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A leisurely trip (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I sadly see this all the time unironically. Met a German family who arrived in North Carolina with plans to go to Disney Land. Not World. Land

"Isn't California just on the other side of the country?"

Yeah it is

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    How do people not check driving times in this modern age?

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    America is pretty unique in size. If you're used to shorter trips even overestimating wouldn't be half the drive through america. Especially Europeans as a long drive is anything over 20m when its measured in hours they're considering booking accommodations for sleep and such. The perception of time is incredibly different.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Unique in size? Lol the US is big, there are lots of other big countries

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's the second biggest "Western" country. It's about twice as big as the EU, about as big as the whole of Europe with about the same population, so it's mostly empty in the middle.

    The obverse would be an American who wants to go to Europe, start out in Madrid, lunch in Copenhagen and fly back from Istambul.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But the US isn't unique in size. It's right next to two big countries, with Canada being even bigger, Europeand are familiar with Russia that's the biggest country in the world, it's not like people don't know about China, Brazil and how they're yuge...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    European here, although our countries are smaller. 20 mins is quite obviously a short drive.

    UK is pretty small but it still takes 7 Hours to get from Glasgow to london and I can't imagine anyone booking overnight accommodation for that drive. That's two major cities with 100% motorway/freeway driving, I haven't even brought up Cornwall.

    I drive 5h for family within England on a monthly basis.

    Your comment is naive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My family that still lives there stay overnight for trips like that. Me on the other hand: drove across Canada and would drive 4 hours, nap for 20 minutes, repeat...because hotels were expensive and my plan of campsite tenting overnight was just too much setup and take down after the first day.

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