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The US has so much space
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Even the wee UK has (slightly implausible) drives this long. The distance is less - but our roads are shit! ๐
Yours are shit? Just wait until you come here to Czechia (not really a long drive but your car's suspension will definitely be nearly dead)
That drives you through two different countries, imagine if you started and ended that drive in North Yorkshire driving in a straight line. I think this is what they meant by "the European mind cannot comprehend" shoutout.
Texas isn't a county, though, is it? US states are more analogous to countries than counties. My example is both in one country (the UK) and passing through 2 (England and Scotland) at the same time! I was really just being silly because the UK is so small but it takes so long to get anywhere.
But yah, America is big.
Except Finland is a country and Texas is just one state in a country. That's where the confusion usually results.
While the legal and cultural dynamics are different, the EU/member states are comparable to the US and it's states. I think if you're talking about "the European mind" as opposed to the "American", it seems fair to compare all of Europe to all of (North) America, no? Otherwise there is no analogue to US states in Europe, there are just countries and their (variously named) counties etc.
Isn't Texas the state that in High school was voted "Most likely to secede"?
Fastest route from south of Norway to north of Norway would be through Sweden and take you 1 day and 6 hours, if you want to stay in Norway for the whole route it would take you 1 day and 11 hours. Driving to Rome would be faster.
Damn you Norwegians, you win. Just keep sending us fish and we good.
Damn, i was like " how slow are you travelling in norway? New zealand guy also posted ca 2500 km and it just took him 29 hours. How can he do it in less than a day when you need almost two days"
This is the landscape you will be mostly driving through
And the further north you get the worse the road conditions will be, not to mention parts of the "highway" up there goes through the towns with lower speed limit. People up north likes to joke about the infrastructure being bad up there just to slow down Russia if they ever decide to invade.
On the plus side, it's a beautiful road trip to make. Much more enjoyable than driving down south near the capital where it's less mountainous but better highway.
I'd also like to point out that 29 hours is 1 day and 5 hours, so not that far off from the fastest route if you go through Sweden.
If I could move to any country in the world, it would be Finland. Cleanest air and water in the world. Here in salt lake city Utah, we have a magnesium facility for national security purposes due to China cornering the market that puts a lot of very nasty stuff in the air. Due to our geography of a valley surrounded by mountains, in the winter sometimes inversions happen and that + all the other airborne pollutants will be trapped & the citizenry gets to breath that ๐ ๐
I don't think China has got the power. It is in fact USA or specifically local factories that should be held accountable
I mean really it's stupid they have that factory where it is with the geography. But always gotta think about them profits for individual actors lol