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[–] [email protected] 152 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (31 children)

Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.

I believe it's possible also in France .

Edit: don't want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The sun never sets on the ~~British~~ French empire!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Funny, I say the same thing about Texas.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (21 children)

Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.

edit: ya'll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don't even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Americans don't really care about how big AUS is, we just can't figure out how your wildlife is as deadly as our high school students

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The American mind cannot comprehend this!

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just take the train...

Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn't exist over there.....

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We have trains, they'll just take 2-3x as long.

And I'm not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that'll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.

So yeah, it's an option, just a really crappy one.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.

If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago

Best I can do is another McMansion.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.

But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.

We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 months ago (22 children)

The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (10 children)

My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked πŸ˜‚

A French person takes the high speed train lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Oh, hon hon.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (17 children)

Australia enters the chat,

Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.

1000025196

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (16 children)

All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it's fair to say that's the same as a province.

Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.

23 hr 6 min (2,190Β km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5

Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I don't want to sound rude here but the meme is about not leaving the same state a whole Italy drive seems unfair.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (5 children)

There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it's big.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:

As usual, California beats Texas

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is Arizona in California now?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (11 children)

European here (Brit). I could drive for 13 hours along the M60 and still be on the M60. No problem comprehending that.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (16 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Extra Points if you count all the confederate flags and truck nuts that you see along the way!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

i can drive for 13 hours and not leave my driveway (i dont know how to drive)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.

You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Western Australia has entered the chat

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (17 children)

You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:

Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.

EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Now someone reverse it for me, what's the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I've been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.

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