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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either
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When I tell American that it takes 6 hours of highway driving to leave my state they are flabbergasted. after 4 hours they might be in the same part of the country but they have probably crossed a few state lines.
Must be talking to east coasters, because there are plenty of US states where that's the case. My state is about 11 hours tall, and 4 hours wide.
A six hour drive is commonly just referred to as going up north for a long weekend.
Thank you for giving me my new default. This party mix of measuring systems sounds way more infuriating to tell people than "about five and a half CDs."
Canadian? Or Florida/Texas? Because the Americans that would have trouble understanding that are likely Northeasterners.
Australian, so about as reliable a source as a random picture on the internet.
This is how I learned Australia has states. Why the fuck do y'all have states? You're one single island with nothing in the middle! I legit thought Queensland was a county til right now!
Also. Why, in Queensland, is there a place called Texas! I'm going to come over there!
Quebec is eternal
Only if you go the wrong way on the only road in Canada.
Gatineau -> Natashquan, 1500km (~940 miles), you're still in the same province... For Europeans, in 1500km you can cross 4 or 5 countries.
Even better, Radisson -> Natashquan, 2200km lol, still in Québec
Canada has provinces and territories, not states.
I live in Alabama, and it takes a little over 6 hours of interstate travel at roughly 70mph to get to Florida, 5.5 hours if you just don’t stop at all. I can hit Georgia in about 2.5 hours. There is no reason to go to Mississippi, so I don’t know. And I think it’s about like 4.5 hours to Tennessee, but once again not many reasons to go there so I’m not sure.
Where are you that’s 4.5 hrs from Tennessee and 6 hours from Florida? I can hit the Florida line from Birmingham in about 3.5, and can be on Nashville in about the same… meaning I can drive from the Tennessee line to Florala in about 6 hours- and that’s the whole state lol.
I’m in Birmingham, but I have 2 kids and a fabled partner. I typed in my address to perdido key and got 5.5 hours nonstop. I used that as a reference because it’s right across the line, and there’s a good reason to be there. That’s why I made the joke of 6.5 hours or 5.5 hours if I don’t stop. I also mentioned that trip was interstate only. There are slightly faster ways to go, but involve leaving the interstate.
I also picked Perdido because when my mom kidnapped me when I was 5 and eventually legally divorced my dad. I had to make the trip every other weekend from Perdido to Birmingham. We would meet halfway in Greenville Alabama. Until I was 8. That’s when she died and I moved back to Birmingham permanently. So, Perdido is a place right across the state line that is familiar to me.
Then I qualified that trip to Tennessee with “I think”, because I am very poor, and just like Mississippi I have no reason to go there even if I had money enough to do so. The last time I went to Tennessee it took like 4.5 hours to get where I was going I think. But, unlike Florida I didn’t care enough to pick a point and actually type it into google maps to figure out the length of time it would take.
So, you caught me. I guesstimated one of my destinations.
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TRY 12 HOURS NON-STOP MOTHERFUCKER. IT TAKES 12 HOURS TO GET FROM ONE SIDE OF MY STATE TO THE NEXT AT SPEEDS RANGING FROM 75MPH/120KM/H TO 90MPH/144KM/H
No, seriously, it's literally over 1,300km (approx 800mi) between Texarkana and El Paso (I believe that's the straight-line distance; it honestly takes longer than 10-ish hours to get from one side to the other without stopping for food, gas or bathrooms). You were probably talking to people from the tiny far-northern states.
If I drive east I can be in my US state for longer than that, fwiw. Granted there's a lot of mountains involved that slow things quite a bit.
I'm guessing Australia?
Really depends on where you are in the US. Northeast, yeah, the states there are relatively small. It takes 3.5 hours on an interstate highway to cross Ohio, a "middle-sized" state. Switch to state roads, and that time frame goes up dramatically.
Yeah Australia is slightly different to the US in that it's huge but there are very few people living here. Take the largest state: Western Australia which is literally 4 times the size of Texas. But do people drive from Adelaide (capital of South Australia) to Perth (capital of Western Australia)? No, not generally. It takes 28 hours of non-stop driving. And the thing is, there is hardly anything in between. This means you have to be careful about fuel stops and maybe even have a satellite phone. Look up the Nullarbor Plain of you're interested.
People "from the country" might drive several hours to visit relatives and you might drive 3-4 hours to go to a camping/holiday destination, but if you're headed to another major city, you are most likely going to fly.
The closest other capital city to Adelaide is Melbourne but that's still ~8 hours away by car. But there is a really nice scenic route called the Great Ocean Road which you would usually do over a a few days.
Why do you go on the internet and lie mate? I'm in Perth quite often pop over to radelaide for a frog cake at smoko. I would recommend anyone after a nice walk just give it a crack, it's like 15mins max. I think they put in a bike path recently too.