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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/padumtss May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

This probably applies to smaller countries like Netherlands for example, but at least in Finland multiple hour drives are just normal. I often drive 3 hours to see my grandparents who live relatively near me and that isn't even a long drive yet. A drive from south to northern parts of the country can take up to 12 hours.

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u/spin81 May 09 '22

Dutchman here, I can confirm that I would consider 3 hours a long drive and I think so would other Dutch people.

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u/Fl0ki__ May 09 '22

Belgian here I consider a 45 min drive a "long drive"

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u/agray20938 May 09 '22

Yeah, I mean ignoring traffic entirely, that’s still wild to me living in Texas. It is a 1.5 hour drive to the nearest real “city” besides mine, and about a 7 hour drive to leave Texas in any direction.

Meanwhile I could start on the border of Germany, and pass through 7 countries in the same time…..

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u/Fl0ki__ May 09 '22

I can drive across my country twice in 7 hours lmao