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Originally Posted by Scott McD
Think the longest/furthest i'very ever had to drive is 3 hrs, maybe 3 hrs 30mins at most. Got a 6 possibly 7 hour drive on Wednesday and although it won't bother me i can't help but think if I was on a flight for 6hrs i could be getting some glorious sunshine rather than more of the same here simply visiting relatives in England lol.
I know some of you guys clock up some crazy mileage.
Everything we need here is very local. Even going into Glasgow centre is no more than a 20min drive usually...
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America is a big country and things are very spread out the further you go west the more spread out stuff is until you hit Cali.
Even though its spread out there is still lots of fully developed cities/towns in between.
Its really hard to compare Europe to any country in North America. It's like when people in Europe rag on Americans for not having passports..
In the US I can drive 3-4 days and still be in the US. In Europe you can drive 30 minutes and be in another country. In the US you could quite literally travel all your life and never see every town.
The closest thing to Europe in the US so far as travel goes would be New England or perhaps the NY to DC areas.. Lots of major cities or small states all packed together so you can go from one state/city to the next in a short amount of time.
Russia doesn't even compare to the US either, while it's big, it's not very well developed like the US.
I mean think of this.. The GDP of just California is almost 2 times that of Russia. We have states like Cali, Texas, NY have bigger GDPs on their own individually and are bigger than some world powers.
Oh and for the record back when I was truck driving I used to drive between 2.5-.3.5k miles a week. I was doing over 10k miles a month.