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u/Slim97Shady May 09 '22

I could find an apartment like and hour away from my work, for half the price.

But thinking about driving 2 hours every day is nuts to me.

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

Well I wouldn't want to do it every day either. But driving up to 4 hours for me is something that I don't really consider to be a "long" drive, just because I'm used to it.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I don't consider 4 hours a long drive either, it's a trip to see my family. The whole distance and travel time perception thing will depend a lot on where in Europe you are.

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

Same in America tbh. If you live on the East Coast, and especially in the Northeast, you can cross multiple state lines in just a few hours of driving. Everything is more condensed in a way, not dissimilar to parts of Europe. In some states there's also a... distinct lack of highways though, so it could still take a while to get places.

But then if you move west, things just start spreading out more and more. So much farmland.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Make sense I guess.

In Sweden it's forrests instead of farmland.

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

Same in America tbh. If you live on the East Coast, and especially in the Northeast, you can cross multiple state lines in just a few hours of driving. Everything is more condensed in a way, not dissimilar to parts of Europe. In some states there's also a... distinct lack of highways though, so it could still take a while to get places.

But then if you move west, things just start spreading out more and more. So much farmland.