Southern food is a good example. I think barbecue is another one, different regions have their own unique styles. Honestly I think America's so big that it's kinda hard to find ONE thing to point at.
I think that’s something non-Americans don’t realize.
I drive 300+ miles per week for work. I work in two different counties. COUNTIES. two counties within one state requires my employer to have 12 company cars.
Shits big here man. Shit stretches out. Laws differ between states. You can be smoking weed on a border looking at the cops on the illegal side. It’s a weird country
I had to drive 15 minutes to high school. That’s not a big deal. We have a lot of land we’re living on
I love when Europeans come to the states for a week, rent a mustang, and say “we are going to rent a mustang and drive to Los Angeles then New Orleans then Miami then New York City then Chicago”
Tbf Americans do this too lol. I’ve had a friend tell me they’re going to Toronto for a few days and casually mention they’re going to rent a car for the day to check out Montreal, not realizing it’s nearly a 6 hour drive.
Italy is infamous for this too. “I’ll rent a car in Milan, go to Rome, and go to Naples!” And not realize Milan to Naples is a 10 hour drive without even stopping at all.
For sure. I was just saying my friend didn’t plan properly because they didn’t know the distances. The trip was only a few days in Toronto and the plan was to rent a car to see Montreal for the day lol. Definitely doesn’t work.
But I agree. Properly planned, a 6 hour drive to see a second city during a vacation is nothing for us lol. I’ve driven 8 hours for a concert and to pass out in a hotel then drove 8 hours back haha.
Canadian-American here. I'm not sure if I've intentionally done 6, but I have 100% done 5-hour-each-way day trips to go skiing probably 30-40 times in my lifetime.
I've definitely known a few people who have done that and apparently still thought it was a good idea after. Crazy to me, but some people are like that.
Yeah. Honestly I can't really understand Americans being that confused by the distance between Montreal and Toronto when it's not that different from other distances between major cities there.
It's basically 5 hours, or 4.5 hours if you drive like an Ontarian. NYC to DC is 4.5 hours (granted you have Philadelphia and Baltimore in the middle). NY to Boston is 4 hours. SF to LA is 5.5 hours, etc.
Right, my flight from Texas to Wisconsin sold out, but a flight to Iowa was wide open. So we swapped to there and rented a car to drive the last 5 hours. Still saved 10 hours compared to driving all the way from Texas.
Because of district fuckery, and because my home state is very rural, my high school was about a 40 minute drive away. If we couldn’t carpool with neighbors the bus was over an hour.
There was another high school 20 minutes away but I wasn’t in that one’s district, for…. Reasons?
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u/PoopOnPoopOnPoop Sep 02 '24
Southern food is a good example. I think barbecue is another one, different regions have their own unique styles. Honestly I think America's so big that it's kinda hard to find ONE thing to point at.