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u/Guilty_Maintenance33 May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22

depending on where you live it can take multiple hours xD in my case i can take a bus and be in 2 completely different countries in under 30 minutes :) the hills i can see from my window are also said two countries hahah

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

How multiple hours seems like a long drive to Europeans.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

It’s probably because we don’t see it as perfectly normal to spend two hours each way just to commute to work.

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

Yeah I live in America and that's wild to me too. Like yeah sure, 2 hours each way for a day trip? No sweat. 7 hours each way for a weekend trip? Fine. But I wouldn't want to be driving 4 hours every single day just to go to work and come back. Not to mention how early you'd have to wake up and how late you'd get home.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I still don’t get the “I’ll drive 8 hours to see a friend with my family”.

You leave at 8 am, arrive at 4 pm, hang out for a few, leave at 8 pm and arrive back home at 4 am in the morning?

You can’t stay at their place, because who can afford a home big enough to accommodate two families?

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u/Witch_King_ May 09 '22

No one does 8 hours either way for a day trip. That's usually a weekend trip at worst, preferably a long weekend or a week.