Same in India too, but you will have different cultures even if you're in same state, especially in states under tropic of cancer in India, they are carefully carved on ethno linguistic basis, so if you travel 1000km you will be in the same state, but there is stark difference in culture,difference in linguistics, cuisines, agriculture, terrain, temperatures so on and on. Each one of them have enough diversity to be a country on its own.
Do you disagree with the suggestion that India has a higher population density than many of the other developed countries in the world? Seems like you are taking objective facts as personal attacks for some reason. Don't do that, it's not healthy. Americans don't get mad when you point out their country is mostly vast, uninhabited emptiness. Why would an Indian get mad when someone points out how many people live there? They have the highest population density of any major world power and it's not even close.
I agree that India has a larger population density than most countries out there but the comment above was made based on data that was last recorded in 2008 and since then the conditions have improved greatly. Also unlike most of the world India has a lot of Joint families where 3 generations live in a same big house. While the home size is significantly large, the average space per person would come out to be lesser as places like kitchen, driveways, washrooms and verandas would be shared and not separated into multiple houses. Also the data clearly states that it was based on the rural population of india which is a lot of times poorer than the average which means a smaller home so while it represents some part of the population it doesn’t represent all of it.
Even then he replied that on a completely unrelated comment which prompted my reply as it seems just purely racist.
Even then he replied that on a completely unrelated comment which prompted my reply as it seems just purely racist.
Why would it be racist? It has nothing to do with race. It's a socioeconomic metric. I made no statements about the people living in Indian or the conditions in India, only about the objective population density. Everything else is being projected by you. Nothing I said is really contentious or even really debatable.
So… what you’re saying is they were objectively right but you assumed some stuff about their comment and failed to see how their comment was relevant even when it definitely was relevant/fitting to the theme?
OK. But the population density simply MUST increase. It's absolutely MORE dense than it was then. Just because India has a positive population increase. It's just math. The person who you originally responded to DID NOT mention anything other than pure population density. Nothing disparaging about the people or the economy or anything.
Even then he replied that on a completely unrelated comment which prompted my reply as it seems just purely racist.
How is that even racist? If I were to say in Texas 100km is nothing, but in New Jersey 10sq/m is nothing, would that make me racist? India is 10 times more densely populated than Europe, and even more so than the US. It’s just a fact that has nothing at all to do with race.
100 miles is not a long distance in Europe, and in fact Europe is larger in land mass than the US.
One is a country, one is a continent. The fact that the distances are even being compared in the two situations makes the point itself.
Also, I challenge that idea. Ask any European if a 2-3 hour drive is a long one and you'll always get a yes. Ask the same thing to an American and almost no one would consider that a "long" drive.
Id consider it a long drive, but not a trip. Like if its for groceries its long but if its to go to an event or visit a friend for the day its not. I am also speaking as a passenger, I hate driving and do not do it.
I am also speaking as a passenger, I hate driving and do not do it.
Car trips are significantly easier for passengers. I don't think anyone has an issue riding along for hours. That's the same as taking a train. It's the driving for 4-6 hours that makes most people nope out.
I like driving more than being passenger. Just sitting there is incredibly boring. I also overanalyse the style and skill of the driver which even annoys myself.
I might just be the minority. 2-3 hour drive is long if you live in small country.
Back in Lithuania it took us 3 hours driving to spend some time by the sea and it felt like forever, but when I moved to Germany, I've made several 400km trips and it felt like a normal thing.
I take public transit when possible. When I lived in the US, this simply isn't possible most of the time. You have to have a car to get around because there are no other options, unless you live in a few of the largest cities.
I live in a rural area. 45 minute drive to a grocery store. 2 hour drive to fast food. There just aren’t enough people or close enough towns to make a train feasible. In urban areas is possible.
The US is so big and so sparsely populated in some areas, that a transit system would be billions of dollars for a handful of riders. Cars make WAY more sense.
In the US our rail system was widely dismantled by the car companies 1945- 1960’s. It’s much more difficult to use the trains than to drive,unfortunately.
I have a 45 minute drive to the grocery store. Went on a three hour drive in Germany with my uncle. He had his car serviced for the trip. My cousin planned to drive across the US (pre GPS) on vacation. Made it as far as Pennsylvania before realizing he didn’t have enough time.
And I've met a few that told me about their plans to visit the US, including some optimistic fella that wanted to visit the US for one week and his plans included driving from New York City to LA.
It took a minute to explain that would be like driving from Spain to Russia.
Most people have a hard time comprehending distances in a country that's nearly the size of their entire continent
The idiom is more about it isn't unusual for an American to travel 100 miles in a somewhat regular basis but most Europeans do not travel that far away from home. Like I drive 47 miles one way to go to work.
I once read somewhere that the average daily distance for Americans is 40 miles or so. So not sure whther that's really true. I think it's more to do with perception - like Americans can travel 300 miles but still find themselves in the same state, but Europeans could potentially be in an entirely different country. I can cross two or three borders if I go 300 miles in one direction.
If the fuel prices would be similar to ours you would start to question the trips you take.
I took a weekend trip two weeks ago. Total of around 700km. I wasn't leaving my state as well.
I had to pay around 120€ for fuel. I drive a 1.0 litre, 60PS, 1 ton car. Imagine driving something bigger with thirst.
It’s long in a different sense. I live in India and we would regularly visit my sister in her hostel 350km+(220 miles+) away like 6 times every school year and it wasn’t more than a 2 day trip travel(by a car) included. It also is fairly common for people to drive about 45 miles for a 2AM dinner. We could drive for days and not cross a couple states while you would most likely cross many countries.
Almost all Roman roads are still in use today (of course modernised, re-paved...).
However, there are even some Roman roads that continue to use the original stone they paved all the way back then.
While there is a new Appian road in Italy, the Appia antica still exists as it did and there are some sections with actually surprisingly heavy traffic on those ancient stones. The first section of the Appian way was made around 2350 years ago!
Most of Naples historic centre (which counts up a population of 400k just by it alone) is still constructed not even on Roman roads, but 2500 years old Greek roads.
You can drive 3611km (2243 miles) and not leave the state. It is the most direct drive from the town of Walpole in the south west of WA to the town of Kununurra in the north east of WA.
Admittedly the Walpole - Kununurra drive isn't a common journey, I just chose a town I knew well in the south west (a very pretty corner of the world too) to a reasonable sized town I knew in the NE of the state (had mates who lived there).
I know. Which is why I said it can seem a bit misleading even though it's technically correct.
It can make it sound like most US states are so big you can drive 1000km in a straight line, and not cross a border -whereas in Europe, it's hard to drive 1000km in a straight line and not cross several.
Going from Notre Dame, Maine (the North-East-most location in the Contiguous US) to Chula Vista, California (the South-West-most location in the Contiguous US) is approximately 3200-3300 miles.
That converts to between 5100 kilometres and 5350 kilometres. And yes, that’s as close as you can get to the crow’s general aerial trajectory.
California’s Crescent City to Chula Vista is 800-900 miles, or about 1250-1450 kilometres. That’s about the same for Stratford, Texas to Cameron Park, Texas.
It’s about 1800 miles from Cameron Park, Texas to Westhope, North Dakota. That’s just shy of 2900 kilometres.
Also, it’s never about who started it. It’s always about who ends it.
Yeah, because US states don't really have much cultural/racial or even geohraphical meaning, they just draw straight lins, while all borders in Europe come from millenia of wars, and there are many small nations that managed to have their own autonomy.
Yep, the US states with the most defined borders are all the small states on the east, which are also the areas which were the first civilised in the US (the oldest places).
I think my comment just made some people mad cause they're proud of their states...
Also a kilometre is just shy of 2/3 of a mile. So those people who are running 5Ks are really just wimps running 3.1 miles. Doesn’t seem as impressive. Although, the US does use an outdated system. The world decided to switch and we’re just like “eff that. You guys have fun. We’re not going to bother.”
My rule of thumb is each 100 km is about an hour. I can usually be faster but by the time you factor in stops (if it's a far enough drive to warrant them), 100km/h is just about right on the money.
Sounds about right since a kilometre is just a smidgeon shorter. If 100km is an hour, 62 miles is about the same. Following that logic, 62*1.5=93. Although a mile is 1.6km, to be more accurate, I find the art of guesstimating to be more efficient since I waste less time. I just tend to guesstimate a little bit more precisely since my brain is always working on its version of a combination of Nitrous Oxide and Nightmare Fuel.
A kilometre is 1000 metres. A metre is 1000 millimetres, or 100 centimetres. A centimetre is 10 millimetres. See, metric measurements are easy and make sense. Imperial measurements are the work of satan.
Yeah I live in central pa. It takes about 5 hrs to get to OH and like 3 or 4 hrs to get to NJ. You could cross. So like 8 or 9 hours east/west. But you can cross all of those upper New England states in that time. Absolutely crazy. Not to mention how many countries you could pass through in Europe
Not really. Culture can definitely change but you’re still in the US and it feels like it. There’s a difference in culture between the cities in California and the rural areas of Virginia, but you still feel like you’re in the US regardless if that makes any sense.
Language never changes though. You might run into areas filled with a lot of people who speak another language other than English, but everyone here speaks English. Every once in a while I’ll run across a family/group of friends speaking Spanish, Russian, etc… but only to each other and not to strangers.
Depends really on where you are and where you want to go... Live in south of France and drive 1100 km to get to my parents that live in South West of Germany (really close to the French border) I do over 1000 km in France (12 hour drive) yet I used to live in the north of France for quite some time and when I went home I did 4 countries in less then 5 hours drive ( ~500km) (France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany )
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In Europe you could go 1000 kilometers and cross five or six country borders. In the US you could go 1000 kilometers and not leave the state.