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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I could not fathom driving a hour to gym. Convenience is key, to me. I live three blocks from my gym, but I only use it when the weather precludes me from running outside of doors, which is rare. I have a small window within to exercise, and I'm looking for any excuse to not do it, and so two hours of travel is such an easy excuse.

That being said, I live in Jersey, and to me, a drive beyond 30 minutes needs to really be a worthwhile destination, so it definitely matters where you're from. I visited some friends in Montana and the joke was that everything is two hours away. Wanna climb? Two hours. Float? Two hours. Airport? Obviously, two hours.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    lol .... this is Canada and in rural southern Ontario in farm country by default, everything is one hour away.

    I live in far northern Ontario about an hour for any major city - a convenience store and a pizza joint is five minutes away - everything else is two hours away. Away from the cities in Canada, we measure distance by time ... we don't measure in miles or kilometers, we usually measure distance by the hour.

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