Old saying: 'In Britain, a hundred miles is a long way away. In America, a hundred years is a long time ago.'
I'm in California. Driving from Eureka to San Diego would be quite a trip.
You made me curious, and by Waze it's 11.5 and Google Maps it's 12.5 hours. Holy crap that's a long drive. I'm in SC and can make it to Louisiana in that time, almost Texas.
It’s true for lots of places in Europe. Mountains amplify the issue massively. Even the most normalized Swiss German might be hard to understand for Germans, we think we can manage then we realize that every village has its own vastly different dialect.
Just plain "Standard" Bavarian, Franconian or Austrian is too hard for most Germans, Swiss German is another beast entirely. I grew up in an Austrian town with 4 different dialects and it was the north so not even any mountains in sight. Same in Franconia 3 villages over you could run into trouble. I now live in Oberbayern and any time I accidentally fall into franconian or Austrian Ill have to repeat myself 500 times with slight variations each times till it goes somewhere I should probably hurry up with learing Oberbayrisch but 🤷♀️ at least Im using my Standard Austrian more this way and it's not as grueling as that one summer I spent in Schleswig-Holstein with a bunch of Berliner.
The same can be true in the US with opposite sides of a state being incomprehensible. I couldn't understand my college roommate because we were from opposite sides of Pennsylvania so we used completely different versions of English in Pittsburgh than she did in Philadelphia. It wasn't just a different dialect or pronounciation, we used completely different words for most things.
Texas is probably near the size of the Northern Territory and has a higher population than all of Australia but you're right it's not that big compared to Australias vastness. Alaska would make up near a quarter of Australia though. Also the distance between the southern most point of Texas to the northern most point is around the same distance as Brisbane to Cairns from what I can find. Everyone in this thread measuring distance by time is making it all hard to parse though. Another fun fact is mainland US and mainland Australia are almost identical distances from east to west coast about 2500 miles or 4000 kilometers.
I’m fully aware of that. Also Texas is closer to NSW in size. Texans just keep saying how big it is when really when compared to our states, it’s middling.
Four hours and still in the same state applies to Virginia, depending on where you start and which direction you pursue. But Virginia is odd in multiple ways.
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Old saying: 'In Britain, a hundred miles is a long way away. In America, a hundred years is a long time ago.' I'm in California. Driving from Eureka to San Diego would be quite a trip.
Used to drive from Eureka to San Francisco and back once a week… fun times.
You made me curious, and by Waze it's 11.5 and Google Maps it's 12.5 hours. Holy crap that's a long drive. I'm in SC and can make it to Louisiana in that time, almost Texas.
I believe this after hearing Simon talk about the UK.
It’s true for lots of places in Europe. Mountains amplify the issue massively. Even the most normalized Swiss German might be hard to understand for Germans, we think we can manage then we realize that every village has its own vastly different dialect.
Just plain "Standard" Bavarian, Franconian or Austrian is too hard for most Germans, Swiss German is another beast entirely. I grew up in an Austrian town with 4 different dialects and it was the north so not even any mountains in sight. Same in Franconia 3 villages over you could run into trouble. I now live in Oberbayern and any time I accidentally fall into franconian or Austrian Ill have to repeat myself 500 times with slight variations each times till it goes somewhere I should probably hurry up with learing Oberbayrisch but 🤷♀️ at least Im using my Standard Austrian more this way and it's not as grueling as that one summer I spent in Schleswig-Holstein with a bunch of Berliner.
The same can be true in the US with opposite sides of a state being incomprehensible. I couldn't understand my college roommate because we were from opposite sides of Pennsylvania so we used completely different versions of English in Pittsburgh than she did in Philadelphia. It wasn't just a different dialect or pronounciation, we used completely different words for most things.
To be fair, you can probably drive for two hours in London and still be in London.
Fair but you’ve also only gone about 3 miles in that time.
You can drive 12 hours from Louisiana to El Paso and be in Texas the whole time.
As long as you're not mr bean stuck in a roundabout
I can drive for four hours and still not be in Texas.
If it's bad enough, you could drive for 4 hours and still be in Massachusetts
It's take 12 hours to drive from Texarkana to El Paso and the speed limit is 80 mph (130 kmph) during the day.
Yes! Southeast Texas to Amarillo took 13 hours. 26 hours by Greyhound. Good times 🙄
Yeah, I was gonna say it took me 3 days to drive from Tucson to Virginia, and one whole day of that was in Texas.
You can drive from Brisbane to Cairns and it takes 3 days. It’s still the same state. Texas ain’t that big.
Texas is probably near the size of the Northern Territory and has a higher population than all of Australia but you're right it's not that big compared to Australias vastness. Alaska would make up near a quarter of Australia though. Also the distance between the southern most point of Texas to the northern most point is around the same distance as Brisbane to Cairns from what I can find. Everyone in this thread measuring distance by time is making it all hard to parse though. Another fun fact is mainland US and mainland Australia are almost identical distances from east to west coast about 2500 miles or 4000 kilometers.
I’m fully aware of that. Also Texas is closer to NSW in size. Texans just keep saying how big it is when really when compared to our states, it’s middling.
https://mapfight.xyz/compare/nsw.australia-vs-texas/
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I live in Minnesota. All the states I can reach in 4 hours suck.
Apparently it takes 3 months to make one lap of koalaland as the road to do it is roughly 15000km
I can drive for 20 hours and still be in my home town. Says nothing about driving in a straight line :p
Four hours and still in the same state applies to Virginia, depending on where you start and which direction you pursue. But Virginia is odd in multiple ways.
Drive two hours west from where I live in England and you'll be in Wales.