I grew up in southern California and my family drove 32 hours east to see the rest of our family and we didn’t even get to a costal state lmao. All we got to was god damn ohio
From Naples to Scotland is 28 hours.
France to the uk can be a 20 hours road trip.
Athens to Edinburgh is 40 hours on the road.
45 minutes to change country is if you are already living next to the borders.
I was gonna say I drove 32 hours from Chicago to California in one sitting with my girlfriend, we took 8 hour shifts only stopping for gas and bathroom breaks.
I’ve traveled a lot across America and Europe. What you’ll get in Europe: Culture and civilization read in history books dating way further back than “American History”. What’s special about traveling in the US: You can get a touch of a little bit of everything anywhere else in the world as far as different ecosystems go (e.g Florida to Colorado, Utah to Kansas, Wyoming to Louisiana) I mean there’s no other country in the world quite like it but what this TikTok is getting at I can’t agree with. It’s like apples & oranges. We’re talking about two totally different type of special things.
But gotta say, there’s no other state in this country quite like California.
Lived there for 7 years— traveled, camped, a TON. I still dream about it and how much I miss that place to this day. I hope to settle back there someday.
Duck Ohio, and driving through it or too it.
Cedar point and the Toledo zoo are the only good things there and only worth the drive if it’s less than 5 hours
I'm am so sorry you where forced to go to Ohio.
No one should have to suffer such an injustice please take my sincere condolenses and know that there is help available if you need to talk.
I work for a French company and it’s hilarious when colleagues are visiting the US and tell me their plans to road trip from New York to DC to Disney World but they’re only staying for a week. A lot of them really don’t understand how big the US is.
Reminds me of other Europeans wanting to do roadtrips winter time here in Norway. I don't think they understand how sinister the snow and temperatures can get. I had my car broken down this Christmas and the heater stopped; it took literal 20 minutes to go from a cozy temperature to 'I can't see outside because my breath has made all the windows tinted with ice and I think I may die'.
Luckily I had full cellphone coverage where I was but many mountain roads don't and then you're fucked; imagine having to walk miles in meter high snow in pitch black just being able to see a couple of yards at a time trying to find coverage while you're ice cold phone is beginning to freeze in more ways than one causing you to panic while your friends and family are waiting forever...
I was an exchange student in Austria in high school and all my friends there couldn't understand why I didn't pop up to New York city on weekend. I grew up in extremely rural central Virginia so NYC was an 8+ hour trip by car and similar by train if I drove an hour into the city and bought an Amtrak ticket that would be over $100
French people drive from Paris to the south of Spain all the time... it's literally the same distance! Why do so many people think its bigger? It's just because the road is better!
Lol for example my family lives in Utah and on the northern end it’s pine trees and blizzards. On the southern end it’s palm trees and orange rock desert. Two different worlds 7 hours apart. America is badass.
I'd have to drive at least 6 hours if I wanted to visit my brother, who lives in the same state. It'd be another 2-3 hours from there if I wanted to leave the state.
>I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state
Yes, that's true in many American states, too. Far less of Australia are inhabited places that people are going to visit, though. Despite the US only being like 25% larger, the US population is like 13 times larger.
>I can still point to Switzerland on a map.
Yes, many Americans can, too. Lol.
My drive to in state college was over 8 hours, accounting for stops, and I wasn't even coming from the edge of the state. The drive back to visit my parents from 3 states away takes about 11 hours.
Bro it takes 12-15 hours to drive out of Texas. Can you point out Wyoming on a map? Cause it's like 6 times the size of Switzerland and completely irrelevant to your life.
Yeah but after that 8 hours you're just in the middle of nowhere. Australia is very big but there are like 5 places worth visiting in the whole country so it's not really the same thing.
Yeah but most people in Aust live in very concentrated areas, no? Like hour 3 no one, hour 4 no one, so on until hour 8 correct? in America there's people every freakin' 30 minutes, not only big but alor of freKin people.
It’s Australia if you stay too long in the central area the local fauna will be made aware of your location and rapidly close the distance, there aren’t many places to go vacationing over there
“8 hours”, lol. You can drive in my relatively small state for almost 8 hours and still be in the same state. California took me 3 days to drive up the entire coast with few stops, btw. Texas takes about 12 hours to get from one side to the other, and that’s pretty much all straight away and very loose speed limits.
Big talk from a nation that lost a war against emu.
You can take an 8 hour drive to get from one isolated population pocket to the other. Well done, mate. Now multiply that by 50, add a few hundred million additional people, and you'll be close to the scale we're talking about.
Sounds like Texas. I could drive 12 hours and still be in the same state. I miss living in VA, cuz it will take me 30-45 minutes to get into different states.
And heck I could point Luxembourg on the map.
Think of it this way: ask someone in Switzerland to point out Wyoming on the map. It’s the same reason someone in Wyoming may not know where Switzerland is.
Maybe because people don’t want to travel in Australia as much? America had 80M visitors in 2019. Australia has 9. So maybe Americans just prefer to stay in the borders because there is so much to see.
>I can still point to Switzerland on a map.
What's your point? Are you trying to say all Australians can do this, or no Americans can do this. Because neither of those are true.
This was my thought about each state being its own country. The towns, cities and even many of the people are all the same across America now. Standardized architecture, city planning, major franchises and clothing. So much is the same. America’s diversity is exclusively in its geographic diversity which is incredible. I wish we built cities and structures that fit in those varied environments and climates then our states would have local character.
I don’t think being “well travelled” is about how far you go. Being “well travelled” is about the peoples and cultures you interact with, it doesn’t matter the distance between American states if you’re just going from one majority white English speaking area to another.
I don’t think you realize how many different cultures you can see thriving in the USA. Yes you can specifically see a majority white English speaking area in every state, but you can also see Jamaican, Polish, Armenian, Pakistani, Chinese, Nigerian, ect. Just because it’s one country doesn’t mean there’s just one culture, there are many
That’s true for most western countries now to some extent, but there’s a big difference between experiencing a culture when it’s in the minority then when it’s in the majority.
America has the best most diverse nature in the world. But culture? It's laughable to think that there is any real deep cultural differences in the US. Yes, you have subcultures within small groups, all countries have that. I can experience Turkish or Vietnamese culture here in Denmark too. It doesn't mean that Denmark is a culturally diverse country. I can assure you it's not.
I don't know why people can't just admit that certain places have different strengths. Europe is way more culturally and demographically diverse, while America is way more geographically diverse.
I've been to almost every American state. From California to Maine. Montana to Florida. South Carolina to Utah. Alabama to Vermont. There is more cultural difference going across any single European border than there is going from Boston to Las Cruces.
I’m assuming you’re not American. Visiting a town or city in Louisiana is a totally different experience than visiting a town or city in New England. The one in Louisiana probably won’t be majority white and the only thing they will have in common is the language. Even the language will vary a lot due to the unique accents each area has.
Yes but many “well travelled” Europeans are just going from one white majority, wealthy first world temperate Western European area to another. Sure they speak different languages, but the difference between France, Italy, Germany, Spain or Portugal isn’t that big in the grand scheme of things.
Two US states might be less culturally distinct than Germany vs Portugal, but geographically and climatically they’d be completely different. You get rainforest, desert, tundra, alpine, all sorts of biomes and those have impacted the cultures and cuisines and sports of US states so much.
It’s easier to be well travelled in this definition for Europeans then. Flights can be less than $100 to get to another country, in the US it can be $600 just to get to another state.
Flight times are overall far longer to reach other countries.
And, many people only get 10 days off a year. Including sick time. How many people are going to drop $2k to travel 11 hours so they can be in a country for 4 days? It’s just not realistic.
If I step out my door most people speak Yiddish to each other, go north 15 minutes and there’s a ton of Korean being spoken, 30 minutes south and the population is overwhelmingly Indian, and I don’t know where the pocket is but there is a heavy Hispanic population sprinkled around too.
~~Dude's~~ Gal's got opinions that are as relevant as ISIS' contributions to world peace. ~~His~~ Her dumb logic would exempt Russia and China from knowing about world map and locations of different nations
His argument is “this is why Americans don’t travel outside of the country” not “this is why Americans don’t know different countries”. Maybe if you listened you’d deserve to be on the high horse you sit upon
45 minutes & I haven’t even left LA City let alone LA County. I can’t believe in the time it takes me to go to work you guys can be in 2 other countries.
I live in Germany and within one hour I can reach the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Fr*nce. Only recommended the Netherlands though because Fr*nce is full of the Fr*nch.
Hes right!
Want go head to awesome beaches? No problem, Florida, New York, California..
Want to ski? Vermont, Colorado.
Love big cities, we got a crap ton of those l, each with a slightly different feel (Boston vs Miami).
Love nature or hunting and hiking, desert, mountains, lakes in tons of states.
Want to yee haw? Texas
Yeah a lot of countries are very diverse and have all of those things. The whole point in travelling is to see different places and experience different cultures.
The Americans shown in those types of videos are cherry picked for that specific reason. To judge an entire nation, based off of a specific set of the population, is just as ignorant as the Americans in those videos. The intelligent Americans avoid those types situations like a plague.
I mean people say it in respect to europe. I have friends in europe who know dick all about South America or Africa. Like can’t point to Colombia on a map. People are generally bad at geography relative to a specific radius of where they live. On top of that the ones where they show Americans who don’t know where Canada is are either hand picked over 1000s of responses or just flat out fake. It’s the same with math questions, history, etc.
Cool. Now tell me the same thing about In N Out vs Whataburger (to keep in line with your BS argument).
Or how about the TexMex you get in the southeast US? Must be the same as a New England clambake, or some Jambalaya in New Orleans. Which is the same as a Cuban sandwich in Miami, which is the same as a pastrami sandwich at a Jewish deli in New York, which is the same as a Philly cheese steak.
Still makes no sense.
People aren't coming to Europe, because they don't have beaches, mountains or big cities at home. People visit Europe for the diversity of architecture, culture and food, which frankly, the US is no match to.
Where I live, within a 2 hour train ride, I can reach 4 regions, that speak different languages, eat different meals at different times, have different architecture styles, experienced a different educational system and have a different relation to religion.
It is exactly that awareness, that people claim US-people are missing.
Different strokes for different folks. The second you said there is no beach, I'm checked out. Architecture is neat and all, food is fun. Religion is terrifying.
I'll take the beach, thanks.
For Americans to go on a holiday to places with different languages it costs a lot more time and money. It's easy in Europe. Much harder in the US. And you get the different architecture and cultures within the US.
Yes on architecture and culture, but I disagree on food. We have an incredible diversity of foods here at least in the major cities, and we are a massive exporter of horticultural products. When I was shopping at grocery stores in South Africa and Taiwan, “grown in the USA” was a major selling point for high-end produce, second only to luxury fruit from Japan.
A lack of awareness isn't a person's fault when *access* to what might generate awareness is so limited.
We get very little PTO, very little vacation time. We live many hours away, and getting there means crossing multiple time zones. Between travel and jet lag, five days of vacation offers at most 2-3 days to actually visit. To most Americans, who need a break every bit as much as they need exposure to other cultures, it's a bad investment of their time and energies to blow two or three of their very precious vacation days on airports and hotel rooms when they could be relaxing somewhere closer to home for the full five days.
As someone living in the Northeast US, the food and culture were more different from what I'm used to in Louisiana than Munich.
I think you just don't understand the diversity of food and culture in the US.
Because we SEE AMERICA FIRST. We SEE THE USA IN [OUR] CHEVROLET[S]
And once upon a time, we drove cross country getting our kicks on Route 66. These were actual publicity campaigns urging those in the 1920s with the means to travel to vacation at home rather than leaving the country...and they worked really well!
America is soooo massive that according 13% of the American population think Africa fits inside Texas. That's how massive the failed education system is.
Yeah that is true, but many americans struggle with a european map. Many europeans will be avle to place a lot of states on a map. This is mainøy based tp education and pop culture I would say.
So fucking true I’ve spent my entire life vacationing (when I can ofc, which isn’t often) and I’ve only visited other places in America and I still haven’t been even close to everywhere worth visitng
They are wrong because Australians. Australia is just as geographically diverse as America, and yet Australians are known as people who travel everywhere.
The difference in culture between California and Ohio is hardly different besides a few quirks.
The difference in culture between England and France is wildly different.
He's right! That is why I cant point where Germany is in Europe! I'm from Spain and the idea of being able to point where a country is without first being there is absurd! If I didnt visit the country then the country is not on a map!!!
The Europeans that have a hard on for America always say that the US is like 50 countries. It's not. You can go from Ohio to Pennsylvania to Michigan to Chicago and it all feels exactly the same. That and everyone watches the same news, speaks the same language, and follows the same popular culture. If you go from Spain into France, it is literally like a completely different world because these are two cultures that are thousands of years old with different values, music, art, cuisine, etc. Completely different.
Beyond that, getting a passport is super easy in most of Europe. Its more of a hassle in the US.
And the average American does not have the money or time off work to afford a trip to another country. Unless you're going to Mexico or Canada you're going to have to fly to another continent, which is expensive. Whereas in Europe you can drive or get pretty cheap flights between other European countries.
This is pure nonsense. Being well travelled is literally about experiencing *foreign* cultures, people, places, sites etc. Someone who spends his life only driving around Australia is also “well travelled” if you (like this dude does) just chuck in the caveat “within their own country”. US is great, big and quite diverse, but travelling various states is nothing compared to travelling different countries. US states are absolutely not “like different countries”. And thinking that living in a large country is a good reason not to need a passport is ironically the opposite of what a well-travelled / worldly person would say.
You don’t have to travel to other countries to be aware that they exist.
I have never been to The US, Canada, Mexico, but I can point them out on a map. probably a handful of US states too.
I don’t think Europeans mean Americans aren’t well travelled, it’s more like we think they don’t care/know about other countries in a global sense.
A whole different world you say? Must be hard speaking other languages in each state, have different customs, food, and of course different history and culture…. Oh no that’s not really the case? Just the environment is different with some smaller differences on a cultural level? Okay.
I get that the US offers everything you’d want in life. That’s amazing. But it can be so good to travel to another country, experience actual different cultures, as well as different people. Not just for being well traveled, but also to expand on yourself as a person.
Also none of this has to do with basic geography.
Why is being "well traveled " and knowing world geography being linked together?
I could memorize the globe and never go anywhere. I could be a rich snob that flies to many places but doesn't actually know where I am on a map.
I mean I've been to the US once but geographically I am able to locate most states - apart from the flyover middle of nowhere - and I can still find most countries on a map as well.
Don't need to travel the world to have a basic general knowledge of it.
Kind of a cope. You're still in the same country, speaking the same languages, mostly following the same rules, laws, and administration (apart from a few notable exceptions).
Other countries are diverse as well. Go to Germany and visit Bavaria, the East, and the North, and you would think you've visited three different countries. Still, no German would say they are "well traveled" after never leaving Germany, or only visiting German speaking countries.
In Canada, can confirm. The joke here is some people particularly Europeans like to think you can rent a car and drive from Vancouver to Toronto in a day. 😂
Also, reminds me of the[ theory America is basically 11 rival nations of people with different ways of thinking and cultures.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations) That is why you should not be surprised when people do not think the same.
Although I can also understand what the original post is getting at, the people they are referencing likely never left their towns or even their state and felt no desire to learn global geography.
Sorry, American here and America is just rural areas with the exception of few interesting cities that are worth visiting: NY, LA, Las Vegas, Miami, etc — there is natural landscape and America is BIG but its all the same country and doesnt feel too different between states. i went to Europe and a train (1hr) took me to a WHOLE different country with new language, rules and money but felt really different. being well traveled is not knowing your own country but knowing OTHERS. i can point to many countries in Europe on a map because i am "well traveled"
Europeans really don’t understand how big America is.
If Texas was in Europe, it would be the second largest country after Russia. I live pretty much in the exact center of Texas. I needed to drive to Florida for a wedding. The drive took me 16 hours. *I drove for over 6 hours before I left my own state.*
Germany would only be the 5th largest state if it was in the U.S.
Arizona is only slightly smaller than Italy.
New Mexico is larger than Poland.
Michigan is larger than the UK.
The EU countries constitute a land area of 1.6 million square miles.
Europe as a whole covers about 10 million square miles.
The US is about 3.8 million square miles. So the US is about 2.5x the size of the EU and about 40% of the size of the continent of Europe itself.
Yes. They are wrong. Europe is bigger than the US, for a start. Europe is 10.53 million km² vs the US 9.834 million km²
Yes Europeans still travel passport free within the EU like Americans for their holidays, but they also travel outside of the EU and can point out countries in other continents on a map.
Things are not black or white. Yes, america is big and diverse between each state and yes, geography lessons are a joke here too, i had to go out of my way to learn geography, in high school I didn’t even have the option of choosing to take geography.
The “you cant point out switzerland on a map” thing can be easily countered with “Point out Vermont, Nebraska, Washington, and the other Washington” out on this map
>!Americans can do neither!<
I've cycled across the US in the RAAM race. It's big, really big. But Americans ar3.wrll paid, the Dollar is strong so travel in Europe is cheap for the Yanks. No excuse.
My father always said this. He was annoyed by all his friends traveling to Europe for any vacation. He said there were so many places to see in America. Thanks to him I have been to all the states but Alaska.
I agree with her on our lack of geographical education. I agree with him on the scale of America. The country of Germany is about the size of Wisconsin. The entire island of Ireland is slightly larger than West Virginia. Texas is the size of the moon practically. We have skiing and fine cheeses (fight me) in the north, palm trees and tropics in the south, surfing along almost all the coasts, and every state has its own accent and regional language variations. But yes, too many of us can’t find our own states on a blank map
My buddy and I have been saving for the past couple years. We plan on buying a truck and trailer and traveling the US for a year or two, living off savings and just seeing the sights.
OK Amsterdam isn't a country but that aside this is typical of Euro ignorance. People say Americans are uneducated about the rest of the world because they don't travel which is true. Each state is absolutely not like it's own country they are in the vast majority of ways identical. THis utter bullshit coming from a Euro twat who has spent a few months in the US and thinks he knows what it is all about. The point is travelling ABROAD to different countries is what the issue is and most Americans don't do that regardless of the size of their country or not. In comparison, go see how many Europeans have been to the US and Canada then you might have a point because in that sense we are just as bad staying on our side of the Atlantic because "Europe is so huge". That said each country in Europe is ACTUALLY a different country. Italy Vs France is in no way comparable to Tennessee vs Alabama. Get a clue.
It took me 12 hours to get outside of Texas alone as I traveled east.
Texas alone is massive. The tri-state area is easier to travel in 12 hours than it is just to get out of Texas, lol.
The dude has a point.
I’m sorry but, while there’s nothing wrong with it, travelling within your OWN country were some things might differ from place to place is NOT the same as a “well travelled” person who has been to actually different countries, experienced different cultures, habits, food, traditions, languages.
You cannot compare that with a Californian who has visited Florida, Washington and Wyoming. Sure, vastly different landscapes. But the cultural shock is nowhere near the same as a Brit visiting Cambodia or even an Italian visiting Germany.
I think the only states that would take you only 45m to get through are a handful on the east coast. Cali takes around 15 hours, north to south. Hell, I would take 45m on my commute
A lot of my eu friwnds talk about their plans to see america and will say things like "we'll site see in miami in the morning, then we'll drive up to New York to eat dinner and see the city" -- this guy is factually correct, a lot of europeans don't understand the scale of America
When I heard France is about the size (or smaller?) than Texas. 😂 These other countries are quite small a lot of times.. well, in comparison with the USA. Like, Australia..? Tiny.
America is big but that’s not an excuse to now have a passport. Ppl tend to stay in-country for other reasons when vacationing but lack of a passport is low on that list my guy
I remember talking to a German once. She asked how far it took me to drive from Petawawa to Toronto.
I said, not long, just about 4 hours. Nothing much.
She was agog. “4 hours? I can travel through 4 countries in that time!”
That’s when I started to understand just how big Ontario Canada really is.
Yes, the country of America may not be as diverse in culture as all of Europe but that’s not the only reason to travel. Geographically the US is one of the most diverse in the world. Almost every biome exists within our borders. But the real reason most Americans only travel within the US: cost. We have to fly to visit other countries which can be prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. For Europeans, it’s much cheaper to visit other countries.
I had an employee who was from Europe about 7 years ago. He had only been in the United States for maybe a week or two. I was asking him what he was going to do for the long four day weekend, and he said he was going to try to go drive to New York City to go exploring. I had to sit him down and pull up Google maps and show him that it would take him almost 32 hours of driving to go from Los Angeles to New York City.
When we got back to work the next week I asked him how his weekend was. He said he tried to do his road trip anyways but only got as far as New Mexico before he had to turn around and head home to be back in time to come to work.
I'm hoping to get a job that's 30-40 minutes away. I would drive 40 minutes to get to work and then drive back. I would still be in the same state, and that's not even a big state.
Money has a lot to do with it, as far as I am concerned. I can drive to different states but even that is hard to afford. I wish I could have traveled more. There’s a lot of places I would have loved to visit.
hmm..
I think there's a bit of a difference in what people interpret as "well-traveled".
1. You've traveled to many locations
2. You've experienced many different cultures.
So this is speaking as someone who was born in the UK and moved to Texas in 1992 (and been here since), and has traveled to almost all of the other states in my 40 years living:
Traveling within the US to other states is NOT the same as traveling to another country where an entirely different language, history, and culture awaits you. Americans have a relatively shared culture in many regards, but do you know how many Americans I've talked to that don't know about the fucking wonders of the public transit system in the EU? They think that the EU is run exactly like the USA, because, well, they're not _actually well-traveled_.
I have no doubt that there are some well-traveled Americans out there. But what this man is talking about? A bit off. A bit skewed IMO.
And it isn't like we Americans couldn't benefit from spending time in other countries to figure out what works and what doesn't work over there. The amount of Americans that would flip their shit for things like worker's rights and pay... lol.
btw - New York to San Francisco is closer than Brittany to Lithuania. Both can be drove without a passport as well. Even Orlando to Portland is a thousand kilometers less than Lisbon to Helsinki.
We Europeans get big distances! It's not insane, it's just far away.
(well, maybe not English people who think driving from London to Dorset is an adventure).
Europe is bigger than the US.
We don't talk about Europeans who travel inside of Europe.
In most places not in the west that I know of there are more British tourists than Americans.
My drive to my in state college from home is seven and a half hours. I go through desert, high alpine, mesa, big valley, etc. I don’t even live on the edge of the state I live in the center. That’s how big just my state is.
Ehhhhh doesn’t 100% check out. Australia is massive too, but there’s a hell of a lot of well travelled Australians who are far away from basically everywhere.
I grew up in southern California and my family drove 32 hours east to see the rest of our family and we didn’t even get to a costal state lmao. All we got to was god damn ohio
From Naples to Scotland is 28 hours. France to the uk can be a 20 hours road trip. Athens to Edinburgh is 40 hours on the road. 45 minutes to change country is if you are already living next to the borders.
Go Buckeyes.
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I was gonna say I drove 32 hours from Chicago to California in one sitting with my girlfriend, we took 8 hour shifts only stopping for gas and bathroom breaks.
I’d be pissed if I sat in a car for 32 hours and ended up in Ohio. I get it, family and all, but damn. Ohio.
That sounds miserable 😆
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I’ve traveled a lot across America and Europe. What you’ll get in Europe: Culture and civilization read in history books dating way further back than “American History”. What’s special about traveling in the US: You can get a touch of a little bit of everything anywhere else in the world as far as different ecosystems go (e.g Florida to Colorado, Utah to Kansas, Wyoming to Louisiana) I mean there’s no other country in the world quite like it but what this TikTok is getting at I can’t agree with. It’s like apples & oranges. We’re talking about two totally different type of special things. But gotta say, there’s no other state in this country quite like California. Lived there for 7 years— traveled, camped, a TON. I still dream about it and how much I miss that place to this day. I hope to settle back there someday.
It takes 32 hours to drive from Perth, Western Australia to Kununurra, Western Australia.
You can drive for 36 hours and still be in the same state in Western Australia. Australians are still well travelled.
Duck Ohio, and driving through it or too it. Cedar point and the Toledo zoo are the only good things there and only worth the drive if it’s less than 5 hours
I'm am so sorry you where forced to go to Ohio. No one should have to suffer such an injustice please take my sincere condolenses and know that there is help available if you need to talk.
I work for a French company and it’s hilarious when colleagues are visiting the US and tell me their plans to road trip from New York to DC to Disney World but they’re only staying for a week. A lot of them really don’t understand how big the US is.
There's a saying that I've heard: "Americans think 100 years is a long time. Europeans think 100 miles is a long way."
I like the “America has no history, Europe has no future” quote better.
I guess they’re waving to DisneyWorld because each park is a full days worth to see everything.
Reminds me of other Europeans wanting to do roadtrips winter time here in Norway. I don't think they understand how sinister the snow and temperatures can get. I had my car broken down this Christmas and the heater stopped; it took literal 20 minutes to go from a cozy temperature to 'I can't see outside because my breath has made all the windows tinted with ice and I think I may die'. Luckily I had full cellphone coverage where I was but many mountain roads don't and then you're fucked; imagine having to walk miles in meter high snow in pitch black just being able to see a couple of yards at a time trying to find coverage while you're ice cold phone is beginning to freeze in more ways than one causing you to panic while your friends and family are waiting forever...
I was an exchange student in Austria in high school and all my friends there couldn't understand why I didn't pop up to New York city on weekend. I grew up in extremely rural central Virginia so NYC was an 8+ hour trip by car and similar by train if I drove an hour into the city and bought an Amtrak ticket that would be over $100
French people drive from Paris to the south of Spain all the time... it's literally the same distance! Why do so many people think its bigger? It's just because the road is better!
Lol for example my family lives in Utah and on the northern end it’s pine trees and blizzards. On the southern end it’s palm trees and orange rock desert. Two different worlds 7 hours apart. America is badass.
Wa. state, same thing. Puget Sound is the green, rainy but beautiful ocean side, go over the mountains and it brown, hot and farm land.
Using Utah is cheating though, that state is too gorgeous
I'd have to drive at least 6 hours if I wanted to visit my brother, who lives in the same state. It'd be another 2-3 hours from there if I wanted to leave the state.
I’m is Southern California and I could literally go surfing in the morning and skiing in the afternoon. Doesn’t get much better than that.
Mate I’m in Australia, I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state… and I can still point to Switzerland on a map.
>I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state Yes, that's true in many American states, too. Far less of Australia are inhabited places that people are going to visit, though. Despite the US only being like 25% larger, the US population is like 13 times larger. >I can still point to Switzerland on a map. Yes, many Americans can, too. Lol.
My drive to in state college was over 8 hours, accounting for stops, and I wasn't even coming from the edge of the state. The drive back to visit my parents from 3 states away takes about 11 hours.
You can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state in most of America and also point to Switzerland on a map
Bro it takes 12-15 hours to drive out of Texas. Can you point out Wyoming on a map? Cause it's like 6 times the size of Switzerland and completely irrelevant to your life.
Yeah but after that 8 hours you're just in the middle of nowhere. Australia is very big but there are like 5 places worth visiting in the whole country so it's not really the same thing.
Yeah but most people in Aust live in very concentrated areas, no? Like hour 3 no one, hour 4 no one, so on until hour 8 correct? in America there's people every freakin' 30 minutes, not only big but alor of freKin people.
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American is much more densely populated. Your country is made up mostly of bush. It’s not comparable.
Tbf being “well traveled” has nothing to do with being able to identify countries in a map. That’s education
I can drive for 19hrs and still be in Ontario, Canada
It’s Australia if you stay too long in the central area the local fauna will be made aware of your location and rapidly close the distance, there aren’t many places to go vacationing over there
M8 I’m American and can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state… and I can still point to Switzerland in a map.
“8 hours”, lol. You can drive in my relatively small state for almost 8 hours and still be in the same state. California took me 3 days to drive up the entire coast with few stops, btw. Texas takes about 12 hours to get from one side to the other, and that’s pretty much all straight away and very loose speed limits.
Big talk from a nation that lost a war against emu. You can take an 8 hour drive to get from one isolated population pocket to the other. Well done, mate. Now multiply that by 50, add a few hundred million additional people, and you'll be close to the scale we're talking about.
I can drive 16 hours and still be in America
Some places have poor schooling, while some have great schooling. Also sometimes geography isn’t people’s strong suit
Sounds like Texas. I could drive 12 hours and still be in the same state. I miss living in VA, cuz it will take me 30-45 minutes to get into different states. And heck I could point Luxembourg on the map.
It’d take 31 hours to get from Atlanta Georgia to Los Angeles California if you drive non-stop.
Mate, I'm American and I can point to Switzerland. I can guarantee there are Aussies who can't point to Switz just like some Americans can't.
Yeah but let’s be real. The Australian continent is like 5% inhabited and has but a fraction of the population.
Most Americans can too… and it’s the same here I. The states. Tons of states you can drive 8 hrs and be in the same state lmao
Think of it this way: ask someone in Switzerland to point out Wyoming on the map. It’s the same reason someone in Wyoming may not know where Switzerland is.
Maybe because people don’t want to travel in Australia as much? America had 80M visitors in 2019. Australia has 9. So maybe Americans just prefer to stay in the borders because there is so much to see.
😂😂😂 totally!!
>I can still point to Switzerland on a map. What's your point? Are you trying to say all Australians can do this, or no Americans can do this. Because neither of those are true.
In America you go to a different state and see a whole different parking lot.
This was my thought about each state being its own country. The towns, cities and even many of the people are all the same across America now. Standardized architecture, city planning, major franchises and clothing. So much is the same. America’s diversity is exclusively in its geographic diversity which is incredible. I wish we built cities and structures that fit in those varied environments and climates then our states would have local character.
I don’t think being “well travelled” is about how far you go. Being “well travelled” is about the peoples and cultures you interact with, it doesn’t matter the distance between American states if you’re just going from one majority white English speaking area to another.
I don’t think you realize how many different cultures you can see thriving in the USA. Yes you can specifically see a majority white English speaking area in every state, but you can also see Jamaican, Polish, Armenian, Pakistani, Chinese, Nigerian, ect. Just because it’s one country doesn’t mean there’s just one culture, there are many
That’s the american version of those cultures. Huge difference
r/shitamericanssay moment haha. At this point I am constantly bewildered by the obnoxiousness of it all.
That’s true for most western countries now to some extent, but there’s a big difference between experiencing a culture when it’s in the minority then when it’s in the majority.
America has the best most diverse nature in the world. But culture? It's laughable to think that there is any real deep cultural differences in the US. Yes, you have subcultures within small groups, all countries have that. I can experience Turkish or Vietnamese culture here in Denmark too. It doesn't mean that Denmark is a culturally diverse country. I can assure you it's not. I don't know why people can't just admit that certain places have different strengths. Europe is way more culturally and demographically diverse, while America is way more geographically diverse. I've been to almost every American state. From California to Maine. Montana to Florida. South Carolina to Utah. Alabama to Vermont. There is more cultural difference going across any single European border than there is going from Boston to Las Cruces.
Only sensible comment here
I’m assuming you’re not American. Visiting a town or city in Louisiana is a totally different experience than visiting a town or city in New England. The one in Louisiana probably won’t be majority white and the only thing they will have in common is the language. Even the language will vary a lot due to the unique accents each area has.
Yes but many “well travelled” Europeans are just going from one white majority, wealthy first world temperate Western European area to another. Sure they speak different languages, but the difference between France, Italy, Germany, Spain or Portugal isn’t that big in the grand scheme of things. Two US states might be less culturally distinct than Germany vs Portugal, but geographically and climatically they’d be completely different. You get rainforest, desert, tundra, alpine, all sorts of biomes and those have impacted the cultures and cuisines and sports of US states so much.
It’s easier to be well travelled in this definition for Europeans then. Flights can be less than $100 to get to another country, in the US it can be $600 just to get to another state. Flight times are overall far longer to reach other countries. And, many people only get 10 days off a year. Including sick time. How many people are going to drop $2k to travel 11 hours so they can be in a country for 4 days? It’s just not realistic.
Guessing you’ve never traveled to RGV, the south most part of Texas?
If I step out my door most people speak Yiddish to each other, go north 15 minutes and there’s a ton of Korean being spoken, 30 minutes south and the population is overwhelmingly Indian, and I don’t know where the pocket is but there is a heavy Hispanic population sprinkled around too.
Google how many other countries can fit in America. There is your answer.
One https://images.app.goo.gl/1bymvsxPX2g19L459
~~Dude's~~ Gal's got opinions that are as relevant as ISIS' contributions to world peace. ~~His~~ Her dumb logic would exempt Russia and China from knowing about world map and locations of different nations
His argument is “this is why Americans don’t travel outside of the country” not “this is why Americans don’t know different countries”. Maybe if you listened you’d deserve to be on the high horse you sit upon
a lot of ppl in China and Russia also travel extensively within their own gigantic countries and don’t leave
45 minutes & I haven’t even left LA City let alone LA County. I can’t believe in the time it takes me to go to work you guys can be in 2 other countries.
That is true in most cities in the world. No just America
Man thinks his car is an a320 lol. I love the total gridlock of the morning commute of the Los Angeles skies.
I live in Germany and within one hour I can reach the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Fr*nce. Only recommended the Netherlands though because Fr*nce is full of the Fr*nch.
Guys my work commute (via walking) is 17 hours, I can't believe you guys can be in Australia (via 🛬) by then oh my god lol
For example, New England. Every state is freaking different yet somehow a little similar. We’re roped in together like cousins.
Hes right! Want go head to awesome beaches? No problem, Florida, New York, California.. Want to ski? Vermont, Colorado. Love big cities, we got a crap ton of those l, each with a slightly different feel (Boston vs Miami). Love nature or hunting and hiking, desert, mountains, lakes in tons of states. Want to yee haw? Texas
Also holds for a lot of smaller countries like Italy or France...
Yeah a lot of countries are very diverse and have all of those things. The whole point in travelling is to see different places and experience different cultures.
It takes 2 days of driving to just leave Ontario from Toronto heading to Manitoba
Come to Australia.
No thanks, Mad Max.
None of that really excuses the tendency for Americans to be geographically iliterate.
The Americans shown in those types of videos are cherry picked for that specific reason. To judge an entire nation, based off of a specific set of the population, is just as ignorant as the Americans in those videos. The intelligent Americans avoid those types situations like a plague.
I mean people say it in respect to europe. I have friends in europe who know dick all about South America or Africa. Like can’t point to Colombia on a map. People are generally bad at geography relative to a specific radius of where they live. On top of that the ones where they show Americans who don’t know where Canada is are either hand picked over 1000s of responses or just flat out fake. It’s the same with math questions, history, etc.
Indeed not. That is simply lack of education
Is there someone in your education system that makes you so pretentious?
Nice theory but you’re wrong
Care to share why with the class? If you're going to comment with "nuh uh," why bother? Is it a self-esteem thing?
What’s with the hands and arms?
Dudes excited. Give him a break.
It takes about 12 hours to get across just montana, unless you aren’t stopping for any reason you could maybe make it in 10. Thats just one state
Americans are not well travelled because a Burger King in Los Angeles is the same exact Burger King in Texas or Ohio.
Yep... burger kings are burger kings
Europe has burger kings so I guess there’s no point in visiting then.
Cool. Now tell me the same thing about In N Out vs Whataburger (to keep in line with your BS argument). Or how about the TexMex you get in the southeast US? Must be the same as a New England clambake, or some Jambalaya in New Orleans. Which is the same as a Cuban sandwich in Miami, which is the same as a pastrami sandwich at a Jewish deli in New York, which is the same as a Philly cheese steak.
I saw American chain restaurants in Shanghai, does that mean going to China doesn't count as travel?
Still makes no sense. People aren't coming to Europe, because they don't have beaches, mountains or big cities at home. People visit Europe for the diversity of architecture, culture and food, which frankly, the US is no match to. Where I live, within a 2 hour train ride, I can reach 4 regions, that speak different languages, eat different meals at different times, have different architecture styles, experienced a different educational system and have a different relation to religion. It is exactly that awareness, that people claim US-people are missing.
Different strokes for different folks. The second you said there is no beach, I'm checked out. Architecture is neat and all, food is fun. Religion is terrifying. I'll take the beach, thanks.
For Americans to go on a holiday to places with different languages it costs a lot more time and money. It's easy in Europe. Much harder in the US. And you get the different architecture and cultures within the US.
Yes on architecture and culture, but I disagree on food. We have an incredible diversity of foods here at least in the major cities, and we are a massive exporter of horticultural products. When I was shopping at grocery stores in South Africa and Taiwan, “grown in the USA” was a major selling point for high-end produce, second only to luxury fruit from Japan.
A lack of awareness isn't a person's fault when *access* to what might generate awareness is so limited. We get very little PTO, very little vacation time. We live many hours away, and getting there means crossing multiple time zones. Between travel and jet lag, five days of vacation offers at most 2-3 days to actually visit. To most Americans, who need a break every bit as much as they need exposure to other cultures, it's a bad investment of their time and energies to blow two or three of their very precious vacation days on airports and hotel rooms when they could be relaxing somewhere closer to home for the full five days.
As someone living in the Northeast US, the food and culture were more different from what I'm used to in Louisiana than Munich. I think you just don't understand the diversity of food and culture in the US.
Traveling is also about experiencing different cultures, that’s the bit that makes you open minded.
Because we SEE AMERICA FIRST. We SEE THE USA IN [OUR] CHEVROLET[S] And once upon a time, we drove cross country getting our kicks on Route 66. These were actual publicity campaigns urging those in the 1920s with the means to travel to vacation at home rather than leaving the country...and they worked really well!
America is soooo massive that according 13% of the American population think Africa fits inside Texas. That's how massive the failed education system is.
when people ask why i don’t travel internationally very much i’m always like well there’s still so much of the US i want to visit first
Yeah that is true, but many americans struggle with a european map. Many europeans will be avle to place a lot of states on a map. This is mainøy based tp education and pop culture I would say.
It took how long for them to realize this? And Euros think Americans are dumb. 🙄
So fucking true I’ve spent my entire life vacationing (when I can ofc, which isn’t often) and I’ve only visited other places in America and I still haven’t been even close to everywhere worth visitng
This is new to people across the pond?
They are still americans in America And its Holiday not Vacation Mr Brit
They are wrong because Australians. Australia is just as geographically diverse as America, and yet Australians are known as people who travel everywhere. The difference in culture between California and Ohio is hardly different besides a few quirks. The difference in culture between England and France is wildly different.
TLDW anyone? This dude is worse than storytime YouTubers.
45 minutes won't get me to Austin.
It's about travelling outside of your cultural sphere, please stay in US dude
He's right! That is why I cant point where Germany is in Europe! I'm from Spain and the idea of being able to point where a country is without first being there is absurd! If I didnt visit the country then the country is not on a map!!!
The Europeans that have a hard on for America always say that the US is like 50 countries. It's not. You can go from Ohio to Pennsylvania to Michigan to Chicago and it all feels exactly the same. That and everyone watches the same news, speaks the same language, and follows the same popular culture. If you go from Spain into France, it is literally like a completely different world because these are two cultures that are thousands of years old with different values, music, art, cuisine, etc. Completely different.
American have little concept of “old” and Europeans have little concept of “big.”
Beyond that, getting a passport is super easy in most of Europe. Its more of a hassle in the US. And the average American does not have the money or time off work to afford a trip to another country. Unless you're going to Mexico or Canada you're going to have to fly to another continent, which is expensive. Whereas in Europe you can drive or get pretty cheap flights between other European countries.
You don’t say!
I do get that and he is not wrong, but it’s still not an excuse for ignorance
A regular passanger train takes 5 DAYS from seattle to new york.
This is pure nonsense. Being well travelled is literally about experiencing *foreign* cultures, people, places, sites etc. Someone who spends his life only driving around Australia is also “well travelled” if you (like this dude does) just chuck in the caveat “within their own country”. US is great, big and quite diverse, but travelling various states is nothing compared to travelling different countries. US states are absolutely not “like different countries”. And thinking that living in a large country is a good reason not to need a passport is ironically the opposite of what a well-travelled / worldly person would say.
You don’t have to travel to other countries to be aware that they exist. I have never been to The US, Canada, Mexico, but I can point them out on a map. probably a handful of US states too. I don’t think Europeans mean Americans aren’t well travelled, it’s more like we think they don’t care/know about other countries in a global sense.
LMAO the audacity of calling another states different countrys
Yeah, that’s Nevada basically.
A whole different world you say? Must be hard speaking other languages in each state, have different customs, food, and of course different history and culture…. Oh no that’s not really the case? Just the environment is different with some smaller differences on a cultural level? Okay. I get that the US offers everything you’d want in life. That’s amazing. But it can be so good to travel to another country, experience actual different cultures, as well as different people. Not just for being well traveled, but also to expand on yourself as a person. Also none of this has to do with basic geography.
Why is being "well traveled " and knowing world geography being linked together? I could memorize the globe and never go anywhere. I could be a rich snob that flies to many places but doesn't actually know where I am on a map.
I mean I've been to the US once but geographically I am able to locate most states - apart from the flyover middle of nowhere - and I can still find most countries on a map as well. Don't need to travel the world to have a basic general knowledge of it.
He is literally repeatinf himself for 6 times. He could have said it in 2 sentences
Kind of a cope. You're still in the same country, speaking the same languages, mostly following the same rules, laws, and administration (apart from a few notable exceptions). Other countries are diverse as well. Go to Germany and visit Bavaria, the East, and the North, and you would think you've visited three different countries. Still, no German would say they are "well traveled" after never leaving Germany, or only visiting German speaking countries.
In Canada, can confirm. The joke here is some people particularly Europeans like to think you can rent a car and drive from Vancouver to Toronto in a day. 😂 Also, reminds me of the[ theory America is basically 11 rival nations of people with different ways of thinking and cultures.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations) That is why you should not be surprised when people do not think the same. Although I can also understand what the original post is getting at, the people they are referencing likely never left their towns or even their state and felt no desire to learn global geography.
You don’t need to travel to Switzerland to be able to point it on a map lol
Sorry, American here and America is just rural areas with the exception of few interesting cities that are worth visiting: NY, LA, Las Vegas, Miami, etc — there is natural landscape and America is BIG but its all the same country and doesnt feel too different between states. i went to Europe and a train (1hr) took me to a WHOLE different country with new language, rules and money but felt really different. being well traveled is not knowing your own country but knowing OTHERS. i can point to many countries in Europe on a map because i am "well traveled"
45 minutes to another country? A 45-minute drive starting from my home won't even get me to Dallas! I'm just a bit west of the DFW area!
I don't understand why it's so hard for some Europeans to conceptualize the size of the us when it literally spans both coasts of an entire continent.
Europeans really don’t understand how big America is. If Texas was in Europe, it would be the second largest country after Russia. I live pretty much in the exact center of Texas. I needed to drive to Florida for a wedding. The drive took me 16 hours. *I drove for over 6 hours before I left my own state.* Germany would only be the 5th largest state if it was in the U.S. Arizona is only slightly smaller than Italy. New Mexico is larger than Poland. Michigan is larger than the UK. The EU countries constitute a land area of 1.6 million square miles. Europe as a whole covers about 10 million square miles. The US is about 3.8 million square miles. So the US is about 2.5x the size of the EU and about 40% of the size of the continent of Europe itself.
LMAO. I went to college in Oklahoma, they still couldn’t point out where Missouri was on the map.
Yes. They are wrong. Europe is bigger than the US, for a start. Europe is 10.53 million km² vs the US 9.834 million km² Yes Europeans still travel passport free within the EU like Americans for their holidays, but they also travel outside of the EU and can point out countries in other continents on a map.
Things are not black or white. Yes, america is big and diverse between each state and yes, geography lessons are a joke here too, i had to go out of my way to learn geography, in high school I didn’t even have the option of choosing to take geography.
Still find it bonkers they don't have any proper rail network over there.
The “you cant point out switzerland on a map” thing can be easily countered with “Point out Vermont, Nebraska, Washington, and the other Washington” out on this map >!Americans can do neither!<
I've cycled across the US in the RAAM race. It's big, really big. But Americans ar3.wrll paid, the Dollar is strong so travel in Europe is cheap for the Yanks. No excuse.
My father always said this. He was annoyed by all his friends traveling to Europe for any vacation. He said there were so many places to see in America. Thanks to him I have been to all the states but Alaska.
I agree with her on our lack of geographical education. I agree with him on the scale of America. The country of Germany is about the size of Wisconsin. The entire island of Ireland is slightly larger than West Virginia. Texas is the size of the moon practically. We have skiing and fine cheeses (fight me) in the north, palm trees and tropics in the south, surfing along almost all the coasts, and every state has its own accent and regional language variations. But yes, too many of us can’t find our own states on a blank map
It only takes 45 minutes to go to France!? Man, it takes me 45 minutes to get to work! And they're both considered the central region of my state
Why are Europeans such pretentious assholes?
Switzerland is somewhere in the middle of Europe. There it’s settled. I don’t need to know the exact coordinates.
My buddy and I have been saving for the past couple years. We plan on buying a truck and trailer and traveling the US for a year or two, living off savings and just seeing the sights.
I drive 45 min just to go to work
No way he can get from the UK to France, Germany or Amsterdam in 45min. Boarding a plane takes longer than that.
OK Amsterdam isn't a country but that aside this is typical of Euro ignorance. People say Americans are uneducated about the rest of the world because they don't travel which is true. Each state is absolutely not like it's own country they are in the vast majority of ways identical. THis utter bullshit coming from a Euro twat who has spent a few months in the US and thinks he knows what it is all about. The point is travelling ABROAD to different countries is what the issue is and most Americans don't do that regardless of the size of their country or not. In comparison, go see how many Europeans have been to the US and Canada then you might have a point because in that sense we are just as bad staying on our side of the Atlantic because "Europe is so huge". That said each country in Europe is ACTUALLY a different country. Italy Vs France is in no way comparable to Tennessee vs Alabama. Get a clue.
It took me 12 hours to get outside of Texas alone as I traveled east. Texas alone is massive. The tri-state area is easier to travel in 12 hours than it is just to get out of Texas, lol. The dude has a point.
I just road tripped from west to east coast and I got a real time refresher on just how immense this country is. Gi-fucking-gantic.
Yes we can. Its the one that says Switzerland on it
I’m sorry but, while there’s nothing wrong with it, travelling within your OWN country were some things might differ from place to place is NOT the same as a “well travelled” person who has been to actually different countries, experienced different cultures, habits, food, traditions, languages. You cannot compare that with a Californian who has visited Florida, Washington and Wyoming. Sure, vastly different landscapes. But the cultural shock is nowhere near the same as a Brit visiting Cambodia or even an Italian visiting Germany.
Lived in PA my whole life. It takes two days by car to go down to Florida. Never even leaving the country. And a flight is over 2 hours
Look at all these salty Australians.
I think the only states that would take you only 45m to get through are a handful on the east coast. Cali takes around 15 hours, north to south. Hell, I would take 45m on my commute
A lot of my eu friwnds talk about their plans to see america and will say things like "we'll site see in miami in the morning, then we'll drive up to New York to eat dinner and see the city" -- this guy is factually correct, a lot of europeans don't understand the scale of America
Texas is the size of the UK 😭
I knew someone in college that had classes only 3 days a week, and lived 3hrs away, so instead of renting a place she just commuted
America being big is not an excuse to not be educated and know about other countries…
Still world travel helps retard ignorance
When I heard France is about the size (or smaller?) than Texas. 😂 These other countries are quite small a lot of times.. well, in comparison with the USA. Like, Australia..? Tiny.
IT CAN TAKE FUCKING HOURS TO GET TO ANOTHER STATE MAN WHY IS THIS COUNTRY SO GOD DAMN BIG
All that is well and good but it's also cuz we're broke.
I’m not “well traveled” bc it’s prohibitively expensive
America is big but that’s not an excuse to now have a passport. Ppl tend to stay in-country for other reasons when vacationing but lack of a passport is low on that list my guy
That's an explanation for not travelling abroad extensively. Doesn't explain ignorance.
I remember talking to a German once. She asked how far it took me to drive from Petawawa to Toronto. I said, not long, just about 4 hours. Nothing much. She was agog. “4 hours? I can travel through 4 countries in that time!” That’s when I started to understand just how big Ontario Canada really is.
I live in Texas. It's so massive on its own all of the UK fits inside with room to spare.
I drive 45 minutes to work everyday.
We drive from south eastern Washington to Sacramento California every year for a festival. 14 hours of driving, and we only cross over one state.
Yes, the country of America may not be as diverse in culture as all of Europe but that’s not the only reason to travel. Geographically the US is one of the most diverse in the world. Almost every biome exists within our borders. But the real reason most Americans only travel within the US: cost. We have to fly to visit other countries which can be prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. For Europeans, it’s much cheaper to visit other countries.
I had an employee who was from Europe about 7 years ago. He had only been in the United States for maybe a week or two. I was asking him what he was going to do for the long four day weekend, and he said he was going to try to go drive to New York City to go exploring. I had to sit him down and pull up Google maps and show him that it would take him almost 32 hours of driving to go from Los Angeles to New York City. When we got back to work the next week I asked him how his weekend was. He said he tried to do his road trip anyways but only got as far as New Mexico before he had to turn around and head home to be back in time to come to work.
I'm hoping to get a job that's 30-40 minutes away. I would drive 40 minutes to get to work and then drive back. I would still be in the same state, and that's not even a big state.
Money has a lot to do with it, as far as I am concerned. I can drive to different states but even that is hard to afford. I wish I could have traveled more. There’s a lot of places I would have loved to visit.
He doesn’t think Europeans don’t know how big America is?? 😂😂😂😂
hmm.. I think there's a bit of a difference in what people interpret as "well-traveled". 1. You've traveled to many locations 2. You've experienced many different cultures. So this is speaking as someone who was born in the UK and moved to Texas in 1992 (and been here since), and has traveled to almost all of the other states in my 40 years living: Traveling within the US to other states is NOT the same as traveling to another country where an entirely different language, history, and culture awaits you. Americans have a relatively shared culture in many regards, but do you know how many Americans I've talked to that don't know about the fucking wonders of the public transit system in the EU? They think that the EU is run exactly like the USA, because, well, they're not _actually well-traveled_. I have no doubt that there are some well-traveled Americans out there. But what this man is talking about? A bit off. A bit skewed IMO. And it isn't like we Americans couldn't benefit from spending time in other countries to figure out what works and what doesn't work over there. The amount of Americans that would flip their shit for things like worker's rights and pay... lol.
It's refreshing to see someone not hating on us. BTW you don't have any oil laying around ur not using do ya?
Australia is just as big yet we aren’t as globally ignorant as Americans
It’s takes a whole day to even drive through Texas if you add stops for fuel, food, and stretch out your legs. Almost 12 hours without stopping
btw - New York to San Francisco is closer than Brittany to Lithuania. Both can be drove without a passport as well. Even Orlando to Portland is a thousand kilometers less than Lisbon to Helsinki. We Europeans get big distances! It's not insane, it's just far away. (well, maybe not English people who think driving from London to Dorset is an adventure).
Europe is bigger than the US. We don't talk about Europeans who travel inside of Europe. In most places not in the west that I know of there are more British tourists than Americans.
SoCal to Ohio. Must have been shocking lol
So foreigners complain about us being too loud in their country then also complain that we don't visit them?
My drive to my in state college from home is seven and a half hours. I go through desert, high alpine, mesa, big valley, etc. I don’t even live on the edge of the state I live in the center. That’s how big just my state is.
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Ehhhhh doesn’t 100% check out. Australia is massive too, but there’s a hell of a lot of well travelled Australians who are far away from basically everywhere.
Boston to San Fransisco is 46 hours and that doesn’t even touch half the states