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giitsok
I'm Indigenous Canadian. We have a historical village/museum with artifacts dating back over 3,500 years ago from this area and town.
shadowbanned8
Similar people from Philly coming to California. To them 3 hours is 4 states. In Cali you haven't left the county yet.
TheRicM
I just read a comment from someone in UK talking about how SF is too far from Sacramento
meganly
In college I met a guy from Barcelona who couldn't comprehend that I grew up in a town of 1500 people, 2 hours from a shopping mall.
TopCommenter
To be fair, I grew up in the U.S. and I can barely register that as a true statement.
philstrum
My Scottish workmate thought she could bus from Townsville (far north east) to Perth (far south west) in a day... Try a few weeks, Lassy.
freckledkink
The City Of Townsville!
nolittleplans
The cliff that close to my house is like millions of years old
tehassassino
Ha 2 hours haha, i am from Belgium a 2 hour drive here is like forever for us.
XplodingUnicornGlitter
I drive an hour each way for work every day
Plurbie
I'm from Belgium too and drive an hour each to work every day. But it's only 40km one way XD Traffic is a bitch here
Sossage
I live in the town where there is the oldest remaining building in NZ which was built in 1822. My French husband thinks that's quaint.
Spleadal
I ran into some British tourists in SF who planned on renting a car driving to LA, spending the night in vegas and getting up ealr to (1/2)
Spleadal
Make the drive out to Miami. They seemed pretty delated when I told them that the drive would take atleast a 3 or 4 days non stop driving
Thisisnotacleverjoke
In a Alaska its flying time as a distance. "Oh my towns about 2 hours by prop, an hour twenty by jet."
happyfeet213
That’s interesting
DirectorBright
Its because the highways can be utter shit. You can fly from Anchorage to Fairbanks in like an hour or 2, driving is like 8.
DirectorBright
Correction, under an hour flight.
Audiopatch
Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity....two weeks from everywhere.
BrendaSnooze
You need to write a book called Two Weeks from Everywhere.
toolatetosaygoodbye
I'm a man of constant sorrow...
Invyggle
Thats the thing about Toronto
FatBastardVegetarian
Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
sproutimusad
4 is a lie, no one says Wessex, bath is nowhere near west Sussex, or Heathrow, or Cambridge, and you would never round the m25 in 2hrs
Aguroiar
Part of me wants to just think the person has jumbled the entire trip up. Wessex suggests it's an Anglo-Saxon trip which kinda makes sense?
Aguroiar
Could be a week in wessex in the kinda Hampshire area and it kinda works to go to Salisbury which would take 2 hrs on the m3 to get to heath
Aguroiar
But who knows
Techpriest93
Heck Atlanta's sprawl is like most of the state.
hiimmat
Dude I just drove 75 today OTP north side for the first time in over a year. Wtf happened? It’s crazy changed.
JamesonStreet
Road work. And a flaming bridge. Mustn’t forget the flaming bridge
Techpriest93
F
GadenKerensky
In Australia, if someone says something's 'Just down the road', it's either five minutes or five hours.
Wapusk
Told my English students in Japan, that people in Newfoundland are closer to people in England then their own countrymen in British Columbia
Wapusk
And there's only the little thing called the Atlantic ocean between St. John's Nfld. and Cornwall.
pandro
Guess that's why Brits say USA is "across the Pond."
IFindYourLackOfACreativeUsernameDisturbing
*australians quietly*
QuamvisSintSubAqua
*austrians quietly*
fedeColorTerror
As an Italian with an American boyfriend I can confirm. My house is older than his town and he consider 8 hours travel a short trip.
soylentgreenisthefuture
My hometown is about 2000 years old, founded by the Romans in England (AD 97) and my old school is more than 110 years older than the USA.
SwayzeS
Here's a cookie for each of you. Er... a biscuit.
IAmNotTheDevil
Hehe, the school I went to is over 1,000 years older than the US. My hometown is maybe 20 years older than yours.
Phormio
2333 years and counting here.Hometown,not school obviously.
TagaryenFangirl
The town I currently live in was settled 600AD, home town, no exact year known, but dates from the Anglo-Saxon period so around 1000AD
dashers
As a Batholian: hey, me too!
austinyc
So you are from Gloucester and went to Lund?
soylentgreenisthefuture
Right city, wrong school...
JiffyGee
Ummm...technically everywhere in the US is Indian burial ground. And I’ll see myself out.
ColbyWolf
I lived on a tiny island most of my life--30 miles at the longest. We thought we could land in Paris and be in N. Ireland a few hours later.
dmil103
I just got from a weekend trip where I drove 5 hours to Philly. Just for a concert.
Pdiddily
Metallica?
dmil103
Oh Lord no. We We're Promised Jetpacks. Scottish indie rock group.
Dammitcyril
I drive in Texas.
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
I live in one of the original english settlements in the US. It isnt that old at all.
toytiger
It blows my mind that someone 100 years old is over 2/5 the age of this country
pandro
St. Augustine is oldest continuous (started by Spain though, not England) and it's only 453. We are all just a bunch of newbies.
SerenePrincess013
Jamestown?
freckledkink
My ancestor brought all the settlers to Jamestown.
SerenePrincess013
My ancestor was on the first boat to land at Jamestown.
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
Dover, NH. It's the first settlement in NH that is still in existence. Portsmouth is technically a successor to an earlier one.
SerenePrincess013
My bad. I keep forgetting that they landed like 3-5 years before the Jamestown landing.
IWishAussieAnimalsWereMoreCuddly
I have friends in Austria who came to Oz and wanted to drive from Sydney, to Melbourne, across to Perth and back to Sydney. They reckoned 1/
IWishAussieAnimalsWereMoreCuddly
They could do it in less than a week. We had to sit them down and tell them that a return Melbourne-Perth trip was at LEAST six days, let 2/
IWishAussieAnimalsWereMoreCuddly
Alone the 14 hour (thus overnight) journey that is Sydney Melbourne lol 3/3
snipekill1997
Melbourne to Perth is only 36 hours of driving and Sydney to Melbourne is only 9.5. They were underestimating, you are overestimating.
Altanese
am I going insane or was almost this exact comment thread on another post?
WoefulWombat
You're gonna drive 36 hours straight?
snipekill1997
No but I've done 9+ hour days of driving before and that's 4 days not 6.
IWishAussieAnimalsWereMoreCuddly
36hrs divided by 3 is 12hrs. That's 6am to 6pm constant driving for three days. In a campervan. I haven't over estimated shit.
LadyBob
“I haven’t over estimated shit” lolol. Love it.
snipekill1997
36hrs/9 is 4 days and you said at least 6.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Once heard a US radio commercial for beer. Well "beer". They proudly announced that "we've been doing this since 1939!" Lol
IATTM
Just about everything here has an "est. 19.." or the like. Pretty common to advertise like that here. Very interesting.
sothisishowashitpostfeelslike
Meanwhile I have an apron from a beer company that says "since 1492" on it... and it's not even the oldest by far in that country.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Oldest brewery here is about 400 years older than that..
Cgyachilles
I know it’s not really the same but I can drive at 110 km/h on the same road for almost an hour and still not leave Calgary and it’s a city
Alisterfiend
Umm. No
Nidiahk
Hey that means your driving down deerfoot and we both know there's construction, an accident, or pointless delay nearly 24/7 on that thing 1
Nidiahk
But if in theory you could do 110 yeah you are right 2
theportablecat
Yeah, Canada is ridiculous. I was in Europe awhile ago and trying to tell people where you're from is pointless unless you're from the big 3
BigRottie
110 km/h... Like we know what that means.
PangolinBan
Plot twist: it's a ring road around the city.
Cgyachilles
Our ring road doesn’t actually go all the way around the city. The road im talking about goes north-south
leroy666
And not really a very big one.
yellowwood8888
I've seen Calgary from the air and it's mostly pointless urban sprawl. I don't want to get any closer frankly.
ffips
I went last summer for a wedding. Agreed. I just went Northwest until the mountains.
HiddenSanity
As someone who lived there a year.... that's reasonable.
RaigeJay
Woo fellow calgarian! Whereas driving 3 hours to Edmonton seems like nothing
FormulaFuzzball
That's about 69 freedom units per hour, for those of you in the land of the Free.
HoldingAccount
Yeah Myanmar, represent!
lochnezmunster
69... Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
HotelB
Nice
HeGotWeirdFetishes
Nice
frankthetankftw
You can double that in Dallas. If traffic will let you
NemoBarbarossa
Won't the police stop you if you traveled 220 km/h in the us?
ldtilley
Nah they only care about miles per hour
abhorance
That's because that fucking highway is confusing as shit, and you end up doing circles
goingoncegone
You’re supposed to go in circles! Loop 12 & 635 give you access to most of the city, then branch off those to get everywhere else.
SciNZ
Oxford University predates the Aztec civilisation.
dashers
I live in Bath. There are buildings here that were constructed ~2000 years ago.
MrSaturday
It has yet to beat Unseen university thou.
AudaciousCheeseburger
Oxford University predates a shit ton of stuff.
FirePrinceZuzu
It predates me, at least.
JamesDigby
No, pal, no one dates you.
FirePrinceZuzu
Yeah, we go on a predate and they nope the fuck out :(
HieronymousFlex
By hundreds of years, in fact
LZorro
Isn't it also true that the first students at Oxford didn't have to take calculus because it hadn't been invented by then?
iamverymuchalive
Yep
PieluverCaolan
A blessed time
suitablesuitors
Was it invented or discovered?
jaimerbritt127001
Damn philosopher.
snipekill1997
Newton and Leibniz did their work ~350 years ago. Oxford was founded 922 years ago.
pandro
for americans, this is why the "cap and gown" academic outfits look so weird - they date from medieval times.
iCantImager
Just drove 8 hours from Lincoln to Denver, same distance could take me from Berlin to Prague.
TheSongofRiver
From the Netherlands to Spain... 3 countries away.
lostlittletimeonthis
Anything that's 30 minutes away is already too far for me...
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Considering your username, why would you want to go East?
iCantImager
Nothing to see hier, move along.
HFlashman
I once had a car that slow. Seriously, 4 hours is more realistic. Source (apart from Google Maps): Am European.
TheLurkerWhoLurks
He could have been driving faster. We also use time as a measure of distance out here.
HFlashman
If it took you that long from Berlin to Prague, you‘d either be driving below the recommended speed or there‘d be a traffic jam all the way.
colominas
and back
TheMightyPIKE
One of the most boring drives in the country. I wish it was Europe. That is just the start of my drives home to MI
LurkerOfDarkness
It could also take you to a lot of other places still well inside Germany, it's all about directions and starting points.
SecretlyHitlerandStalinsLoveChild
That takes about half the time for the Germans.
rezexelon
They don't call it blitzkreig for nothing.
walkingtallmachinegunman
Bullshit man. The autobahn is no speed limit for like 4km then you hit roadwork with the most insane rerouting you've ever seen. I 1/
walkingtallmachinegunman
Spend half of my frequent 4 hour drives into GE going about 80kph
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Gotta keep it smooth.
abandandana
at least it is an efficient rerouting.
KirschPunkt
You would fuckin think so, yes.
AtsaMattaForYou
Deadpoolio7
AstartesLibrarius
LobsterBandito
Oh damn! That’s pretty clever.
ChloeRed
Must be a small tank...
Racealistic
We pump gas in litres not gallons. There i educated you :D
ChloeRed
As to tank size:
70 litres and ~1900km range.
ChloeRed
I fail to see how. Petrol and diesel pumps work in litres here too. I think you need more education.
ChloeRed
Also, what does the volume measure have to do with tank size? My 70 litre/15.3Imp/18.5US tank doesn't change size if I fill it in 1/
TinyHouseMan323
Hey if your in Denver want to grab a beer? Live here or just visiting?
LittleWolfiee
I live in Aurora and think we just need to plain have a CO imgurians meet up
TinyHouseMan323
I'd be down for a Meetup. Beer and board games?
randalldeflagg
Do we just sit around and look at imgur and chuckle while drinking beer?
XplodingUnicornGlitter
Englewood, right here
Freakayou
If you are in Winterpark to go Skiing, come visit me at The Lodge at Sunspot, I am the Sous Chef again for the winter.
LittleWolfiee
I can't ski cause genetic disease got me fucked up, but I'll seriously consider making a trip up just for this.
Freakayou
You can buy a Gondola ride to the top of the Zephyr for the view and lunch at Sunspot, or on the Mary Jane side at the LunchRock.
LobsterBandito
Here in the Midwest people use time as a distance. “That town is about 4 hours away.”
Vatafeo
With those crazy measurements you guys use who can blame you
Harambaegel
It's simple math
mikeatike
We do that in the city, tho at rush hour hours and miles are the same thing.
CrocodileDunphy
That’s the majority of my navigation. By time, not distance.
ICarpeYourDiems
In Texas and I only use time for distance. I make my plans by how long the drive is versus how much time having fun will be had.
Arachnophobicloser
I think it's people in North America. I frequently describe the distance between things as hours in Alberta.
vikk3
That's much better than the freedom units you tend to use :)
RedNumber9
Ahhh ha, I see what you did there.
theportablecat
Same in Canada, and Australia. Basically anywhere with a lot of geography, I think.
FlyingPenguin747
Literally everyone everywhere does this and I don't understand people who think they are special for doing it.
MartianPudding
I’m dutch and I do too because my town isn’t very well connected so travel time and distance can be very different things
noptic
That would be the express train from Munich to Berlin.
FirePrinceZuzu
I live in a small country and we do that as well.
redbikemaster
I do that too, but usually in days. "UT -> PA? Eh, 3-4 days."
Higure
Everyone does, about everything. "I live 30 minutes away from work", etc. It's how lightyears work too.
goodtemplar
Everyone with a car does this everywhere.
mycatodinisbetterthanyourcatodin
Same in Canada
DaytonFox
For sure went from Nebraska to Colorado ppl bitch about a 20 min drive .
redbikemaster
*laughs in trucker*
Spleadal
I commute from Cheyenne to Fort Collins and people can’t believe it. My commute in CA was less than 20 mile and it took over an hour.
6ft1DickC
Omaha to Vegas on a bike, 26 hours total with a 3 hour rest. Fucking awesome ride though
Cronos51101
Seems like it's more useful. Traveling 20 miles through the middle of nowhere is very different than 20 miles with a town in the way.
raknor88
Or 20 miles through a city.
BannedbyastupidMod
Alaska, we use time as well. Palmer? 1 hour, Fairbanks? 6 hours on a good day, 8-10 on a bad.
TheRicM
In California, time is measured by cannabis. "The trip is gonna take us about 4 bowls"
terrafiore
You mean 15 minutes down the road.
Calistrasza
My husband is swedish, I'm american. He tells me distance in km, I say "I have no idea how far that is, tell me how long it takes to drive".
HouseoftheRisingWaffle
Most Floridians I know use measure of time. 4 hours to Orlando, 2 to that lake I can't remember, 10+ to reach north border of the state.
Hyero
I'm in Central and it's 5 hours North and South, 30-40 minutes to Orlando.
LithiumGrease
where in FL is it a 10+hr drive to the florida line? Even from Key West its less than 9.
pandro
? how fast you driving, bud? how long from Key West to Miami?
LinksRudeAwakening
You’re somewhere down near Miami aint’cha?! Hey we’re practically neighbors!
HouseoftheRisingWaffle
LinksRudeAwakening
HeGotWeirdFetishes
That's pretty much everywhere in North America. Canadian here vouching for it.
ffips
6 hours Montreal to Toronto. 4.5 if the 401 is clear and the OPP is lenient
naytorin
Yup. I've driven an hour for dinner before.
gotamachinehead
I drive 45 minutes to work every day and no one even questions it.
andachairaswell
Australians do that too. Melbourne is about an hr and a half from me. Fucked if I know how many km's
helagos
I just drove from KC to Minneapolis a little over a month ago. Just a short 11hr drive (with breaks).
bananarama7788
A friend found in the wild! I never thought this day would happen. What do I say to mark this momentous occasion?! Auuugh.....apple!
helagos
I... I'm not sure who you are. DM me? lol
LobsterBandito
I’m so sorry you had to endure Iowa. Will you be alright?
helagos
I had to ask my boss for an extra day off to recuperate, but I recovered alright. Thank you for your concern.
Sirrepostalots
"a ways"
joebuck123
I never thought of that but its absolutely true. I don't know the distance from Flint to Chattanooga but its 12 hours away.
Audrelius
Portland to San Fransisco is 11 hours
pookieeatworld
Yup, my parents live 4 hours west of here, my work is 1/2 hour south of here, my sis lives 5 hours south, the casino is 35 minutes away...
CraftedLine
Casinos always seem to me 30mins away.
TheJDizzle
Which is also the distance from Topeka Ks to Chattanooga
WR0NGDUCKFACTS
Olympia to Portland is about 2 and half hours
ejether
Like... how many parsecs is that?
LobsterBandito
Roughly 1.3 * 10^-11
InsaneDeman
Well said.
AudaciousCheeseburger
Americans are an amazing group of people.
intashu
My dad lives two and a half hours away.. No clue what the miles are.. Just how long it takes me to get there! (mm resident ope!)
VitaminJay
Same in the SF Bay Area. "About an hour away" translates to 'about 8 miles with traffic'.
Spleadal
SF is cancer, I lived in sac and agreed to drop a friend off at SFO I left at 3ish got to the airport at 5 and got home just before 10.
DirkNurple
Same town. Same situation. I feel your pain.
Spleadal
Never again, I did it as a favor
GreaterDog
880 from Fremont to San Jose was so miserable that I'd go in an hour early to work. A 15 min drive at 7a turned into a 60 min drive at 7:30a
VitaminJay
When I had to go to SJ on the reg I'd just plan to have dinner down there and wait until about 8pm before getting back on the 880.
6ft1DickC
That ain't no lie, was in San Leandro and headed north to check out a beach, 20 miles took 3 hours
VitaminJay
Can absolutely confirm about San Leandro. Used to have a GF who lived there.
radicaleb
Having lived literally all over the country, that’s a pretty universally American thing to use time as a measure of distance
anonisacunt
Chiming in from the east coast, can confirm. “How far is Philly from here?” “Oh about two hours” “No, miles” “Miles? Shit, let me google it”
iwillmessagerandompeoplegifs
Work is 35 minutes away in the morning. An hour in the afternoon
Stralau
I think this is a universal thing.
ColonelColon
To be fair, the most important part about how far away something is is how long it will take you to get there
Hyero
I have trouble understanding Californian time distance. "It's about 3 hours away" means it could be 2 miles down the road if it's rush hour.
werewolffbarmitzvah
I specify. “It’s about an hour away if there’s no traffic.”
Vaintti
If I had to choose between miles and hours then I would use time aswell
BobHubert
Works for space too. A light minute is a distance based on how far light travels in a minute. So what we are saying is the Midwest is space.
TopCommenter
Well, it's got the "empty and boring" aspect covered.
Daarst
Better than using miles or km, imo. Since people really care how long it takes to get there.
huerv9531415
Yeah I think so. Even living in NJ where some communities are literally a mile big, we measure differences with time 1/
huerv9531415
"How long is it from Morristown to Newark?" "About 40 minutes" 2/2
gummyloaf
My job is 29 minutes away depending on traffic. I have literally never seen how far it is in miles.
lopeardgaloot
In Texas they measure distance in six packs or half racks
Kronzor
Ah yes Texas. Home of steers beers and queers.
sevrono
It's not just American, we do it in Canada too
ThisIsJustMySecondNSFWAccountMoveAlongOrPMmeIDontCare
I live in a suburb in the pac north west. I have no idea how far the next town over is but I know it's about 20 mins, 35 by bus.
arawhotdogsuspendedinatupperwareofvaseline
You On the peninsula?
Shartifartfast
Lol there ain't much for inter-town busses on the peninsula.
arawhotdogsuspendedinatupperwareofvaseline
There is if you don't mind waiting two hours for a bus and not having it run on sundays....
TuityFrooty
Hard to do in the SF Bay Area because San Jose to San Francisco is either 1 or 4 hours depending on the time of day.
LeSethX
Have a friend who tried to explain the number of towns as a "distance" between San Mateo and San Rafael
sevrono
In Canada we describe with time not considering traffic
HeavyMetalMonk
I'm in socal... People always qualify time of travel based on time of day, or how bad traffic could be.
HeavyMetalMonk
But miles are meaningless here.
GlowGreen
And then there's here in manhattan. Where 10 miles is almost always at least an hour.
TheClayKnight
I live in the Bay Area and usually hear people factor in traffic to the times. Commutes are usually consistent.
ff7cstrife
People I know Still do it. Just not for things hours away. Like great malls a 15 minutes drive, or gilroy is 30 minutes away.
SabineRaven
Drove from Seattle to Santa Barbara once. Went through Gilroy... was really confused why it suddenly smelled (amazingly) of Italian food.
Mkollbragg
Yup can confirm gilroys about 15 mins,Santa Cruz about 40, San Jose about a hour depends on the time of day, San Fran’s about mmm hour 40.
temporaryname1
Yo, do you live by downtown SJ? Those are like the exact distances of where I used to live haha
ff7cstrife
Used to hahah 95112. now in a different part of SJ
Hoenheign
Meanwhile in Australia "IVE BEEN DRIVING FOR 16 HOURS AND IM STILL IN THE BLOODY NORTHERN TERRITORY!"
ArthurPhillipDent
GPS: continue straight for 3 days, then turn right
jp189512
I live in BC Canada, if you drive north from Vancouver for 17 hours, you'll still be in BC
LokiShinigami
I used to have a truck like that. Changed the clutch, replaced the plugs and wires, new piston rings, ran good after that.
geauxaway
Works with Canada and the Northwest Territory
keksisthebetrayed
Gotta go to Bendigo ta get me cube!
OneLeggedDog
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE BIG NOTHING
MrPhukett
*laughs in West Australian*
MybolognahasafirstnameitsBAMBI
If you start in Miami, FL and drive 16 hours north, you *might* reach the Mason-Dixon line
pineapplesonimgur
Provided no ass fuck wrecks on 95 or a VA state trooper pulls you over or a MD state trooper pulls you over or DC fucks you
IcyPeter
Or Pensacola, Fl. Depends on which way you go
Reverse2057
My hometown is 30 mins NE of Sacramento, is how I always tell everyone where I'm from lol.
stinkingyeti
The english backpackers are fucking funny though, we used to see them at the local pub and they'd ask about walking somewhere that was 1/2
stinkingyeti
pretty much a 6 hour drive, i'm not sure how they didn't realise it before coming over here.
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stinkingyeti
Hahaha. Sounds about right.
Hoenheign
I’m a Darwin local and we see backpackers 10km out of the city thumbing for a ride to Alice Springs...
Hoenheign
...thinking it’s just 2 towns over thinking it was a short distance.
stinkingyeti
Ouch, i do remember the crestfallen looks i'd see though when we explained the distance so they could relate.
MegaDeuce
That's about the width of Texas.
Sm9yCg
After 16 hours you should have left the drive way.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
The UK fits 22 times into the state of Western Australia.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
...and there's 22 times more Poms in Perth then Australians...
MrPhukett
Tru dat
MrPhukett
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tooomanystevesgotbanned
My mistake, I must have been thinking of just England.
MrPhukett
Were you laying back at the time?
tooomanystevesgotbanned
In fact, when I check the maths now I get WA vs England = 19.4 times, WA vs UK = 10.4 times, UK vs England = 1.86 times.
MrPhukett
Hmmm. Highly likely that I was wrong, it’s a "fact" that’s stuck in my head since I came to Oz in 87, and I’ve never bothered checking it.
tooomanystevesgotbanned
Fair enough
tooomanystevesgotbanned
WA = 2,529,875 sq km; England = 130,281 sq km; UK = 242,495 sq km (or 243,610 sq km on some websites).
ChloeRed
They talked about it on QI once - following a satnav in Australia. It said to drive for 2 days, then turn right. And they missed the turning
LurkerOfDarkness
Recalculating...
RydWolf
Traffic ahead. Recalculating...
Lulabel73
Also with Australia there’s nothing in the middle. No cities, barely a town. So it’s pretty much the same view for all 16 hours.
awwwwwwww
Kansas.
Lulabel73
The pop of Kansas is 2.9 mil, pop of Northern Territory is 211,000 and half of that is in the city of Darwin. NT is 6x bigger than Kansas
MrPhukett
‘Ken oath mate.
DreadPierateRoberts
Mostly true in america
Lulabel73
Not at all. Look at this map, you can tell by the lights
CassanovaFrankenstain
STILL ON DAVO’S PROPERTY*
jonnyb23
Davo is a mad cunt
RanOutofWit
He'll king punch you if you try to pocket his lighter.
lordofthedice
I don't know aussie slang, but I wanna guess. Is that punching you in the balls?
RanOutofWit
Nah, a king punch is a cowards punch - the surprise unexpected punch to the jaw to knock someone out.
pizzaforyourmum
Mad as a cut snake
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DamBroox
he goes off like a frog in a sock
FatStarlord
~100 Irelands fit into Australia. That country terrifies me. Nothing is more than 4 hours away on our little island.
ProteusCore
My take away from this is that Ireland fits into New Zealand a bit over 3 times. Hmm. Good luck for the AB's vs Ireland game! :)
DenholmElliott
What are you on about? Mizen head to Malin head is over 8 hours
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Craggy Island?
valen00
heh I drove 7 hours to see the family last week, didn't leave the state. (well except for the ACT which doesn't count)
DeZaim
I drove 6 and a half hours to adopt a dog. Was just the other side of the border. Vic to NSW.
thebridgejumper
What would be the equivalent of being in the city area?
Skevoid
Darwin only has about 130,000 people, the shortest drive to a city with 1 million+ people is 3026km (1880 miles)
dogmatix
In the northern territory, the biggest city is Darwin. You can walk from one side to the other in no time (it's tiny).
jcarmona
Drove 12 hrs starting in Texas, was still in Texas. From the southern tip toward New Mexico.
L3nnyj
which is fair enough guess you'd be driving at 100kph, but you'd pass less ppl in the NT. The canning stock route is 1850km 1/
naaninn
That's so intimidating. If I drove 3 hours I already crossed the border to another state.
L3nnyj
2/ with fuck all people and FA animals. Fuel drops are required and need to be ordered a few months in advance to ensure you're not stranded
redbikemaster
"The sun has riz, the sun has set. And still I is, in Texas yet."
Feanor19
Popeyes chicken just added a drive through speaker in Texas for a restaurant in Louisiana. Just a cool 12 hours to get your chicken
Yossarian9
I drove 24 hrs starting in W.A. was still in W.A. still had another 14 hrs to go.
TheBloodyScot
Get off the roundabout.
YharnamsFinest
I mean texas is big, sure (268,581 sq miles) but West Australia is 976,790 sq miles.
acafilip1991
The numbers check out, 9 is bigger than 2
SoDamnDMB
Continental US is roughly 8 million sq miles and Australia is 7.7 million sq miles so they’re extremely similar size-wise
YharnamsFinest
I was comparing 2 states not continents.
UnknownVD
Houston to El Paso takes about 12 hours, also. Driving east to Tallahassee, Florida only takes about 10 hours.
Gyinagal
Beaumont to El Paso is about the same as El Paso to Los Angeles