Driving through Nebraska is literally hell.
laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 21 hours ago
In Europe, 200km is a long distance
In the US, 200 years is a long time
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
i constantly hear stories of Europeans who won’t visit family because the drive is too long. i ask how long and they’re like “20-30 minutes” lmao. it has taken me that long to get to the store in some places I have lived in the US lol
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
On a recent work trip to Atlanta we had an over an hour long Uber ride to go 8 miles…in the suburbs!
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 23 hours ago
Europeans were so insistant on getting freedom of movement in the EU just to not fucking use it.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Good for them dismantling an injustice on principle.
ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That’s true freedom
Miaou@jlai.lu 20 hours ago
We just take the train
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Rural south. I drive 27 minutes to get groceries.
marcos@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
On the other hand, they would need to learn 5 languages in case they need to ask for directions on that travel.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
That’s because you also have an American car.
Badum tss…
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 2 hours ago
Laughs in 1 full day on the road and still in Bahia leaving from the Salvador(Capital) to Itabatã (In the south of the state)
By the way same distance from Germany
aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 2 hours ago
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 22 hours ago
And I would rather be in Germany than any of those states.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Idk I’d rather be in Chicago than certain parts of Germany. Like Berlin or Munich of course are better than anywhere in the US, but small town east Germany? Yeah, I’ll take the good pizza (Chicago bar style) and freshwater sea even if it comes with the drunkest drivers you ever did see
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’d rather have affordable healthcare
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 13 hours ago
Clearly never had good schnitzel.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also possible to drive through about ten countries in 8 hours in Central Europe.
starik@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
This is a shitpost because it’s an inversion of that common observation.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 hours ago
I think any definition of Central Europe that includes 10 countries is really stretching it. Anyway, Poland-Slovakia-Czechia-Austria-Hungary-Slovenia-Croatia-B&H (8) should be barely possible to visit in an 8-hour trip over much of one former big country.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Bavaria, Hessen, Niedersachsen and Hamburg
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
nightlily@leminal.space 13 hours ago
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
At least you have a road that reaches diagonally across WA. If Alaska did it would take a lot longer than that
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That’s a beautiful resort name
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Windsor to Sioux Lookout is similar if you stay in Ontario.
ladel@feddit.uk 1 day ago
The question is, how many states will you visit during that drive through Germany?
Rothe@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Yeah, the creators of the meme kind of bungled the punchline by choosing another federation as the European example. Because you literally will drive through several German states as well.
They should have chosen France or Poland, or Sweden, I think most people underestimates how big Sweden is in an European perspective.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
I mean, it is a shitpost in the shitposting community
Bungling the meme, if anything, is right on brand lol
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
The highlighted route is four states, therefore Deutschland is bigger than USAland.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 23 hours ago
I count 7.
neidu4@piefed.social 23 hours ago
I only count one. Mostly because I only know of one and its location with certainty.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
And at what speed (Autobahn!)
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
Oh yeah? Well where I live I can drive for a solid 24 hours and never leave my county.
Because I live on O’ahu and I’d be driving in circles (or sitting in rush hour traffic coming from Westside into town, yeah)
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Damage@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
This makes Italy smaller than I thought it was tbh
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
what’s the “highway speed” in Italy? Is it 90kph?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
California is pretty similar if you’re going north to South… if you avoid commute hours. Then you’re looking at. 16 hour drive.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I think you can also drive in California in a straight line for 16 hours. I mapped it once during a slow work day lol
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah, I5 will take you from Mexico to Canada. And that drive across CA is long as shit when you’re going north to South.
And CA has some world-famous high-traffic spots around places like LA, which makes it even worse during commute hours.
San Diego to Oregon is, IMHO, better done as a 2 day drive. And both of those days are still going to suck.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
That’s the joke. Americans say Europeans can travel 8 hours and touch x number of states but in America you don’t leave any.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Hop a train, and you’re in another country quick though.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Takes 2 days to drive from Thunder Bay to Toronto.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Another four hours to Cornwall and you are still in Ontario.
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Add Dryden as the start point. :)
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Uh, you can drive for longer than that and still be in the same province here in Canada.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
I recently visited Saskatchewan for a friend’s wedding in a town nearish Saskatoon. Crossing the boarder in North Dakota it was another 8 hours of driving in SK before we reached our destination…which was still in the lowest 1/3 of the province!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Shoulda started on the southern Maine border. You can touch 10 states in about 8 hours. (ME NH MA RI CT NY NJ PA DE MD)
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 20 hours ago
You can fly a passenger plane at full speed in a straight line for 10 hours and still be in France.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They both never leave the country
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Germany has the Autobahn system and thus relatively short travel times. I’m pretty sure even smaller countries like Latvia have two points separated by an 8+ hour drive!
🇱🇻 stronk!
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
A state is part of a country and comparing a state to a country in this context didn’t make sense. “Hey this subregion is smaller than your region”. In the same area you drive through at least 4 Germany states.
If you really want to play look at this.
22h without leaving a single Canadian province maps.app.goo.gl/2vWuVHRCt4F8ckSL8?g_st=ac
Fermenade@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Well… as there is no speed limit on german highways, you could theoretically visit every part of germany within ten minutes including one trip to a doener-man, to get a doener.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bullshit on the first panel, that’s driving through the narrow part of Michigan, slivers of the narrow parts of 2 states, and a sliver of Illinois. Which is only four states. Texas is an obvious example of a long drive, but also try going through Georgia, lengthwise. That’s at least a 7 hour drive.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Looks like Hamburg to Munich, the highlighted route goes through HH, NI, HE and BY, four states.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
When you drive though Montana lengthwise, it just never seems to end. And sometime youre driving for hours and the only part of the scenery that changes is the position of the sun.
DragonAce@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It takes 14 hours to drive all they way through Florida, north to south
hamsamrich@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The difference is measurable!
cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This reminds me that I really want to take a road trip through New England sometime.
victorz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Or how about Sweden, more than 20h from top to bottom.
klankin@piefed.ca 23 hours ago
Not enough roads up north for it to be possible, but its technically further for me to cross my province than it would be to get to, and cross Texas (the wide way)
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 hours ago
I’ve been driving for years and I’m still in Spain.
Tja@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Skill issue
Fribbtastic@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
At some point you need to actually leave the roundabout.
Janx@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Yeah, the police were very emphatic about that.