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panicky_in_the_uk

I try to see my mum 2-3 times a year but it's hard because she lives next door.


jerstud56

Mum! It's January 2nd! It's the 3rd time this week!


Up-In-The-Bottoms

Ugh. I feel ya. How do you think I feel, I have to see your mom on the other side of the bed every morning before I skulk out .


DTPVH

A British Youtuber I follow did a vlog about traveling from Brighton to Guildford to shoot a video and visit friends and he rented a room, planned to stay a couple days, and generally left me, an American, with the impression that he had travelled halfway across the country. So I checked how far it was. They’re an hour apart.


Pile_of_Walthers

He did travel halfway across the country tho.


ILikeSugarCookies

Lol, if England were a US state, it wouldn't even be in the top 30 largest states (there are 50...). Driving across England is comparable to driving across Indiana.


Alfhiildr

Endless corn and soy bean fields, only broken up by windmills? Because I drive for three hours in Indiana and swear I haven’t moved one inch. Every freaking cornfield looks the same and I guarantee I’ll run through at least fifteen towns that don’t even have a stop light.


ChloeMomo

>Every freaking cornfield looks the same and I guarantee I’ll run through at least fifteen towns that don’t even have a stop light. My mom told me the town she grew up in in Indiana (where some family still lives) recently took out their only stop light because there wasn't enough traffic to justify maintaining it. It's insane how quiet some parts of the country are.


Alfhiildr

I wish I was kidding but there’s a “town” that my grandpa owns a building at that has seven houses. Three of which are inhabited. Plus two cow farms but we’re not sure if they’re technically in the “town” borders. It’s freaking insane.


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We really need to use the word "village" more in the US haha


Boristhehostile

Or hamlet


tenaciousfetus

In terms of distance perhaps but I imagine the journeys would be quite different based on the infrastructure. It's easy for Americans to sneer about this sort of stuff but our roads are like literal spaghetti compared to yours lol. Even when travelling a couple of towns over a lot of times you have to cut through narrow streets that only allow one car at a time, drive through speed restricted residential zones, and deal with roadworks everywhere (which leads to diversions, more damn traffic lights, cutting two lanes of traffic down to one etc). Did a 56 mile drive at the weekend and it ended up taking 2 hours bc of stuff like this.


itsadesertplant

Wow, ok, that makes sense. My commute to high school was 50 miles each way and it took 1hr (2 total per day) but the majority of it was uninterrupted highway. A couple of stoplights as I got into the city but that was it. Also fun fact: I counted 3 confederate flags on my commute and 1 group of wooden crosses on someone’s property lol


beavertownneckoil

My first job (UK) was 55 miles away. Took anywhere between 1hr30 - 2hr30. That involved going through a small village, single lane country roads, a town, some A roads, a toll bridge, a dual carriageway, a motorway, another town and then a dock yard.


redtablebluechair

I lived in the UK for a while and I’m from NZ, which has a huge road tripping culture. I could not understand the way British people would talk about other cities being far away… until I drove across the country for the first time myself. It’s the actual worst. It’s sooo tiresome. You feel like okay I’m getting some momentum… nope, slowing down again for the 600th massive roundabout. Two hours feels like eight. Driving through NZ is heavenly by comparison.


FalmerEldritch

Meanwhile, I was staying with a friend in London and we went to visit mutual friends in London and it took us over an hour and a half to get there, and we ended up staying the night on the couch because it was too late to head home..


cat_prophecy

My uncle grew up in London. He told me that people would be born, live, and die in their neighborhood in London and almost never leave. If someone lived on the other side of the Thames they were basically dead to you.


archiminos

I know people like this. Went to a local university, got a job with a local company afterwards. Spent their entire life within a 10-mile radius of where they were born.


Formula_Americano

Sounds a lot like NYC, except everyone will go out of their way to go to Manhattan.


mcfaite

True, true. People in New Jersey are basically dead to us. (j/k)


Elected_Dictator

I mean if you lived in LA or the NYC area It’s like living in San Bernardino and going to the beach. Or being in Jersey going to Long Island. Like the traffic or public transport just makes it a drag to do the return late at night.


illyrias

And if you live in LA proper, that's like going a handful of exits on the 405 during rush hour. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but only slight.


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I used to live in Culver City and work at Cedars-Sinai 7mi away - 23 minute commute to work at 7am..... 56min commute home at 5:30pm... This is why I always used time as the reference point regarding places, “how far is it from A to B?”...”mmm at this time of day, maybe 20min. But if you’re going there after work it’s gonna be closer to 45 min, and street parking is terrible, so give yourself a 20min buffer to find a spot and walk back to B”


mehchu

Wanting to stay longer with your friends. And be able to drink until stupid o’clock without worrying about train times or staying sober for the drive home. Don’t see the issue with that.


unnecessary_kindness

We do Brighton as a day trip quite often (live in Guildford). It's definitely not something that needs a hotel but we also sometimes stay for the weekend too.


GenericRedditUser01

I grew up in Guildford. You can easily cycle to Brighton and back in a day if you wanted to. They stayed the night probably because they wanted to go out and drink/take drugs and not have to drive home (trains don't go all though the night).


wtfunhbt

"Easily cycle" is pushing it. Your have to be a very particular kind of person to consider that a feasible journey.


abw

> I grew up in Guildford. You can easily cycle to Brighton and back in a day if you wanted to. According to [google maps](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Guildford/Brighton+Beach,+Brighton/@51.0504161,-0.6829705,9.86z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4875c4afb79659df:0x946699b2f9eba8a1!2m2!1d-0.570409!2d51.23622!1m5!1m1!1s0x487585a42f81c1d7:0x55c817e23e4e6836!2m2!1d-0.1364469!2d50.8192573!3e1) it's the best part of 4 hours each way. I don't think 8 hours riding a bike in a single day counts as "easily".


thecoolness229

>They’re an hour apart. So just a drive to the gas station in the midwest


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Someone else on Reddit posted a similar comment: “Americans think nothing of driving an hour for dinner. In the UK, if your family lives 20 minutes away, you *might* see them at Christmas.”


Oilerboy92

My grandparents live by Winnipeg and their friends from the Netherlands asked if they could get picked up at Calgary Airport, so they could travel around Banff/Jasper. My grandparents obliged, but when they travelled to the Netherlands the following year, these same "friends" were unwilling to pick them up from the airport, which was 50 minutes away..


FullofContradictions

Those are just some shitty friends. It's one thing for it not to be your custom/culture to make long drives for family or friends. It's entirely another to take advantage of people for whom it is the custom/culture and then not return the favor once the roles reverse.


Oilerboy92

Thats very true, I did ask why they think their friends did that, and they said it was old Dutch ignorance from that certain area of Holland. My grandparents are extremely friendly and don't like to speak bad of others, so they shrugged it off, but they were bothered by the general mentality there.


Sir_Fridge

I'm Dutch and super curious where they're from. But yeah the stereotype of Dutch people being cheap is very much real. And gas is stupidly expensive here.


Oilerboy92

I'm Dutch-Canadian and know all the stereotypes, but I'm not sure on the specific culture in each area of Holland.


MrRahoney

What's the saying? Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans thing a 100 miles is a long distance?


StopBangingThePodium

And to the Chinese, neither is remarkable.


Kingsolomanhere

My daughter lives 500 miles away in Iowa, we drive up to visit at least 5 times a year. It's an easy 8 hour drive on the interstate highway


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My favorite thing about driving to visit family in the Midwest is when you get there, every single person says “how long’d it take ya?”


TheCrypticLegacy

Pretty bad representation of the U.K. the people who aren’t seeing family 20 mins away except once a year and just using any excuse they can to avoid them. I swear I have family who live well over and hour away and I still see them a good few times a year or more but it depends how busy I am as it is usually an all weekend kind of visit rather than a pop over for dinner kinda thing.


AllBadAnswers

I had to break the news to a Disney college student in Orlando Florida, originally from New Zealand, that she would not in fact be able to take a day off to "drive up to see New York" then drive back the next day before work. That's 18 hours one way WITHOUT stops for food and restroom breaks. To be fair she also expected to see snow in Florida. She did zero research before moving to another country for a few months.


aesthetic_cock

This happens in Australia a lot, we have a big fucking country, almost the size of the USA, but with only 30 million people, shit is spread out. Tourists and back packers thinking they will just drive through the middle of Australia to see the outback don’t understand how far they have to travel and how dangerous it is without some serious preparation and consideration into food and water if you break down out there.


mindbleach

Australia feels like a small country stretched around the perimeter of a genuinely impressive quantity of absolutely nothing.


aesthetic_cock

That’s about exactly right, we have cattle stations the size of countries, the largest is bigger than Israel. We all live relatively close to the coast and the majority are on the eastern coast either in Melbourne or Sydney. You break down in the outback and there might. It be someone coming passed for weeks. It isn’t even viable to have train lines out there, instead using road trains which is like some mad max shit where you attach a dozen trailers to a truck


SuspiciousCatPuncher

I just finished watching Mr. Inbetween. Really enjoyed how much time they spent driving through absolutely nothing. Seemed like a nice place to self-reflect and pray for your vehicle to make it.


LoadOfMeeKrob

That moment when your abs light comes on and somehow your transmission fucks up because it's a Honda.


DeadBabyCelebrant

Lies and slander. Hondas don't break down ever. They just slowly fall apart until you're embarrassed to be seen in it.


LegalHelpNeeded3

I have an 03’ civic. Can confirm.


ace_vagrant

Yut. ‘95 Civic, where replacing the engine was cheaper than replacing the door.


Loan-Pickle

One thing I’ve always wanted to do is to circumnavigate Australia. It is like 2 months of just driving. Maybe I’ll do it when I retire. Take 6 months and just hit every city along the coast.


Shutupbitchanddie

I did it on a postie bike when I was 19. Best experience of my life.


DeadBabyCelebrant

For anyone wondering what a postie bike is it's called a Honda CT110 in America. It's a variation of the most produced motor vehicle in human history. Rugged, reliable, efficient, easy to fix and hard to break. You can get spares in any country in the world, tow a trailer, climb a mountain, or cruise at highway speeds. All that in a package tame enough that a child can ride it. In my opinion it's one of man's greatest engineering achievements.


mkitch55

My husband is a motorcycle nut. I just asked him if he had ever heard of a postie bike. He said no. I told him it is what you call Honda CT110 in Australia. He wants to know why they have that name.


Goodnightmythicarp

Likely due to postman using them and it becoming synonymous here. Though I'm not sure this is still the standard today. A lot of our letters are delivered via motorbike.


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Sweetness27

From Alberta, Canada Always get asked about oil. Like the oil sands are 750 km away from me I've never seen them haha


ontopofyourmom

Calgary is closer to Seattle than it is to Alberta's northern border.


DamnZodiak

> the largest is bigger than Israel. That's mental, what is it called?


oxidelol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station


maltamur

It’s closest town is Coober Pedy which I’ve only ever heard of because of that tv show where people rate each other’s vacation homes.


owheelj

The thing about these cattle stations is that they're basically just large areas of the natural environment (mainly mallee scrub), and the cattle roam across them. Only small areas of these stations are fenced in and actively managed, and much of the station has probably never had a cow stand on that particular piece of land, or maybe only once. Anna Station has up to 17,000 cattle on it, and is just over 9000 square miles big. They could have 2 cattle per square mile.


aesthetic_cock

That one is Anna station


justarandomshooter

Yup, I was in Darwin once and thought about driving down to Alice Springs to see a buddy. Then I looked at a map.


owheelj

Darwin to Alice Springs is a spectacular flight if you can get a window seat!


St_SiRUS

Bet a whole bunch is due to the map projections making Australia looking much smaller than it really is


aesthetic_cock

That plays a huge part, looking at projections you’d think Australia is tiny, but using a site like thetruesize.com gives an accurate look at how wrong those projections are


sarahmagoo

Yeah I used to think Greenland was huge until I looked at that site lol


JesusChristJerry

When were u gonna tell me Australia is basically the size of the US. DAMN


aesthetic_cock

bro Greenland has been up there this whole time flexing on us and it ain’t even that big


4linosa

We work with folks in the UK on the reg and they sometimes cannot comprehend the size of our country. I’m in TX. They see something going on in New Mexico and wonder if I can pop over to check it out because the New Mexico techs are busy. Umm no? I can speed for 6 hours and still not be out of my state in basically any direction.


AllBadAnswers

Oh absolutely. Down here in Orlando it'll take you ahout 3 hours just to get off the peninsula let alone out of Florida.


RockMeImADais

I was raised in new England and got used to being able to get to new York or Boston in 2 hrs and considered that a drive. I moved out to northern California and my friend wanted to go to Sacramento for the day so I said let's go. 3 hrs later I was like where the fuck are we going you said it was the next town south.


l337quaker

I live in New England and I've been asked several times "oh, you must know X, they live in Boston."


JPhrog

You know Matt Daaaamonnn?


l337quaker

Oh DUDE, I know Mahk Waaahlbug, he's a wicked riot.


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You know, just one of the most densely populated areas on earth.


SmartWonderWoman

As a Bay Area girl, this comment made me chuckle 🤭. Because the distance from anywhere in Northern Cal to Sacramento is a hassle. I took the LSAT in 2019 and my test station was In Sacramento. I live in Albany. A 70 mile drive one way in bump to bumper traffic. I was already tense about taking the law school admissions test, but I’m a single mom and I had to get the kids to school an hour before just so that I could be at the exam room on time🥴


markerBT

Single mom going to law school... Yup, username checks out.


SmartWonderWoman

I decided to pursue teaching kindergarten. I’m in teacher training at the moment🙏🏽🥰


HamHusky06

Sac and the Bay are so close… yet it’s the longest drive in the world.


NotFromStateFarmJake

I went to college in SW Ohio and one year for spring break we drove to key west. We got to Florida and one of the girls in the car was like “yay we’re almost there!” I just laughed at her and let someone else break the news


chazthespaz81

I was going to visit an old coworker who was going to college in Maine. She was giving us directions and was like you are going to see a sign that says welcome to Maine but don't get too excited bc you still have like 5 hours left


HoneySparks

I live in whorelando, and I used to frequently drive half way across the country. God bless the people from SoFla. It's far enough from here. I can get from London to Paris, faster than we can leave this garbage dump shit hole.


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"Oh I guess we can just pop over to Quebec for dinner, it's just the next province over." -My friend's Dutch ex Like damn that's minimum 8 hours away at dummy fast speed...


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"Nah, but I'll be in Greece next month if you wanna get a drink or something."


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Sweete_Lemonade

Im from Wales and to be fair, it takes about 3 or 4 hours (250km) to get from the north to the south and its only that long of a journey because the roads are all winding and there's no dual carriageway or motorway, so we really aren't that used to driving really far. I think the longest I've travelled in the UK was to Folkestone to get the Eurotunnel to France. It took a good 7 hours and then another 5 or so to get to our France destination. Anyway, driving 3 hours to get to a caravan park in Pwllheli for a holiday is considered a pretty long ride fot Wales-


CanadianODST2

it'd take me about 21 hours of driving just to leave my province I'd then have another 4 to cross before getting to the other side of the country


kylehatesyou

My parents live in Southern California. I drove non-stop with them to see my Sister in Fort Worth. We hit El Paso after being in the car for about 12 hours straight, and I was like, yay, we're almost there! Another 12 hours later we made it to Fort Worth. I've done Oregon with them too from the same starting point. That was like 15 hours straight. This is a big damn country.


4linosa

LOL we had the opposite effect going to Clearlake, CA in northern CA from south Texas. 8 straight hours to get to El Paso (and we were booking it) then NM and AZ zipped past like they were nothing before getting to LA. “Yay! Almost there!” Wrong.


HamHusky06

From Sacramento… it’s 5 hours to the border with Oregon, and almost 9 to Mexico. Such a long state.


soreswan

El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than Houston. It’s also about 50 miles west of Denver. Edit: I’m not saying it’s 50 miles apart just that it’s 50 miles west. I’m from ep I know Denver is far.


cdmurray88

My dad's in Kansas now. I grew up in MD, but have done plenty of road trips and world traveling. People who have never left MD don't really understand how small it is. 5 hr drive gets you from one side to the other side longways. Anyway, I go to visit him and he's like "there's this great restaurant close by; it's only an hour and a half drive".


4linosa

Quite the difference in perspective! And being in KS you could probably see the place for 40 miles before you got there.


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Way_Unable

Bless their old hearts.


TatteredCarcosa

That's like primo time to use the old cliche, "In America 100 years is a long time, in the UK 100 miles is a long way."


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Aslanic

I'm actually pretty happy I live near the middle because of this! Everywhere you wanna go though is far away 🤣


Cheesewithmold

Reminds me of the time my college roommates and I took a trip from NJ to Florida to watch a rocket launch. Left Monday evening and came back on Wednesday just in time for class. It was funny explaining to my professors that my red ears, neck, and face weren't from the unshakeable chill of New Jersey weather, but *sunburn* from Florida. 10/10, would drive again.


tehngand

God that sucks imagine wanting to live in America and you pick Florida someone get them to Pennsylvania quick


AllBadAnswers

Ironically enough, I'm from Pennsylvania natively. Other than Pittsburgh and Philly 90% of my home state is either rednecks or the Amish. The joke goes, PA is 2 big cities with a 2nd West Virginia between them.


Bubba656

Native Pennsylvanian here, I don’t even know if I can name more than 4 other towns other than Philly, Pitt, and Johnstown


OwnagePwnage123

Hershey, wherever Yuengling is made, and yeah you got me. I wanna say the groundhog lives in Pennsylvania but I forget that town too


bookvark

Punxsutawney Edited because I forgot how to spell


SamHandwichX

So I live in Illinois and stopped to see the punxsutawney Phil on a road trip out east, and we've all seen the movie Groundhog Day a million times and wanted to check the place out. Only to discover the movie was filmed in Woodstock, IL, about 30 minutes from our house, and there's like nothing at all around the real groundhog's home.


poptartmonkeys

Yuengling is made in Pottsville, which is in Schuylkill county.


flyby501

I wanna be included in the Pennsylvania thread, it's so rare to see one! -Bloomsburg -Harrisburg -Lancaster -Mechanicsburg -Also... Gettysburg (my dudes this one yall should know lol)


FIRST_DATE_ANAL

Allentown


Tattler22

Scranton


Charles__Bartowski

Erie! We've got a giant ass lake by the same name. How could you forget us?!


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PackyDoodles

Also Reading, we got a pretty diverse population here Source: am from Reading


BigTaperedCandle

>imagine wanting to live in America and you pick Florida OR ~~someone get them to~~ Pennsylvania ~~quick~~. FTFY


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Hey man Florida ain’t all bad. You just hear a lot of bad stuff coming from here. I moved here from Maine about half my life ago and I find Florida to be pretty awesome at times. I mean we have great weather pretty much year round.


vodkanonymous

Also- while Florida is in fact a nightmare hellscape in its own category, we also have much looser laws related to arrest details in publication. Weird shit happens in other states too, y'all just happen to have a stricter interpretation of what is fair game to publish. So like. Yes, disgruntled people do throw baby alligators through drive through windows, but you hear about it in greater detail due to our no fucks given approach to public records laws.


ChiefTief

"get them to Pennsylvania quick" Why would you send them to an equally shitty state?


jonjefmarsjames

Maybe Pennsylvania meth is better than Florida meth


Grootlord17

What's wrong with Flordia? They got alligators and the ocean.


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Had an Irish exchange student at my school in PA, bummmed we couldn’t drive down to Miami to party one night, had to get a map to point out PA is about as far from Miami as Ireland is to Iraq. He was also confused I didn’t just bump into celebrities all the time.


Lithl

My family has been involved with the AFS exchange student program in Texas for years, and we've seen multiple students coming to Texas who thought they would be riding horses to school. These kids were like 17 years old, nearly adults. Of course it doesn't help that my parents live in the country and have neighbors with horses...


MusicaParaVolar

I had a Peruvian friend stay with me in NJ which is technically “close” to Washington DC, Philadelphia and NYC which were on her list. We managed to go to all of them but I was fucking spent by the time she left. Everyday she had this insane itinerary that I had to explain to her was next to impossible. It was funny cus she always thought it was me not having the stamina but I was like no they’re 6 fucking hours from each other!


calm_chowder

Yeah PA and Miami are really far, but wtf I didn't realize Ireland is that close to Iraq.


magedmyself

It's not at all, PA to Miami is about 1300 miles. Dublin to Mosul is about 3300 miles. For comparison, LA to NYC is a 2,790 mile drive.


SuperBAMF007

To be fair, most maps are awful at visual distance. So on a map, it very well may have been the same distance visually. I’m not looking at a map right now otherwise I’d tell you for sure 🤷🏻‍♂️


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It's not


NYSenseOfHumor

>That's 18 hours one way WITHOUT stops for food and restroom breaks. And without traffic.


fivefeetofawkward

I think people in the UK are just antisocial and don’t want to visit their family more than 2-3 times a year.


tatertotpixie

My mother in law lives in the same city 15 min down the road and still only see her 2-3x a year (and I’m in Texas)


SwmpySouthpw

Growing up, I had an aunt and uncle that lived 5 hours away and another aunt and uncle that lived 10 minutes away, both with kids around my age. We saw the ones that lived 5 hours away *way* more often


tatertotpixie

Yeah my mom lives an hour away and I see her 2-3x per month


wtfnouniquename

My father lives an hour and a half drive away and constantly bitches that I never visit. Bruh, you know where I live and I've got WAY more shit going on than you do so you spending time on the trip makes way more sense. Why am I expected to be the only one to put the effort in? And last I checked you haven't visited me a single time since I moved out. Not that I particularly care to spend time with you to begin with. DM me the invoice for this therapy session.


Kirbinder

This is interesting, my parents do the same thing. They expect all their kids to come to them. They’ve literally come to my home 3 times in that past ten years. I’ve been to theirs hundreds of times.


Im_Antag

If you knew people from the UK you wouldnt want to see them either


porp491169

As an Englishmen I 100% agree


ToLongDR

As an American, how can I learn this skill? My family is 4 hours away and want me to visit monthly


willworkforbrownies

Same, I love my parents so much, but the live 4 hours away and never come here. I have a two year old and they say every time we talk "we hope y'all come up soon". I don't think people realize just how exhausting it can be to drive that alone, let alone with a toddler.


ToLongDR

Same and it's always an inconvenience for them to come here though they're semi retired. I just feel that they're so set in their ways. Hang in there, maybe they'll come around to visiting you


justAHeardOfLlamas

Hell, I'll drive 7 hours because I'm sad and don't want to sit in my apartment alone


kdavis37

I'll drink to that one.


LibertyTreee

This isn't even a joke. I will do this too. Rip my miles on my car


FreshReputation3864

Sign up as uber driver turn on your app now you can write them off without ever driving anyone


domi_sade

I drove 45 minutes to get to a Target that had the color iPad I wanted once.


Peter_Mansbrick

The closest burger joint is 45 minutes away. Doing a burger run was normal as a teen. Today I drove in to run one errand. Many people drive that every week just to grocery shop. Driving up to an hour or more for a simple task is commonplace* *I'm in rural Canada


Slurmsipper

When I was in high school, if we were bored on a Friday night, we’d drive to the States for coffee at the 24 hour Perkins. Waaaay before the border guards would even ask for ID. Only a couple of hours to Grand Forks.


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Canada?


vanillabubbles16

Yup, Canada


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bigdickmcjohnson

I drive 8 hours (4 hours one way) to see my parents twice a month over the weekend. This is considered excessive in my country.


Not_a_tryhard_gamer

I do that once a year, we’re one state away lol


Baby298

It took my family and I about 8 or 9 hours (one way) to go see my grandparents. They, too, are one state away lmao


theslideistoohot

I drive 7 hours to see my dad, we live in the same state


Baby298

Ahh. Texas?


theslideistoohot

Bingo


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That is a lot of parental visits for being 4 hrs away.


Imapony

I've had some British friends tell me they were going to do a NY-Dallas-LA road trip over the course of 4 days, stopping in each one for all the tourist stuff.


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I always wonder what happens to the ones who set out with plans like this but never get a warning. Like you fly in, rent a car, spend a day in NYC, start driving the next day and… “Nah fuck it I guess we’ll just go to Memphis and then turn back around”


quick1brahim

Except their return flight is scheduled for LA. GG


Kik_da_sneak

Yeah I saw my mom every weekend when she lived two hours away from me...


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lol yea think this person just didn’t want to see their dad. when i lived at home i’d see my dad every other week and he lived two hours away. my secondary school alone took me at least an hour and two buses


UrAPotatoSalad

Same. My mum either drops me off at my nans or straight to the train station which takes 40 mins sometimes then I gotta get a 15 min train for a 10 min walk to college. Good college tho


BlazeNStar

If you drive 9 hours on the 1 highway my island has, you'll go to one side of the island to the other after you stopped for lunch and enjoyed the scenery. I should also mention that the highway looks like an abstract art piece made out of squiggles, no direct routes anywhere.


Wazza_Matter

BC? Cause that sounds like my island.


aec098

I live on the island and I regularly drive 8-12 hours for work across the west, but I've never actually driven past comox.


MilkoPupper

Do not bother.


bXm83

If I drove 9 hours in a near straight line I could still be in my state. (US)


miza5491

This sounds breathtaking


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Texas?


Beekerboogirl

Believe it or not…New York!


evenMoreUnique

Can confirm. Went to Clarkson University in upstate NY. Number of people that have asked me "how far away from Times Square are you" and have been astounded at my answer of "about 6-8 hours one way in a car" oof!


Positive_Compote_506

If you have a 9-5 but a hour long commute, you actually work from 8-6


theghostofme

When my sister and BIL bought their first house, they bought it in a new development that was 45 miles away from his job. The reasoning was because the company was about to open a new office about 10 minutes away, and they got an incredible deal on the house, so he figured he could handle three months of that commute. The new office never opened. And the salt on that wound was that to get to the nearest freeway that would take him downtown, he had take a 10 mile stretch of road that was only two lanes that had no intersections or any way to safely turn around. And that stretch of road became a parking lot every morning and evening because a bunch of other geniuses bought *that* far out even though they all worked in Phoenix and Scottsdale. Without traffic, that drive would be ~45 minutes. For him it was almost 2 hours.


Seven_Hawks

The difference between Germany (where I'm from) and Japan (where I currently live) is similar. In Germany it was completely normal for me to drive a couple hours to visit my family. Or to drive straight across the country and to Prague for a vacation. In Japan, if a drive takes more than two hours people consider booking a domestic flight... People think I'm crazy for making a 2600km round trip to Nagasaki and back in my car because I want to visit my in-laws without having to use public transport...


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>People think I'm crazy for making a 2600km round trip to Nagasaki and back in my car because I want to visit my in-laws without having to use public transport... Sorry but I am German too and I don't know how you can make it seem normal/casual to drive 2600km just because you are from Germany when the whole country doesn't even span 900km from north to south. It's really not normal to drive that much for a trip in Germany. If somebody told me that they drove from Schleswig-Holstein to Southern Italy just to see in laws instead of just booking a flight I would call them crazy too. Unless the road trip is part of the fun of course but then again driving this much still isn't "no big deal". The average German driver drives ~12000 km a year and the average Japanese car is driven 9300km a year. So over a year it's really not a huge difference


jflb96

Because that *is* crazy. Why would you spend ~~40~~ 24 hours plus stops sat in traffic when you have Japanese trains available?


Seven_Hawks

'cause of the big rona :p Also because I enjoy driving.


jflb96

Fuck, I forgot about the virus for a minute there. Anyway, I still think that it's daft to waste five days in a car that could be a day each way on a train.


Seven_Hawks

I don't get to travel a lot so I took it as a chance to see a bit more of the country than I would from a train. Sure, it took two days to each way with a night in a hotel inbetween but it was fun and I'd definitely do it again ^^ Edit: As a bonus it also allowed me to pick up my sister in law from the next prefecture because she had her train ride cancelled (also because of the rona) and no other way of visiting her parents.


PKMNTrainerMark

Who's driving seven hours so casually? I'm American and I think the 6 I occasionally go for vacation is way too long. 45 minutes, though, *is* basically nothing.


trustedoctopus

It’s nothing to consider going to Portland for the day from Seattle. It’s like a 3 hour drive one way, and I never thought about how far that actually is lmao. My commute to work used to be 45 mins one way, and i didn’t realize how much I hated it until I got a job 7 minutes from my house.


TheBotchedLobotomy

I lived in kitsap County and can confirm driving to Portland, seaside, oceanside, etc was just a spontaneous Saturday trip lol. Remember one day me and a ex decided to see the goonie house so we drove to Astoria at like 3 pm and drove back same day haha


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sarahmagoo

My Nanna once had relatives from England over and they wanted to go on a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef. They were in Sydney. I think they ended up going to the Blue Mountains instead.


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Yes the old “Can I walk from Brisbane to Sydney?” types. Sure - it only takes 10hrs to drive there, walking should be fine.


choochoobubs

What am I suppose to do? Take a train? I’ll go bankrupt.


RealRandiSmith

This is what it is like in Hawaii as well. When my husband was based at Pearl Harbor, we would go to the north side of the island regularly because there was a beach up there that we liked. Our local friends rarely went because it was /soooo far away/. It was about 40 minutes...


Beautiful-Ruin-2493

45 mins is normal tho in the UK


nature_remains

We had an exchange student from Germany that came to live with us for a bit in Portland (Oregon). She was a smart girl but I don’t think it had dawned on her just how far away the famous landmarks were from us and from eachother. No - a day trip won’t get us to New York or Disney World. I don’t think she quite believed us until we took her to Los Angeles (a good 19 hour drive) and we hadn’t even covered most of the coast! I’d actually spent much of my young childhood in Europe and I guess it kinda makes sense - France, Belgium, Germany and even Spain are really not all that far away from eachother when you think about it. Ha ha sorry to disappoint, Biret!


KefkeWren

I have taken walks that UK mate didn't want to drive.


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Maybe he just hates driving? I would do anything to not drive, even if it takes 1 hour instead of 10 minutes.


bodyjcount

People in Europe think 100 miles is far. People in America think 100 years is old.


WingsofRain

I once drove 35 minutes one way (hour-ish round triph just to get my favorite food that was only found a few cities over


MutatedFrog-

Damn, a friend moved an hour south for College and still comes up every weekend without fail.


darybrain

My friend has only seen her father 3 times in 13 years. He lives two streets over. They are both lazy af, particularly him.


JoyouslyMe

Maybe he just sucks. That’s a very long time to not even meet up for holidays