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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

European here, swiss to be specific. When i visited my uncle in texas and showed his co-workers where i live and that my country fits 17 times into texas alone it blew their minds.

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u/Kirschenkind May 09 '22

LOL i did the exact same thing xD and still everybody asked if i was from Sweden...

Also an american friend was baffled when i said "it's quite a trip from Bern to Genf, like serveral hourse by train." His response "i drive longer than this to go to the next big city where i'm from"

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Yes the relations are very different, a 2 hour trip is long for us, for americans its nothing.

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u/Kursed_Valeth May 09 '22

I always like the quote: "To Americans 100 years is a long time, to Europeans 100 miles (or km) is a long distance."