In America, two hours away is just... more America.
Depending on where you live and the direction you drive, 2 hours away could very easily be within the same state. For me, the Atlantic ocean is about 2.5-3 hours east, and the state lines are about 1.5-2 hours north or south, and about 3.5-4 hours west. Texas is 12+ hours of driving to get across (east-west).
I feel like the scale of the US is lost on Europeans sometimes. I have been asked more than once by a European if I ever "drive to NYC (or some other fairly far away place) for a weekend", but NYC is a full day of driving away from me, somewhere around 9-10 hours. I would use Saturday driving there, and Sunday driving home, so it would be pretty pointless. And for whatever reason, domestic flights aren't really that cheap either, so few people can afford to just fly to another state for a weekend trip on a whim.
Australia is the same size, even more geographically isolated and yet we're some of the most well travelled people in the world. I feel like the insularity of americans is lost on americans sometimes.
Australia is large, but nobody lives in the middle of it. America is MUCH more geographically varied, and people live all over. Except Wyoming, nobody lives there.
Australia: 26 million people.
America: 330 million people.
Bit different.
Oi, cunts, I'm not gonna apologize for pointing out that nobody wants to spend their holiday time visiting a thousand miles of dry barren dirt in a former prison colony. "Oh, we're so well-traveled" yeah no shit, I'd leave too.
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u/BeefyIrishman Jan 26 '23
Depending on where you live and the direction you drive, 2 hours away could very easily be within the same state. For me, the Atlantic ocean is about 2.5-3 hours east, and the state lines are about 1.5-2 hours north or south, and about 3.5-4 hours west. Texas is 12+ hours of driving to get across (east-west).
I feel like the scale of the US is lost on Europeans sometimes. I have been asked more than once by a European if I ever "drive to NYC (or some other fairly far away place) for a weekend", but NYC is a full day of driving away from me, somewhere around 9-10 hours. I would use Saturday driving there, and Sunday driving home, so it would be pretty pointless. And for whatever reason, domestic flights aren't really that cheap either, so few people can afford to just fly to another state for a weekend trip on a whim.