In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either

Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time

One thing that came as a culture shock for me is that I'm used to driving like 4 hours to see relatives. And this is usually several times a year. Then I heard from some Britons that they have rarely visit their relatives who are only like a hour drive away. Really messed me up the first time.

There is a story of a guy in England who sent a letter to his friend in Los Angeles. He asked him to "pop in" to New York City to see how his daughter is doing.

The LA guy wrote back and said it would be faster if he went himself.

I really don't think Euros have a solid grasp of the scale of the US.

Shit if you're in Los Angeles, you could spend 4 hours just to move 10 feet.

I hate that people treat the US as if it doesn’t have a wide variety of accents. I can drive an hour in any direction and the people sound different than where I live. A lot of states have their own accents, and there are regional accents within them. I live in Illinois and people from No. IL and Central IL sound completely different from people in So. IL.

Accents get even more differentiated the further North or South you go. PNW sounds different than NE. Etc. The real difference is that a lot of the accents in the US aren’t based on indigenous languages spoken in that region (even though some are), they’re largely based on the group of Europeans that settled in the region.

Americans are very very good at code switching, which is why I think a lot of people think there are only one or two accents.

I once drove for 10 hours in the UK and was still in the same town! That magic roundabout is very confusing.

Pff in Australia I can travel over 2000km in a straight line and never leave my state, and it's not even the biggest.

Traveling across the US is like switching to an alternate dimension where everything is pretty much the same, but a few things are off. Like, Congress is the same, but suddenly there are dunkin' donuts everywhere and the land is weirdly flat

I remember this as, "Europeans think 100 miles is far away, Americans think 100 years is a long time."

You can drive for four hours and still be on I-5 in LA.

Try in Italy, you drive 2 hours and you need subtitles for understanding the tv series filmed in that city

Nothing like driving for 10 hours and still not leaving California or Texas!

Yesterday I drove 4 hours and went from northern Minnesota to slightly-less-northern Minnesota.

And yet high-speed rail is a foreign concept

Fun fact for my fellow Americans the current Cannonball Run (New York City to Long Beach, Ca) record is 25 hours 39 minutes at an average rate of 110 mph.

So you can cross the country in just over a day provided you drive like a bat out of hell.

In LA you have just completed your commute to and from work on a tuesday

My wife and I drove from North Carolina, to Wisconsin, to South Dakota, and back to North Carolina again as a cross country road trip. We drove over four thousand miles.

It was fucking bizarre.

There comes a point where your mind can barely conceive that people are still speaking the same language. I think your monkey brain must assume that once you're far enough away from home, then surely everything and everyone must be a foreigner.

And for sure, there are parts of the United States that seem to be literally foreign to one another, and there are parts of the Midwest that are such titanically empty swathes of corn fields and wind turbines that it seems like one has dropped into a parallel dimension.

But there's something kind of awesome, in the awe-inspiring sense of the word, that it's all one big country, one big union of people who have (more or less) decided to engage in one big human project all together.

I think everyone should have a chance to make such a journey. It really crams the concept of the scale of this country into your consciousness in a way that can't be done without actually covering the mileage, on the ground, for yourself.

Lol try Belgium, where driving 20 minutes is a different dialect and 1-2 hours is a different language.

In Australia, you can FLY for 4 hours and still be in the same state.

I'm a Canadian living in Korea and sometimes have to explain to locals that the reason I've never been to Vancouver is because I lived on the opposite coast and it would take a week to drive there. In Korea, aside from a few outlying islands, you can never be more than four hours away from anywhere else in the country.

We can't stop here, this is bap country.

Things were better back when you could sail around the world for years and never leave the Kingdom.

I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state. It’s weird, man.

(e: I mean no cities, avg 60mph the whole way. So weird.

If you fell asleep at the beginning of a 4 hour drive where I live, and woke up at the end, odds are very very high that you wouldn't be able to tell any difference in the surroundings.

If you're in Los Angeles, you may not have left your county yet

only twice?

India: Drive for a few hours, completely different language, culture, food, dresscode.

If I drive for 4 hours, I may be two countries away.

Twice? Are you driving Stuart Little's car?

Slow your roll 'muricans. I got off a plane in Massachusetts and now I have to order my breakfast sandwich on whatever the fuck a bulkie is instead.

There are different accents in the US. Talk to people from Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, and California, they all sound different with the person from Louisiana probably being the most incomprehensible.

For that matter talk to someone from Dallas, TX and then someone from Tulsa, OK. That's only a 4 1/2 hour drive. They will both sound different. I'm pretty sure there's a different accent in Oklahoma City compared to Tulsa, and a different one in San Antonio compared to Dallas.

Driving 2 hours in the UK doesn't really get you anywhere either.

Not a straight road in that country.

If I drive for 4 hours, I'd end up in the ocean.

2 hours? 30 minutes in some places.

I think you mean the name for barms have changed twice!

OP hasn't been to New Jersey.

4 hours in Canada means you left Toronto and you're still in Toronto.

Meanwhile in Canada, you'll be lucky to make it from one side of Toronto to the other.

I'm pretty sure my father has only ever been in one state over, and that's to visit Vegas. I've been to multiple countries on multiple continents, and I'll continue traveling the world

ITT: americans bragging about having to pay absurd sums of money on a car so they can spend 4 hours per day driving to and from work, when in other countries that would be 2 hours on a train at like a 20th the cost

Baps are Shite way too big for your sausage and drier than all hell when you take a bite and get nothing but bread.

Morning rolls ftw.

I will die on this hill

What a braindead take, everything in the second panel 100% also applies to the first. In fact, the us is more diverse like are you fucking kidding me???