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  • AmyAye@nord.pubtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAbsolutely
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    18 hours ago

    This is not a critisism on you, or Europe.

    But if feels like people not from America, don’t quite get just how much land the US has (and frankly, Canada too). Especially in some things like “why don’t they all go protest their shitty leadership.” Because for some people its a 40 hour drive, or an expensive plane ticket.

    Its also why we have no got “high speed rail”. Part of that is, we do have rail, but its still slow, becsuse its a lot of distance. And maintaining a high speed rail that long would be very difficult (I think we should still do it).

    I live in a rural area, which is probably more comparable to your experience, it takes aroujd 45 min to an hour to get to one of several small-mid sized cities. But all are within the same state, and all of those are another 60-90 min to the nearest state border at a minimum.






  • AmyAye@nord.pubtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAbsolutely
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    23 hours ago

    Have you been to large cities? I bet you can drive an hour from actual Chicago and still be in the suburbs of Chicago. For example. And not cross over farm lands either.

    Just doing some casual google mapsing.

    Chicago to Naperville, Plainfield, and Elgin, are all roughly an hour, and its all pretty much populated area the entire trip on each. Its basically an hour in any direction to reach the edge of the Chicago suburbs.

    Its 2 hours north to Milwaukee and if you stayed along the lake route it would probably be populated suburb areas all the way too.