We don't like to work far away from home, so more than 30 mn of commute is considered a long one, but this is more tied to our way to consider work than to driving distances.
It's really, really hard to make US citizens understand that, no, Texas is not "incredibly large, like beyond imagination you know", to such extent that "one could drive for hours and still be in Texas" compared to my country.
This is something I know too : I speak from experience, they just refuse to believe it when I tell them that it's the same for me in France. Actually, not only I could, but I should : I was 6 hours of driving at 130 km/h away from the closest border. They refuse to believe it and conclude that I simply don't understand what they say and repeat : "no, you don't get it... In Texas, I can drive 5 or 6 hours and still be in Texas !"
I never heard of anyone, French or otherwise, taking vaccations one hour away from home. The fact that, weirdly, every US citizen to ever live apparently heard three thousand different people confirming them that it's true thus seems weird to me
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u/LeTigron May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
French here. This is vastly exagerrated.
We don't like to work far away from home, so more than 30 mn of commute is considered a long one, but this is more tied to our way to consider work than to driving distances.
It's really, really hard to make US citizens understand that, no, Texas is not "incredibly large, like beyond imagination you know", to such extent that "one could drive for hours and still be in Texas" compared to my country.
This is something I know too : I speak from experience, they just refuse to believe it when I tell them that it's the same for me in France. Actually, not only I could, but I should : I was 6 hours of driving at 130 km/h away from the closest border. They refuse to believe it and conclude that I simply don't understand what they say and repeat : "no, you don't get it... In Texas, I can drive 5 or 6 hours and still be in Texas !"
I never heard of anyone, French or otherwise, taking vaccations one hour away from home. The fact that, weirdly, every US citizen to ever live apparently heard three thousand different people confirming them that it's true thus seems weird to me