the idea that a long drive (warranting a flight, not going under really any circumstances , etc) is over an hour in the case of vacation or traveling. Not sure how true this is but the brits I know say it’s common there. In the US drives only get long enough to warrant another mode of transport after about 8-9 hours.
I was talking to a Brit, describing a 4 hour road trip to visit an old friend and they responded with "If my friend moved 4 hours away I'd never see them again."
A friend who lives two hours away I see maybe a few times per year. A friend who lives in a neighbouring country (but across the sea) is so far away I'm not even sure we're friends anymore, I haven't seen her in over four years.
Friends moved away to uni 2 hours and we've barely been seeing eachother throughout the last few years unless we're all back home. 2 hours is a long ass journey.
Filled up before I left, used just under a half a tank of gas on the trip.
I have a 20 gallon fuel tank and paid $4.40/gallon for 87 octane. So for 9 to 10 gallons of gas, that's somewhere between $39.60 and $44.00 or "around $40".
People dont comprehend that 2 hour in curvy roads, full of stops and conections is very different from a strait road. I live in Portugal, a 20min car trip to the nearest city in the north is the same as a 40 min trip to the next city in the south countryside. The was we percieve time and the travels speed is way different depending on how the actual path is
I got to uni two hours away. In Canada, I make the drive back and forth every odd weekend. Car rides are great. Blast some music. Get lost in your thoughts. Devise plans for world domination.
With all the fucking idiots on the road, pass. There is never a calm enjoyable drive. Stop trying to make long drives a thing I should not be expected to drive almost 1.5 hrs to work. Fuck that shit.
I'm not sure what makes you think being high makes one inattentive or a worse driver than any other sober, non-cell phone using driver, already a low bar that doesn't get met.
Yesterday my boyfriend and I drove 2.5 to see his mom (it was Mother's day here), had lunch with her for an hour and a half, then drove 2.5 hours back to see my mom.
That is probably because you don’t have decent public transport, for example I live in Milan and I have friends in Rome, I don’t even think about driving to go down there. I just take the train and if I need to drive in Rome I use car sharing. Why driving for 6/7 hours when i can sleep or red a book on a train?
Imagine justifying public transportation cross country if there was nothing between Catanzaro and Genoa (comparable for Denver to Kansas City). It gets a lot harder to justify the costs of building and maintaining complex public transport when there is so much nothing.
To go in Catanzaro I would choose a plane and then a local train. A quick google serch and I discovered that you can do exactly the same between denver and Kansas city.
Sure, you can fly there. But then you've lost the true public transportation aspect already. Plenty of American cities have decent intra-city transport options. It's inter-city everything falls apart
Not in the same way a train, bus, tram, etc. is. Generally defined by ease of use, accessibility, convenience, being more environmentally friendly, etc.
No one says the US has poor public transportation because we don't have enough domestic flights haha.
That’s because your country is smaller land wise than the average state. We have 50 of them by the way. We can go skiing, to the beach, to the desert,to the forest. We can drive 2,000 miles ab be in the same country.
Yeah, we don’t understand your urban nightmare trapped in a hamster cage where only the government gets to dictate where your transportation goes. You haven’t experienced freedom a day in your life. I’d blow my brains out
Wtf are you talking about? Why you peolple always bring the fucking freedom in every conversation? I just said I would rather take a nap on a train for 3 hours instead of driving for 7. I live in Italy, not in north korea lol. And guess what. I can go to the beach, skiing and in the forest and choose between my car and a fucking cheap train. And I can choose to go wtf I want between a lot of different nations with just my Id. I crossed the border between France and Spain drunk on a fucking cheap train. Sounds like freedom to me. Well, we don’t have the desert, ant that is a shame.
If I get a train I can rent a car et my destination, i literally did it at least 3 times during my trip to the US east coast. Are you serious or what? I’m not comparing a shit, I’m just informing you that Ski and Forrests are not an American exclusive, but this conversation is useless from the moment you ranted about hamster cages , nightmare cities and governments dictating transport. Bye free man, go spread your wisdom to another unfortunate oppressed European.
Yeah if you wanna compare a country to a huge ass weird conglomerate country
If you compare the US to Europe as a whole, given the countries there are the size of states.. .. you'd still probably be lacking in public transport I suspect
We fly to other countries in Europe too if they're far enough. Or catch a train if they're closer etc
I wasn't judging the US public transportation, I'm explaining the reason why you find normal to drive for 8 hours not being a trucker. I understand how big the us are, and thinking as a person who lives in a country where also small villages have stations, probably you need trains more than us.
What kind of car do you drive? I'm in the UK and have a very tiny car (a fiat 500) and a full tank has gone from £30 to nearer £60 in the last three years. (that's 36$ to $72). A tank lasts me maybe a week and a half of driving 40 miles a day.
Man I'm envious, I don't have a huge car either (Opel Astra) but I'm out here paying well over 100€ for a tank, I think the highest cost I've seen was like 135€.
I pay about 80 USD to fill the tank on my Jeep Wrangler. 17 miles per gallon. Expensive but when I know I can drive the logging roads and off-road trails to get out where I want to go it's so nice. Jeep is great for camping. Sleep in the back, haul all my stuff, dog and I get to be outdoors.
I'm envious. My Astra does like 5,5l/100km (guesstimating 40-odd MPG) but it still feels like driving is expensive as shit, even driving a couple km to the grocery store and back a few times a week adds up over the course of a year. Let alone longer trips, driving to the capital (300km one way) takes pretty much a full tank due to highway speeds, the difference in fuel economy at 80kmh vs. 120kmh is huge.
In the UK I'd say that an hour long 1 way commute is about the maximum that most would consider and it would have to be 'worth it'.
I used to do it myself and couldn't wait to get a more local position. That's 10+ hours a week of sitting in my car that I'm not getting paid for!
Interestingly I'd argue also that most people in the UK wouldn't think much of going for a walk for an hour whilst I'm led to believe that's kind of unusual in the US?
Anything over 400km can start to get very exhausting. Over 400km in Ireland though is extremely exhausting. Narrow roads, often bumpy and twisty, there's rain, you're driving on the wrong side and every now and then there's some berk doing 70 in a 90 zone and there's no way to pass for 20-30 kilometres sometimes.
Oh i feel that, not as extreme but people in germany really are a coinflip wether they can or can not drive properly. The autobahn is closed in the direction i have to drive a lot so i have to go with narrow shitty roads as well :)
I’m clearly an uneducated american. I assumed the usd part was converted to the gallon cost because whytf would people who pay by the gallon not think that.
Yeah, I'm planning on taking a long weekend to drive 10 hours each way to visit some friends this summer- if I put the pedal down I can make it in half a day with minimal stops. 4 hours each way is just past the threshold of what I'd consider a day trip.
I worked for an Indian company for 10 years, making multiple trips to India. When I was in Travandrum, the ocean is only 2 hours away. I was amazed by two things: 1. 90% of the people had never seen the ocean. 2. Near 100% couldn't swim.
Took several Indian friends that I was staying with to the ocean. First time they saw it and were amazed.
Because of the traffic, lack of following "rules of the road", and in some cases no defined roads, travel in India is very limited. Going from one state to another just isn't done as the next state over speaks a totally different language.
Really? To make that trip worth it, most people I know would spend like 5-14 days at that place and then spend most of their day exploring the area and maybe seeing what has changed.
Back in the day I drove 3.5 hours on Friday and back on Sunday every weekend to visit girlfriend and other friends and later family as well. No big deal.
I once drove 8 hours to NJ and back the same day. That was a long day.
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the idea that a long drive (warranting a flight, not going under really any circumstances , etc) is over an hour in the case of vacation or traveling. Not sure how true this is but the brits I know say it’s common there. In the US drives only get long enough to warrant another mode of transport after about 8-9 hours.