The US has so much space
The US has so much space
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Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat
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Gotta watch out for that one speed camera
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I was coming in with this cause it's straighter haha.
Then see you WA post.
I've done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I'm actually going
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The world bows to Australia
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And there's about a 40% chance to survive the trip.
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Well there's a European country where you need a week long train trip from one part of it to the other.
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So?
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Just take the train...
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn't exist over there.....
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We have trains, they'll just take 2-3x as long.
And I'm not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that'll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.
So yeah, it's an option, just a really crappy one.
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You just check mated yourself, mate
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Took the train from Toronto to NYC in 01. No thanks. Never again. Will drive if I can.
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Even if it was Europe it would be a train from nowhere to nowhere.
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Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.
If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!
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Best I can do is another McMansion.
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The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
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It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.
The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?
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I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
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Manifest fucking destiny/s
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Are you suggesting that more people should live in Texas? I don’t think this is the humanitarian viewpoint that you seem to think it is lol.
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Nothing. I didn't say it was, did I? I just said that the US has an awful lot of space on this planet that is home to all of us and still can't manage to house people.
Come to think of it, I said everything besides space was the issue, didn't I?
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Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked 😂
A French person takes the high speed train lmao
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Oh, hon hon.
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high speed train
lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.
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The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances
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Oh it's a scenic ocean view instead of desert followed by dirty roads. I wonder which one should I pick.
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I mean even discounting the view, I've of them is in Texas, yuck
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Sweden is like a long penis that some Europeans can comprehend.
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I'm conflicted is comparing a whole country travel distance to a state the same or I'm missing something? Genuinely curious. If we are talking about size of just a state do we Europeans have anything close to it?
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Texas is one state.
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And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
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Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
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Those paycheck advance places were the monsters...
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Best I can do is a lifted truck with Monster energy drink decals. Take it or leave it
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Especially when you get to the desert biome of west Texas.
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Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
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Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel's airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.
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Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
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Maybe not most of America but LA has some famously grueling traffic.
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You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there's very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
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I, a German, am also struggling with travel times/distances in Britain.
Me: (looks at map) I should be there in 1h tops.
Hours pass…
Me: I’m only half way there? WTF!
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We have that in Texas too.
There are millions of cars in the Austin area, and at any given time all of them are on Mopac.
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My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
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To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
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Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that's not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
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americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we're not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we're able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
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Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.
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Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.
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It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)
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Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
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Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!
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I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)
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Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
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Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:
As usual, California beats Texas
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Is Arizona in California now?
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Yeah, it was annexed yesterday.
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Texas mfs in tears rn, the one advantage they had (size) has also been usurped by the californiatards
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Dumbass
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All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it's fair to say that's the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
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Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
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This is in one state.
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That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It's not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
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Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
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The 51st state is part of the USA, that's the whole point of this post. The Euros just can't grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke....
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I don't want to sound rude here but the meme is about not leaving the same state a whole Italy drive seems unfair.
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You've shall selected the longer route of the available options. There OP is the shortest route being nearly a straight shot drive
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The shortest route in this picture is still 14h though
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the shortest route is still 14hr38 mins
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There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.
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Alaskans would like to have a word
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I actually don't, how do you get to the other city? i assume there has to be some way.
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Air, sea and river.
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Flying, probably.
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Tectonic plate shifts
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Does it really count if you're taking a ferry? You're not even driving and your car gets to rest like it just pulled an 12 hour shift.
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That's multiple countries....
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No, but he spends half the time on a ferry.
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834miles? Is that a joke?
That's only 12hrs if you drive the speed limit
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European here (Brit).
I detect a lie. You aren't in Europe anymore. Sorry that your stupid brethren voted you out, but you're just not. Hope you have a good day!
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I didn't realise that.
You heard him, lads. We can stick a big sail in the middle of the Peak District, and fuck off to sunnier climes!
The people on the Calais ferry are going to be surprised as fuck to set out to sea one day and see that we've finally gone.
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Sitting in traffic doesn't count, XD
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No need for the M60. This can easily happen on Gods punishment of the English for what they did to the Irish AKA the London Orbital Parkway.
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Welcome to Finland.
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Except Finland is a country and Texas is just one state in a country. That's where the confusion usually results.
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While the legal and cultural dynamics are different, the EU/member states are comparable to the US and it's states. I think if you're talking about "the European mind" as opposed to the "American", it seems fair to compare all of Europe to all of (North) America, no? Otherwise there is no analogue to US states in Europe, there are just countries and their (variously named) counties etc.
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Isn't Texas the state that in High school was voted "Most likely to secede"?
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Even the wee UK has (slightly implausible) drives this long. The distance is less - but our roads are shit! 😂
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Yours are shit? Just wait until you come here to Czechia (not really a long drive but your car's suspension will definitely be nearly dead)
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That drives you through two different countries, imagine if you started and ended that drive in North Yorkshire driving in a straight line. I think this is what they meant by "the European mind cannot comprehend" shoutout.
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If I could move to any country in the world, it would be Finland. Cleanest air and water in the world. Here in salt lake city Utah, we have a magnesium facility for national security purposes due to China cornering the market that puts a lot of very nasty stuff in the air. Due to our geography of a valley surrounded by mountains, in the winter sometimes inversions happen and that + all the other airborne pollutants will be trapped & the citizenry gets to breath that 😅😂
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Fastest route from south of Norway to north of Norway would be through Sweden and take you 1 day and 6 hours, if you want to stay in Norway for the whole route it would take you 1 day and 11 hours. Driving to Rome would be faster.
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You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.
You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.
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Also, if you're in Texas and you have the will to drive 13 hours, I imagine you'd want to leave Texas.
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i can drive for 13 hours and not leave my driveway (i dont know how to drive)
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You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:
Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
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Well let me blow your mind by rotating my phone;)
(Also the ferry kinda cracks the comparison)
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I saw a unicorn today.
To the the only phone user in existence that understands that landscape mode is a thing: I salute you.
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Yeah, even from Blaine WA to Key West FL is 5772km/54 hours.
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A lot of you guys sharing pictures of your whole country as a 15 hour drive are missing the point here.
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The European mind can't comprehend it
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I mean...apparently, yeah.
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We're just optimistic federalists
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Yes, I can nearly feel my European mind shambling.
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That's your entire country. This is just Texas.
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And we've got 49 more where that came from
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I was not referrring to the headline of the post; I am well aware of the size of the US. I was referring to the low-brow text on the post's image.
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Giggles in aussie
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Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don't. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
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I met some Brits on a flight back to Aus and they were a bit confused…
They thought they would be having breakfast at Bondi, bushwalk and picnic in the Blue Mountains then drive down to Melbourne for dinner and back to their hotel in Sydney.
That’s around 20 hours of driving not including stops.
They really didn’t comprehend the scale.
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Now someone reverse it for me, what's the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?
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Best bet might be the Balkans. Lots of countries between Hungary and Greece and not a huge distance, although it's hampered by a lack of fast roads.
Are you obeying the speed limits or Cannonball Running it?
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Hadn't really thought about it, I guess speed limits? As long as the same system is used for the Texas and the Balkan drive.
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"In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
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Not europe
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Correct! That's very good for an American :)
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Is it at least scenic? Driving to El paso is so boring! If you don't have satellite radio, or music downloaded on your phone, the radio takes a shit half way through.
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The coast road is very scenic, heaps of little beach towns to stop in at :)
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The coast road is very scenic, heaps of little beach towns to stop in at :)
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Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.
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Texas highways have speed limits of up to 137kph (85mph), with most a little lower at 120kph (75mph). Autobahn "recommended" speed is 130kph (80mph).
While the Autobahn unrestricted areas have no speed limit, Texas drivers essentially always drive at least 10% over the speed limit and often reach speeds of 145kph (90mph) to 160kph (100mph).
That said, some rural highways are slower at like 88-105kph (55 - 65mph), but people still go much faster than that and only slow down if they think there are police or if they're approaching a small town on the highway where there will definitely be police to enforce the speed limit.
We also manage to get into like 10000x more wreckes than happen on the Autobahn, so that does sometimes slow things down.
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I am curious how true this. All the Europeans on tiktok discussing America (it's a new trend) say we all drive faster than they are used to, and how our speed limits seem to be suggestions to us.
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Europeans on average drive slow, but the comments are about Germans. We are special (in every sense of that word).
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Western Australia has entered the chat
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Was gonna say, just checked Albany to Kununurra and it was 36hrs, 3365kms 😂
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these North Americans sure are cute, aren't they?
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I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I've been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.
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I disagree that N. Dakota exists. There's only one Dakota, and I've met one of the dozen or so residents there.
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You don't even need to go there. Just look at Washington State everyone acts like it's full but over half the goddamn state is fucking empty. It just happens to have a couple large congregations of population in a few particular spots
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Bfd. I can drive 13 hours in Germany from the Dutch border and still be stuck in a fucking traffic jam around Frankfurt on highway 3 and never get to my skiing destination in Austria.
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You can drive for 10 hours and 30 minutes and still be in Germany.
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22 hours from south to northern sweden, and that's basically all on the most important highways of the nation! If you do the trip when no one else is out, that should be a smooth 120km/h alsmost constantly.
And barring some minor projection weirdness, it's slightly longer than the longest distance in texas!
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23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
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Came here for this. Ontario is massive.
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Where is the joke about the famous woman who would just use her jet?
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And that doesn't even include the furthest communities or settlements. just fastest route to the Manitoba border.
There are a lot of communities in Northern Ontario that there are no direct roads to.
Trying to plot a bunch of routes out right now to get an idea and half the routes direct me to drive through the US to save time.
Windsor to Kenora is the longest I've plotted so far at 23 hours
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Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA'ean mind.
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Ok, I will bite. Why do you have faith in a European mind to comprehend distance over an American?
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"AmUriKa dUmB" -likely OP
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That's not to bad
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I miss the days when Google maps would tell you to get in a canoe for transoceanic routes.
I suspect some enterprising person actually tried it, thus depriving the rest of us our directional humor.
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There really is one for everything
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Sure, but I can drive for more than 11 hours and still be in Romania 👍
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There is no escape.
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Okay, but who wants to be in Texas?
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Its hot, humid and flat. No thanks
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In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.
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So 1h30 is long for americans? I don't get it.
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You can do that and still not get all the way through Nordland county (!) in Norway 🤷
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The Euopean mind cannot comprehend having to drive 13 hours for what would take a train only 3
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You can ride train for 16 hours in Poland and still be in Poland
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you can ride the train for 16 hours in britain and still be in london
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oh look, an international dick measuring contest... except without dicks!
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Plenty of dicks here!
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you took to many, put them back!
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Russia is in Europe and probably thinks that's cute.
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Russia is in Asia.
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Only because they don't all have cars. Buuut considering the amount of pollution that happens due to tires and roads n such well.. maybe we should have an overall environmental pollution index vs just looking at greenhouse gasses. I'm very pro public transit infrastructure myself.
"You know a country is great when the wealthy in society use public services like your average working Joe"
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Pfft, come to Ontario Canada, from 2 different boarders you can drive 24 hours and still be in Onterrible
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The Canadians get it. There's only three dots in that Texas route because there's only three places along the route worth being, the start, San Antonio (tacos), and the end.
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half of that time is sitting in san antonio traffic.
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California is wild, it could pretty much be it's own country and it would be like the #5 wealthiest GDP. The government in the state really is like a small country's.
Then there's Alaska which people forget is almost 2x the size of Texas lmao.
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Then there's Alaska, which people forget
It's because practically no one lives there.
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careful, there's a speed trap about 30 mins south of San Jose
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Some people in Daytona Beach can drive 500 miles without even leaving the stadium.
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Fucking eat it Texas!
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Try tiny Norway with 6m people, you can drive 1 day 18 hours (almost 3000km)from the southwest to the northeast, shortest route.
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23 hours is about as high as you are going to get while maintaining a (relatively) straight path. The north is not really accessible by road.
Edit: I take that back. I managed to get up to 27 hours driving from the Ambassador Bridge to Windigo Lake.
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The US has so much space
Yet property is expensive and mostly owned by the wealthy🤦♂️
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Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.
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Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.
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I once drove 6 hours to get out of Texas only to be stuck miles from the border for another 6 hours because three semi-trucks collided and caught fire...
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People need to learn what ragebait means
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California can be "longer". Could probably get to 14 hours.
Smith River to San Ysidro:
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I like that because of the roads it's actually faster to go up into Oregon and back down into California. Hehehe
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Texas is bigger than Germany.
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Once again for those who didn't make it to our last session:
The M25.
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russia. need i say more?
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We should turn the entire desert in Texas into a solar farm, and provide enough electricity for the entire world.
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Solar and wind power is really big in Texas already. Maybe it could be done!
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Fuck that. Texas has a terrible grid, and it isn't integrated with the surrounding states.
Put it in Iowa and Nebraska.
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Okay. Let's do it!
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With a car crappy enough you can take much longer for a much shorter distance
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A German and a Texan meet in a bar.
The Texan says: "When I get in my car and just drive once around my property, it takes all day."
The German says: "Yeah, I had a car like that once."
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If I make sure to leave at peak commute time I’m pretty I can do that just for Paris-Marseille.
Wait just about 100 days and you can make it Paris - Paris.
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I'm Canadian, I drive 17 hours to get to work everyday.
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You know what they say, you drive 2 hour from Toronto and you're still in Toronto.
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Now do Alaska, Im willing to bet that you could find a route that will take a week even in the summer
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Alaska is hard because there are so many cities/towns that aren't a available with a road. Plenty of communities served by boat/plane only.
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There are also ice roads in Alaska. I was going to post my favourite Canadian one, but I can't since it's April. Going from Soutt to North in my province takes 22 hours in the winterm and is impossible in the summer.
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I took the family on vacation to Texas a couple weeks ago. Flew into Houston, stayed there a few nights, then Austin for a few, then Dallas, for a couple then back to Houston for a few more and flew back.
Just mapping out the loop between the three cities is 9.5 hours and 623 miles. Add in slowdowns for poor visibility due to weather, stops to charge and use the restroom (with small kids), it was easily 12 hours, at least, of total road time.
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And this was fun? Did you at least have a camper?
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The driving part wasn't much fun but wasn't that bad either. We'd get the kids good and tired doing fun stuff on City A before driving to City B. Then they had their tablets/switches (and headphones), wife had her audiobooks on headphones, and I'm rocking out with the stereo.
Come to think of it, they put their headphones on after I started rocking out...
Got to see a whole bunch of stuff. Space Museum, Houston Zoo, exploring Downtown Austin, saw the eclipse at the Perot Museum, Houston Museum of Natural Science...plus countless breweries and unique local eateries and shops.
We rented an EV (Mustang Mach-E). Didn't pay for flight, hotels, or car (all points).
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Russia: am I a joke to you?
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On the other hand, when you start from Texline (which I suppose is the starting point of that 13 hour journey) in the northeast of the state, you could easily escape Texas within minutes.
On the other hand, in Europe you can get through a number of countries in thirteen hours just because we have a working road system.
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The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world. Say what you want about our lack of public transportation, but we're a country built for cars. Vroom, vroom, motherfucker.
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Let's just say that when crossing the Pyrenees you don't want to stray from the main north-south(ish) roads...
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Yeah, well, I can drive 1 hour and cross 3 borders. And I won't have to go through an immigration/customs checkpoint at any of these borders.
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How about Sweden?
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It seems the European mind is not that bright if you think a country's distance is equivalent to a state.
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laughing cries in Brazilian
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My european mind doesn't give a shit about the us , it doesn't even think of it .
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Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it's possible also in France .
Edit: don't want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
The sun never sets on the
BritishFrench empire!Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya'll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don't even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
french guiana is part of france, and the eu.
You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
You are united states tho. Similiar to EU in 100 years.
About your edit, that's why I added the disclaimer on my first comment lol. I fully knew it would degenerate in a biggest dick contest and wanted to avoid being part of it.
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we're also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
May I present Kiruna to Trelleborg (1882 km) in Sweden?
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don't think a straight road exists here.
1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Nearly all of it is Autobahn. It is basically just road work slowing you down and even that is not too bad.
Just for funsies I looked it up and Miami FL to Seattle WA is a 48 hour drive. Longest I found within the continental US upon a quick googling of recognizable cities.
I did a similar diagonal route across Canada. 84 hours it says.
Now, that starts to be a long distance lmao
Yeah, but you aren't driving that fast in Germany, apparently. The Texas trip will be over 1,400 km.
confused autobahn noises
Ops post would be more effective by stating average speed.
Since we are doing whole countries, you can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and still be in Russia:
I can't even zoom out enough.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours: