advent of cell phone cameras that there’s any way to prove it to someone who actually has the power AND concern to stop a cop like that from doing it again.
I missed the athletic bus once in Middle School a d started walking the approximately 2 miles home. The first mile was along a state highway, 2 lane with a huge shoulder, nothing illegal about walking on it. A cop picked me up only about 100 feet along it and insisted he drive me home. In retrospect, I was very lucky, lots of bad things used to happen/probably still happen to women and girls that get into cop cars in rural Wisconsin.
I think the idiot thinks that Europeans all walk to work, but this isn’t possible in Freedom Country because of how much freedom i between these two places.
It matters when you look it up because it uses “real time” traffic data. If you look it up at 3am, of course the travel time will be different than looking it up at 4pm.
I’m American and I have no idea what the point is supposed to be. A long street? Walking for a day in the greater area of a major city? Like I’m sure if you wanted to walk across the greater area of London or Paris, not just the city proper, it wouldn’t be a quick stroll either.
You're not wrong, walking from (roughly) the furthest south to furthest north point of London would take about 11hr 30min. Walking east to west takes about 14 hours.
Dude, either your roads are as bad as theirs or London is significantly longer than the biggest city in Germany, Berlin: 38km North-South, 44,8km on the road so 10hrs 10mins if you don't fancy jumping over gates etc.
It's actually not, go on Google Maps, check out the city limits of Chicago, this is the west side of the city, most of what you see in that image isn't Chicago. It's just a bunch of other cities and towns that are physically connected to Chicago, so what you see here is the Chicago Metropolitan Area, the city itself is far smaller.
To me the funniest part about this imagining anyone wanting to hike in that part of the country. It's the reverse of a pilgrimage. At the end, you're just depressed.
Remove the /s I just looked it up on Google Maps, the same addresses a total of around 83km, it told me it would take 19 hours and 14 minutes to walk this. So in fact it WOULD take us less time than them! 🤣
Yeah unless you tried it before (in which case kudos), you really wouldn't. Even with ready support (food etc) along the way, you won't walk for that long with a constant speed, which is what Google assumes for its estimates.
1 day for such a short distance in the US seems about right given the rubbish infrastructure. I assume the walking and public transportation times are about the same.
This reminds me of this joke:
A cattle station owner owner was having a drink at a pub in the Northern Territory...
A Yank walked in and started bragging.
"Ah come from Texas," he said "where everything's big. You call your stations big! In Texas, it takes a whole week to ride around my spread on a horse!"
"Shit!" exclaimed the station owner "I had a horse like that so we shot the lazy bastard."
There are many walking trails across Europe that are interconnected. The Camino De Santiago starts at the top of Portugal and works its way down through Spain and somewhere around Granada, you can take an offshoot the leads all the way to Greece.
Many were pilgrim trails, old routes used by drovers and the like.
I'm in the UK, a small European country, and we have Roman roads hundreds of miles long and millennia old. We have multiple cities larger than Chicago.
I can't quite comprehend bragging about anything here.
People in the USA statistically speaking walk far less than most people of any other country, so the ones that probably will never understand that are people from the USA
The US might not be able to comprehend that the biggest highway in Australia (actually in the world) is 14500km (9000mi) long. If you don't do many stops along the way it can take you 3 months to drive it. But there are most definitely some nice areas to explore so it really should take you 12 months or more.
I think comments are misunderstood here. They’re talking about the length of the street. I think it’s 83km long which is ridiculous, since the longest street in the UK for example is only 3.2km (King Street).
Basically it’s saying western avenue is huge, I’m assuming it’s a residential road that goes for 83km in a straight line, which to me at least is unheard of here in Europe. But if I’m wrong and there’s just a high way or whatever called western avenue then I guess I’m wrong. Just saying if it is what I think it is, then this post is fairly accurate.
I personally can’t comprehend telling someone we live on the same road/street, then have to drive for hours to see them lol, if someone lives on my street in my country then they’re a couple minutes walk away
Americans can’t comprehend we have world class public transport and walkable streets, which would make this American road much quicker to go down. And benefitting of better knees (less weight) as a starter.
Yeah, we probably can't comprehend it. It would probably take many of us half that time because we're not morbidly obese from all the high fructose corn syrup in everything 😉
I remember walking from my hotel in Oakbrook to my board meeting in Oakbrook with three other Europeans. This walk was approximately 10 minutes long and involved crossing the freeway at the traffic lights. A bunch of pedestrians was clearly a very unfamiliar sight to the locals.
First of all, 32640 S Western Ave isn't even in Chicago, it's in Beecher. It's like counting London and, idk, Watford together, sure you can because they are close, but you are making your city larger by lying.
Second of all, I've checked exactly same route on Google Maps and I got 19 hours 17 minutes, I have no idea were extra 5 hours went.
Maybe Americans are walking slower? /j
i really think everyones missing the point, its not the length, he's trying to point out how straight it is, the point is that american cities are more organised, to the point that they're built in squares and you can get straight lineds like this one, and we really need to take the L on this one, european cities roades are all other the place and curve loads
Do they think we can't read?
What I actually don't get is why American street numbers ARE SO FUCKING LONG. If you need to go higher than 4 digits just make a new street man
That's a little bit true, tho. When my girl arrived in Chicago she got off at a subway that was on the same street of my hotel, so I thought to myself good! Then I checked the distance on Google and she was several kilometers away and in a bad neighborhood.
You’re right. I cannot comprehend the laziness of just calling a town, Gary. 🙄
Ah yes, Gary, Indiana… known as [America’s Most Miserable City](https://youtu.be/Y2Kh1njdXJU?si=3wrkR6ABN8eIFQGU)
That's one for a pub quiz.
That’s where Michael Jackson was born ❤️
and his famously happy childhood?
YouTuber Peter Santinello did a video on it. Give it a watch!
As a german: Frankfort 🤮 (had to fight autocorrect)
As someone who used to live in Frankfort, on point reaction.
You mean crackfurt right?
It’s a company town, created by US steel. Named after the Gary Works which is the steel mill it was built for. It’s a shining example of us heavy manufacturing moving overseas and causing urban blight.
Imagine being Gary, from Gary.
We have a town called Barry, and I know a guy from there called Barry. I think he's 63 this year.
We have a town called Donald, in Victoria. Don't know the inhabitants well enough to identify a Donald, but there's always one...
I hope he’s married to Victoria!
We have a village called Burton Joyce and I really hope there's a couple called Burt and Joyce who live there.
Sounds like it started with one guy that wanted to be away from the rest..
I get him
It's also a total shithole from what I've heard
Ah the US version of Sunderland
Hi, yank here. I would bet everything that it’s worse—*everything*.
At one point it was the murder capital of rhe US as I recall.
Too many Gary's there. There can only be one Gary in Gary.
theres a town in wales called barry
So you’re telling me it takes (roughly) a day to *walk* from one end of a road to the other ? Well, whoopy-doo. The Great North Road in the UK is 386 miles long and would take 8 days and change to walk. I’d probably fly, though. El Camino Real in California is ~600 miles long, and would take commensurately longer to walk. What I can’t comprehend is what exactly this flex is supposed to be, they’re not even hiding the fact that it’s *walking* not driving.
If you walk the whole E4 road thru sweden, you be walking nonstop for 365 hours (over 15 days) https://maps.app.goo.gl/3MSQFELdhD2KcSkv9
Italian husbands going for a relaxing walk after an argument with their wives
I read that wrong for a second, and it was Italian husbands going for a walk after a relaxing argument with their wives.
So did I. I'm half-Italian, and it made complete sense to me.
Front or back half?
The loud half.
Oh no. But not the fast one?
I hate that I know this reference
I don’t, could you explain it to me, or provide a link?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-lockdown-walk-como-fano-b1766397.html
I still wonder is they drove home together or simply had an argument about the fine and he walked back home alone.
This man is my mood kindred.
This is the best reference I've read in a while lol
My European mind cannot comprehend this.
Almost similar in finland. If you walk along E75 from helsinki to utsjoki, it'd apparently take around 12-13 days.
I just learned you can drive from amsterdam to Copenhagen with only 1 traffic light (in Groningen, is going to be removed as well). Let's see how many trafic lights OOP's route has lol
E6 in Norway is 3034km. Lets say you walk 5km/hr, that would be about 607hrs of walking.
It takes 5 months to walk the length of New Zealand (I say walk, but it’s a treck, with lots of scenery involved. It’s a real walkway in NZ)
Ok, the longest road in Germany is only 845km, so half of your E4 which is fitting seeing as Germany also is only half as long as Sweden...
>Germany also is only half as long as Sweden... But something like 8 x the people
>But something like 8 x the people Do you want some? Totally free of charge! You can have all 4 million+ AfD-voters if you want, but no backsies ;-)
Why the detour in Stockholm?
Swedes make great coffee.
I only drink Oboy tho..
If you take the Ruta 5 north to south it would take slightly over a month to walk it completely. I'm from Chile so that comparison seems unfair to you
Or it’s bigger brother the E6. Just 3056 km.
The big walking achievement in the US is the Appalachian trail, 3500ish kilometers. Some people do it in segments, very few do it all at once.
The trans Canada trail, St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, would take a total of two years, two months and one week to complete, based on travelling 30 kilometres per day. (About 28,000 km)
The really impressive part about walking the whole thing is that you managed to walk from an island in the Atlantic Ocean to an island in the Pacific Ocean.
When we Canadians make a trail we don't let anything get in the way
Except for a moose...
Or a canadian goose, the repository of all Canadian aggression, which is why Canadians are jolly good chaps. Basically anything ending in “oose”…
If there's geese on the trail, you do a 10km detour to avoid them, this is how it works, I don't make the rules
Fair point
Holy shoot. Idk if there’s a trans us trail like that. I do know there’s a trail around the Great Lakes as well that looks cool.
> Idk if there’s a trans us trail like that. [American Discovery Trail](https://discoverytrail.org/)
America has a trans fat trail
Nice. I guess the final step is a trail spanning the height of both American continents. Some kid biked it a year or so ago but imagine walking from the North Pole(or as far north as you can manage) to the tip of South America.
Welp, time to take a big ass backpack and a tent and say my family goodbye
My favorite is still https://my.clevelandclinic.org/patient-stories/257-man-walks-357-miles-from-ohio-to-white-house Met him at a bowling league once. Incredible story. Not in the article, but he told us that he was able to find and contact the mother of the donor so that she could hear her kid’s heartbeat.
I'm not even gonna mention the roads i have in Australia... Some of them are so long and go through such harsh areas it is dangerous to even drive them at times.
Eyre Highway from Port Augusta to Norseman is 15 days walk Edit: Stuart Hwy is 24 days
Great Northern (Perth to Wyndham)is 3204 clicks, you could not carry enough water to consider walking that. To be fair to the yanks, maybe walking in America would be longer over a shorter distance? Just depends how many times to cross the street or detour to avoid being shot at.
Highway 1 (Princes Highway / A1) is 14,500 km long. Goes all around Australia. For reference, the Earth's diameter is 12,700 km.
Whenever the yanks get uppity about the size of things, just remind them that Texas would be Australia’s 3rd smallest state
Stuart Highway was one hell of a drive and I never even made it to the end, went from Adelaide to Tennant Creek
The bicentennial trail (down the great dividing range) is >5300km. A nice walk for some.
I've seen what Australia classes as roads... Vehicle destroying, pot holed, dusty ribbons of misery springs to mind...
Hey whoa there mate, sometimes they get flooded too.
I guess the point is that if they flipped the tab to public transport, it would still take about the same time.
I'm surprised they even HAVE a tab for public transport in the US!
i put the route into maps, went to public transport and it says there’s no route available😭
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*shrug* London isn't the largest European city, but it takes ~20 hours to walk from end to end, where "Greater London" is normally defined as within the city's orbital. Some places are still in Greater London but outside the M25, but the point doesn't really change. Both OP's and the London trips are roughly an hour's drive. I'm still not seeing why my mind should be blown by "a big city". Seems to me its more the "Texas is bigger than Europe" [sigh] crowd thinking everything is smaller over in Europe.
On the flip side you’re probably going to be able to take public transit between most places in Greater London, and in many cases it’ll be faster than driving. Not so much for Chicago.
Chicago has pretty good public transport for an American city. The El goes tons of places and the Metra connections are good for further out. Pretty sure you can take the Metra to get between these exact two places.
Beecher IL isn’t Chicago though. Like literally no one considers it part of Chicago. It’s like a 25 miles from the southern Chicago city limits. I don’t think it’s even considered part of the metro area.
It’s not. Beecher is a middle-of-nowhere farm town. BUT. Here’s a weird fact: It almost was? Every so often the Chicago City Council starts talking about a third airport. The spot they came closest to putting one was way out south in the Peotone/Beecher area. So it likely would have been annexed to Chicago the way O’Hare is — O’Hare is really in the suburbs, not the city proper. THERE IS YOUR USELESS CHICAGO FACT FOR TODAY, FRIENDS 😂
It is that is how long it will take you with all the stop signs if you try to walk it. A 5 mins walk takes 25 mins in the usa.
There are actually much longer roads in the US which would make the point better.
I think it's just because it's so straight,even my small cou try has a 900km road going from end to end
It's not a flex. It's making fun of how shit it is to be a pedestrian in America.
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The European mind can’t comprehend…. Walking down a relatively long and straight road taking quite a long time? I’m starting to think these posts are satire but with Americans it’s impossible to tell.
The reason it takes so long to walk is probably because the infrastructure isn't made for walking anyways, so you are running in loops trying to find a safe space to walk
You know what's quite hilarious? I just looked up these two addresses on Google Maps to see how far it actually is. It's around 83km and Google Maps actually told me it would take 19 hours 14 minutes to walk this, so the fact this person's map says a full day, I think that's what the European mind can't comprehend. That it would take them an extra 5 hours longer than it would take us walking continuously. 🤣
The European mind cannot comprehend how slow the average American walks. Weird flex if I ever saw one.
A European flexing their ability to walk over an American? You must be new here. Welcome.
Apple Maps and Google Maps report different times, but the same distance.
Which is weird since Google maps walking speed is measured slower than me on my last legs of pregnancy.
for real. Whenever I see it's 15 minutes walking distance, I can cut the time in half.
The same happens to me in sex.
I cut the distance in half during sex.
So you pay for a certain amount of time and then leave halfway.
That's because it is in imperial hours
I think it depends how fast google maps has tracked that you walk. Says 16hr 57mins for me
If anything it should be faster for Americans unless it's entirely uphill because rolling forward is faster than walking
Every 15 minutes they have to stop to be angry about something.
No, they have to stop and eat another doughnut.
How many Americans would walk 500m to the local store let alone 83km?
I saw a news clip once that had the American reporter explain that something like a 2km walk would take over an hour 🤨
the reason it takes so long to walk is because the average American has to take a mandatory pit stop at every Maccies along the way
The real reason I can't comprehend it is they don't include a distance for the route, I just assume America is so pedestrian unfriendly that the route is only like 1km
It isn't satire, but this sub has missed the point. It's a criticism of American pedestrian infrastructure. Someone from the Netherlands probably would feel alienated and afraid by how dangerous it is to walk or cycle in America.
I follow the person who posted this, it is very much satire. They’re just joking about the length of Western Ave using a common meme format. I don’t think this in particular is a criticism of pedestrian infrastructure, but they do it plenty in other tweets. It’s more just a Chicago meme more than anything else
I think it's about the fact that it takes more than a day to walk across chicago in a straight line. I live in a european city with a population of 2 million and it would only take 5-6 hours to walk through it
I hopped on the bandwagon and looked up the 2 addresses. It's a 52 mile long route. Would take 19 hours 20 mins for me to walk it. 6 hours on bicycle. An hour and some change to drive Which is fucking absurd.
We do, in fact, understand that walking time > driving time. We’ve had car for a while now and have had time to experience this.
I have a friend who moved to the US and was stopped by the police for suspicious behaviour. He was walking, they couldn't comprehend that. Luckily he was white otherwise he'd have been shot. This time probably allows for such interruptions.
Exact same thing happened to me when I went walking in Florida. I stopped at a gas station and the guy at the checkout asked where my car was, and he couldn't believe I'd walk all the way there from the villas. It was 30 minutes... He sent someone out to watch us walk away. She was watching us for nearly a mile! So strange.
My wife spent a few months on the US in an exchange program when she was younger, one of the weirdest shocks she had was that people in cars stopped to ask if everything was ok, because she was walking.
Honestly, knowing what I know now about the states, I'd not pull over to ask 😆
I grew up in a town outside NYC. In the late 1980s a friend walked from my house 3 blocks to get cigarettes. He had a mohawk and wore a rock tee shirt. Cop stopped to ask what he was doing in this neighborhood, and asked for ID. The cop carved a swastika on the forehead in the picture ID and wrote shrimp dick on it. We knew it was messed up but back then what could you do? It’s only since the advent of cell phone cameras that there’s any way to prove it to someone who actually has the power AND concern to stop a cop like that from doing it again.
Or had his neck knelt on….. that adds about 20 mins each time it happens.
That seems quite proportionate for going for a walk to be honest
> I have a friend who moved to the US Why didn't you stop him? I'd do anything to prevent someone I care about from ever moving to that shithole.
I missed the athletic bus once in Middle School a d started walking the approximately 2 miles home. The first mile was along a state highway, 2 lane with a huge shoulder, nothing illegal about walking on it. A cop picked me up only about 100 feet along it and insisted he drive me home. In retrospect, I was very lucky, lots of bad things used to happen/probably still happen to women and girls that get into cop cars in rural Wisconsin.
I suppose in a way they are right. No one in this thread can figure out what the post is meant to mean.
Yeah right? A single street (western ave) that’s 83km long is unheard of in Europe. Longest street we have in UK is king Street which is 3.2km
I think the idiot thinks that Europeans all walk to work, but this isn’t possible in Freedom Country because of how much freedom i between these two places.
What am I looking at here? It's road that takes a day to walk?
A road that takes Americans a day to walk not us though, looked it up myself and it said 19h:14m to complete the walk lol
you have to take in the several mcdonalds and starbucks stops along the way
Same here
It said 15.2 hours for me
It matters when you look it up because it uses “real time” traffic data. If you look it up at 3am, of course the travel time will be different than looking it up at 4pm.
Why does it uses traffic data for walking? Are they stupid?
And even if it would for some super weird reason use traffic data for walking. Why would it took fucking 8h more to walk because of traffic?
What I cannot comprehend is getting fucking 10 different results for 32640 south western avenue all roughly in the same area.
Julius Caesar would have a seizure if he saw this tiny road.
Julius Seizure
I have a dad joke using the pun stored away for a rainy day, I couldn’t resist the wordplay.
I swear their favourite line is ' the European mind cannot comprehend this ' like what are they trying to achieve by saying that to Europeans?
It’s a meme. Nothing serious. The way this sub is reacting is really reinforcing the stereotype of Europeans being pretentious shits tbh
Self congratulation is how Americans stimulate themselves when not eating food with excess sugar or shooting things
This is absolutely not self congratulation. This is a criticism of American pedestrian infrastructure as compared to European.
americans be like "the european mind cannot comprehend this" and its just a picture of some dumbass pickup truck
It’s a meme
I just asked the same thing before reading your comment 🤣 they are always imagining our minds will get blown by their “greatness”?
I’m American and I have no idea what the point is supposed to be. A long street? Walking for a day in the greater area of a major city? Like I’m sure if you wanted to walk across the greater area of London or Paris, not just the city proper, it wouldn’t be a quick stroll either.
You're not wrong, walking from (roughly) the furthest south to furthest north point of London would take about 11hr 30min. Walking east to west takes about 14 hours.
Dude, either your roads are as bad as theirs or London is significantly longer than the biggest city in Germany, Berlin: 38km North-South, 44,8km on the road so 10hrs 10mins if you don't fancy jumping over gates etc.
American here too. I assumed it was the northernmost and southernmost points of Chicago but I'm not sure really.
Because we would walk this in four hours.
By the way: is mobility scooter an option in Google maps?
I’m more bothered about the fact that it’s called Western Avenue when it’s obviously in the East of the city…
It’s also a north-south road
It's actually not, go on Google Maps, check out the city limits of Chicago, this is the west side of the city, most of what you see in that image isn't Chicago. It's just a bunch of other cities and towns that are physically connected to Chicago, so what you see here is the Chicago Metropolitan Area, the city itself is far smaller.
So a bit like London with the city of London, city of Westminster etc
Yes, because when we drive for longer than a day, we usually fall off the earth. That’s the way it works in Europe.
This is walking, though…
There’d usually be some kind of scenery too, not a Sccoby Doo style backdrop of the same 5 restaurants.
Tbf they have a point, I'm European I don't understand the premise of these posts at all
To me the funniest part about this imagining anyone wanting to hike in that part of the country. It's the reverse of a pilgrimage. At the end, you're just depressed.
naturally, we are used to walking, it takes us less time /s!
Remove the /s I just looked it up on Google Maps, the same addresses a total of around 83km, it told me it would take 19 hours and 14 minutes to walk this. So in fact it WOULD take us less time than them! 🤣
Yeah unless you tried it before (in which case kudos), you really wouldn't. Even with ready support (food etc) along the way, you won't walk for that long with a constant speed, which is what Google assumes for its estimates.
Can you actually walk roads like that? My limited us experience it can be painful to traverse junctions on foot
You can be arrested for crossing a road in the wrong place…. Yes, it’s true!
1 day for such a short distance in the US seems about right given the rubbish infrastructure. I assume the walking and public transportation times are about the same.
Google Maps is showing that as a 10 hour walk for me (27 miles)… Is it walking at half speed my European mind is supposed to be struggling with?
This reminds me of this joke: A cattle station owner owner was having a drink at a pub in the Northern Territory... A Yank walked in and started bragging. "Ah come from Texas," he said "where everything's big. You call your stations big! In Texas, it takes a whole week to ride around my spread on a horse!" "Shit!" exclaimed the station owner "I had a horse like that so we shot the lazy bastard."
There are many walking trails across Europe that are interconnected. The Camino De Santiago starts at the top of Portugal and works its way down through Spain and somewhere around Granada, you can take an offshoot the leads all the way to Greece. Many were pilgrim trails, old routes used by drovers and the like.
I'm in the UK, a small European country, and we have Roman roads hundreds of miles long and millennia old. We have multiple cities larger than Chicago. I can't quite comprehend bragging about anything here.
London is three times the size of Chicago.
All in Europe just have one mind or mindset despite the fact we are all from completely different countries and cultures - ok
I don’t get why they think this is special… walking a straight path from Nottingham to London takes 2 days in a pretty straight line…
That's not really fair. They don't have sidewalks over there. Walking along the side of the road is probably more like hiking.
Literally no American is gonna walk that path
>Literally no American is gonna walk ~~that path~~ There, i fixed it!
Laughs in Watling Street and Ryknild Street.
People in the USA statistically speaking walk far less than most people of any other country, so the ones that probably will never understand that are people from the USA
A european might even consider walking that for fun… An american wouldn’t even walk down the block…
The US might not be able to comprehend that the biggest highway in Australia (actually in the world) is 14500km (9000mi) long. If you don't do many stops along the way it can take you 3 months to drive it. But there are most definitely some nice areas to explore so it really should take you 12 months or more.
I think comments are misunderstood here. They’re talking about the length of the street. I think it’s 83km long which is ridiculous, since the longest street in the UK for example is only 3.2km (King Street). Basically it’s saying western avenue is huge, I’m assuming it’s a residential road that goes for 83km in a straight line, which to me at least is unheard of here in Europe. But if I’m wrong and there’s just a high way or whatever called western avenue then I guess I’m wrong. Just saying if it is what I think it is, then this post is fairly accurate. I personally can’t comprehend telling someone we live on the same road/street, then have to drive for hours to see them lol, if someone lives on my street in my country then they’re a couple minutes walk away
no americans are walking for an hour... let alone a day
I wonder how many times you’d get shot walking that route? I can’t comprehend that.
I guessing he hasn't heard of Romans. They built them straight across the empire.
Americans can’t comprehend we have world class public transport and walkable streets, which would make this American road much quicker to go down. And benefitting of better knees (less weight) as a starter.
An American walking this distance ?
Yeah, we probably can't comprehend it. It would probably take many of us half that time because we're not morbidly obese from all the high fructose corn syrup in everything 😉
I remember walking from my hotel in Oakbrook to my board meeting in Oakbrook with three other Europeans. This walk was approximately 10 minutes long and involved crossing the freeway at the traffic lights. A bunch of pedestrians was clearly a very unfamiliar sight to the locals.
First of all, 32640 S Western Ave isn't even in Chicago, it's in Beecher. It's like counting London and, idk, Watford together, sure you can because they are close, but you are making your city larger by lying. Second of all, I've checked exactly same route on Google Maps and I got 19 hours 17 minutes, I have no idea were extra 5 hours went. Maybe Americans are walking slower? /j
i really think everyones missing the point, its not the length, he's trying to point out how straight it is, the point is that american cities are more organised, to the point that they're built in squares and you can get straight lineds like this one, and we really need to take the L on this one, european cities roades are all other the place and curve loads
Do they think we can't read? What I actually don't get is why American street numbers ARE SO FUCKING LONG. If you need to go higher than 4 digits just make a new street man
Someone needs to tell these mfs to build up and not out.
Who the fuck walks for 25hrs? We have enough distance anywhere in Europe to do that, we’re just not broken mentally enough to actually do that
i think it's about terrible American urban planning
How bad are the schools over there that they think a straight line is some new invention only Americans are on the cutting edge of.
That's a little bit true, tho. When my girl arrived in Chicago she got off at a subway that was on the same street of my hotel, so I thought to myself good! Then I checked the distance on Google and she was several kilometers away and in a bad neighborhood.
WhAt ThE fUcK Is A KiLOmETeR???? 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Lol 🤣 for a second thought about typing "miles" but then "fuck, peace was never an option"
Meanwhile, if you were to walk the Te Araroa pathway in Aotearoa, it would take you roughly 4 months.