After having worked in Texas a few years, the food is waaay worse there. (A few places in Dallas Deep Ellum were good, and I never made it to Austin, but on average, but great).
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya'll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don't even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
New York to Hawaii can be a 13 hour flight depending on the Island you wanna land on. Alaska to Miami is similar and even drivable. Fairbanks to Miami is a brisk 77 hour drive.
About your edit, that's why I added the disclaimer on my first comment lol. I fully knew it would degenerate in a biggest dick contest and wanted to avoid being part of it.
Yes, how is this relevant? The point is they were comparing the length of time to cross a single American state to the time to cross an entire country, which are two different things. Driving through Texas isn't equivalent to driving through Germany, it's equivalent to driving through Bavaria.
It is because most of the EU participates in an agreement without hard borders and is united by a larger entity that collects taxes and holds elections in its states/countries.
The degree of federalism is higher in the USA than Europeans think it is. After all, each American state has at least one army.
Ah, in that case, no, you're still wrong and we are not anything like the EU, not really. The of autonomy and sovereignty each member of the EU has is vastly different, and mostly vastly greater, than that of each of the individual states of America. Again, the correct equivalence isn't America = EU, it's America = Germany and Texas = Bavaria. Hope that helps.
I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren't the best but you're still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
Depends where you're starting in Alaska most likely. There are major areas that are not connected to the rest of North America by road, only boat/ferry where Google might not include that.
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we're also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don't think a straight road exists here.
Just for funsies I looked it up and Miami FL to Seattle WA is a 48 hour drive. Longest I found within the continental US upon a quick googling of recognizable cities.
Thats a bit more than the Alaska to Miami drives I found. I think there one where you can drive all the way to an arctic research base in a similar timeframe.
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.
The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?
I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
People want to live next to people, and in specific areas. You can buy a nice house in bumfuck nowhere for cheap, or you can get an apartment in Austin for much more.
As a transplant Bumfuckian for well over a decade now, no you can't. It's only cheap if you're bringing your income or savings account from a non-bumfuck region.
I'm saying that people should live in geographic place that is Texas, not necessarily in the political construct that is Texas. Because I wouldn't want to live in the latter either.
I don’t even know if I agree with that, it’s mostly desert or at the very least incredibly arid. It’ll end up being even worse than Southern California or Nevada, massive amounts of people pulling water from an aquifer too small to sustain them.
People need to live in areas that have the resources to support them.
Nothing. I didn't say it was, did I? I just said that the US has an awful lot of space on this planet that is home to all of us and still can't manage to house people.
Come to think of it, I said everything besides space was the issue, didn't I?
Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there's very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
But the finnish trip is 1387 km, from orange to el paso trough san antonio 1373 km. So the finnish fastest route is longer in length too. But yeah we don't have as fast highways whicg makes the trip way longer in time
Sure, but really from the Louisiana border to the New Mexico border along that route is 1419 km. This morning it says that'll take just over 13 hours because you'd hit rush hour traffic in Houston
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that's not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it's because that's what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to "gas."
One could ask why only "gasoline" is called "petrol" elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn't diesel also called "petrol?"
The problem with "gas" is, that it's a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you'd use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
Yeah wait hold up I'm in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Edit: funnier - it shows as "gas" in Android Auto but "fuel" on maps when not in AA. Both know I'm an EV and show "charging stations" and not "gas stations"
americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we're not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we're able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
Right, but they were the ones comparing a country to a state to begin with, so I compared a country to a country. If you want to compare continents... That's a different story.
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Everything's bigger in Texas, except WA that shit is huge...!
Initially I did Kununurra to Eucla which is approx 40hrs, but you can do it in 38 hrs if you go through the territory and SA. In the efforts of keeping things fair and saying in the same state such as the OP, Esperance seemed to prove the point. There's defs longer commutes, but shy of triple seemed to be enough to prove a point.
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
But that's crossing a country. Texas is a state. Going from San Diego to Portland, Maine is ~46 hours, and that's probably not the longest route. There's also Alaska and Hawaii (no direct roads to the contiguous 48 states), and Florida, that's just a pretty long route off the top of my head.
Your geography lesson for today is to map 2 routes across the EU and compare them to your statement.
Map the longest route across the continental EU.
Connect the farthest points of France by way of Paris and compare it to the distance between Hawaii and New York. (Hint: Start is in South America or the Caribbean and finish is in the Pacific. )
Lol, I always forget how much random stuff France owns across the globe.
But here's an overlay of the EU on the contiguous 48 US states from Reddit (doesn't include Alaska, which is half as big as the whole US). That even gives the EU UK, which is no longer a member state. Alaska is really really big (like more than half the size of the lower 48 states).
Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don't. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
Sometimes I wonder if they do that on purpose just to amuse Americans/Australians/Canadians. "Remember to ask to see things in three corners of the continent in an afternoon and watch them explain how unreasonably gigantic the place is. They seem to love it."
On the other hand I did once have to explain to one of my British friends what American TV bumpers meant when they said "nine, eight central." You don't tend to think about time zones when your whole country fits in one of them.
Bfd. I can drive 13 hours in Germany from the Dutch border and still be stuck in a fucking traffic jam around Frankfurt on highway 3 and never get to my skiing destination in Austria.
Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA'ean mind.
I know lots of euro bros are showing how long their country is, but I think the point is that Texas is a state, not country. When you compare those things it's quite impressive, however still not even the largest state in the world. Here are some others. A nice drive from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay will cost you 17 hours, or in Amazonas, Brazil, Manaus to Cruzeiro do Sul is 33 hours.
To the guy who annexed Arizona into California in order to beat Texas, shame.
Euros: Why didn't Americans go to other countries?
Americans: there's only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.
All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It's debatable if Louisianans speak English.
Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.
A German and a Texan meet in a bar.
The Texan says: "When I get in my car and just drive once around my property, it takes all day."
The German says: "Yeah, I had a car like that once."
Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.
I once drove 6 hours to get out of Texas only to be stuck miles from the border for another 6 hours because three semi-trucks collided and caught fire...
I took the family on vacation to Texas a couple weeks ago. Flew into Houston, stayed there a few nights, then Austin for a few, then Dallas, for a couple then back to Houston for a few more and flew back.
Just mapping out the loop between the three cities is 9.5 hours and 623 miles. Add in slowdowns for poor visibility due to weather, stops to charge and use the restroom (with small kids), it was easily 12 hours, at least, of total road time.
The American mind can't just comprehend that there's world besides the USA. Australia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland as many pointed out all have longer routes. Don't let me get started on Russia or we might end up with a new race between the US and Russia trying to come with the longest road.
Another thing the American mind can't just comprehend (about Europe) is how someone can drive across multiple countries without ever stopping on checkpoints/border controls/customs and most of time without even exiting/changing highways.
The American mind can’t just comprehend what it is to send money to a friend in another EU country with just a single number. No 3rd party services, no routing and account numbers, no fees, no banking shenanigans. Simply login into your European bank, type the value and the IBAN and the transfer is done. :)
On the other hand, when you start from Texline (which I suppose is the starting point of that 13 hour journey) in the northeast of the state, you could easily escape Texas within minutes.
On the other hand, in Europe you can get through a number of countries in thirteen hours just because we have a working road system.
The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world. Say what you want about our lack of public transportation, but we're a country built for cars. Vroom, vroom, motherfucker.
IMO the USA doesn't have that much "space" it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.
Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it's possible also in France .
Edit: don't want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
The sun never sets on the
BritishFrench empire!Le soleil ne se couche jamais sur l'empire français*
Silly France, why are you reinstalling a monarch after all these y- Oh no...
Don't worry he says he is Jupiter, everything will be fine.
Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
Funny, I say the same thing about Texas.
After having worked in Texas a few years, the food is waaay worse there. (A few places in Dallas Deep Ellum were good, and I never made it to Austin, but on average, but great).
France please.
Dunno, croissants
I'd watch that movie
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya'll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don't even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
french guiana is part of france, and the eu.
New York to Hawaii can be a 13 hour flight depending on the Island you wanna land on. Alaska to Miami is similar and even drivable. Fairbanks to Miami is a brisk 77 hour drive.
So is Réunion. Shall we count the time to take a boat to the island or just a flight?
You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
Fair enough
Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
About your edit, that's why I added the disclaimer on my first comment lol. I fully knew it would degenerate in a biggest dick contest and wanted to avoid being part of it.
I sincerely wish I had your wisdom and foresight. I just can't imagine caring the way these people seem to care.
You are united states tho. Similiar to EU in 100 years.
That’s not correct at all.
Yes, how is this relevant? The point is they were comparing the length of time to cross a single American state to the time to cross an entire country, which are two different things. Driving through Texas isn't equivalent to driving through Germany, it's equivalent to driving through Bavaria.
The longest I can get for Bavaria is five hours.
It is because most of the EU participates in an agreement without hard borders and is united by a larger entity that collects taxes and holds elections in its states/countries.
The degree of federalism is higher in the USA than Europeans think it is. After all, each American state has at least one army.
Ok, edited it.
Ah, in that case, no, you're still wrong and we are not anything like the EU, not really. The of autonomy and sovereignty each member of the EU has is vastly different, and mostly vastly greater, than that of each of the individual states of America. Again, the correct equivalence isn't America = EU, it's America = Germany and Texas = Bavaria. Hope that helps.
Better now?
Yeah nah
Okay, so tell me then which of these you believe:
That the EU as a whole should only have one singular seat in the UN, NATO, and other similar organizations,
Or that every American state should have their own seat in the UN, NATO, and others?
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren't the best but you're still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
That's a long ass road trip, thanks for sharing. I was trying to get directions from Alaska to southern Argentina but Google said nope
You can't drive from north to south america! Look up Darien Gap
Til
Sounds like we need to remedy that, tunnel through the Gulf of Mexico or some bridges across the gap’s rivers, which is cooler?
Depends where you're starting in Alaska most likely. There are major areas that are not connected to the rest of North America by road, only boat/ferry where Google might not include that.
Yes, good luck with the Darian Gap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_Gap
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we're also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
May I present Kiruna to Trelleborg (1882 km) in Sweden?
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don't think a straight road exists here.
1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Texas will still make their back roads 80mph lmao, even with grade crossings
Nearly all of it is Autobahn. It is basically just road work slowing you down and even that is not too bad.
Just for funsies I looked it up and Miami FL to Seattle WA is a 48 hour drive. Longest I found within the continental US upon a quick googling of recognizable cities.
I did a similar diagonal route across Canada. 84 hours it says.
Thats a bit more than the Alaska to Miami drives I found. I think there one where you can drive all the way to an arctic research base in a similar timeframe.
You can't drive to Alaska without entering Canada
Okay.
Kind of unrelated but i met a dude from scotland who walked across canada with his dog luna... Took a little while
Now, that starts to be a long distance lmao
You're comparing an entire country to the US' 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
As stated in other comments I don't care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
Ops post would be more effective by stating average speed.
Since we are doing whole countries, you can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and still be in Russia:
I can't even zoom out enough.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Yeah, but you aren't driving that fast in Germany, apparently. The Texas trip will be over 1,400 km.
*confused autobahn noises*
If the Texas Trip is near the speed of the German trip, it is likely that the German trip isn't taking place on the Autobahn.
Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat
Americans don't really care about how big AUS is, we just can't figure out how your wildlife is as deadly as our high school students
It's mostly the emus that you need to watch out for... Just ask our army
Is there a secret emu army? Ready to repel all potential land invaders somehow crazy enough to attempt Australia?
Not so secret.
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/the-emu-war-of-1932
The American mind cannot comprehend this!
How long is the drive from Nome to Juneau?
I just punched it into my GPS to find out and it came back with results for plane tickets lol, I didn’t even know my GPS app could do that
Gotta watch out for that one speed camera
I was coming in with this cause it's straighter haha.
Then see you WA post.
I've done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I'm actually going
I haven't done the WA one but I've done Adelaide to Darwin which was a very barron but beautiful drive, would love to do the WA trip one day
Sounds like the perfect place to go for a drive and listen to the Left Right game.
The world bows to Australia
And there's about a 40% chance to survive the trip.
Well there's a European country where you need a week long train trip from one part of it to the other.
It's only 1hr longer than Tweed Heads to Cape York in QLD
True. Everyone there lives on the southeast side, though.
So?
Just take the train...
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn't exist over there.....
Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.
If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!
Best I can do is another McMansion.
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.
The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?
I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
People want to live next to people, and in specific areas. You can buy a nice house in bumfuck nowhere for cheap, or you can get an apartment in Austin for much more.
As a transplant Bumfuckian for well over a decade now, no you can't. It's only cheap if you're bringing your income or savings account from a non-bumfuck region.
Manifest fucking destiny/s
Are you suggesting that more people should live in Texas? I don’t think this is the humanitarian viewpoint that you seem to think it is lol.
I'm saying that people should live in geographic place that is Texas, not necessarily in the political construct that is Texas. Because I wouldn't want to live in the latter either.
I don’t even know if I agree with that, it’s mostly desert or at the very least incredibly arid. It’ll end up being even worse than Southern California or Nevada, massive amounts of people pulling water from an aquifer too small to sustain them.
People need to live in areas that have the resources to support them.
What makes you think lack of space is the issue??
Nothing. I didn't say it was, did I? I just said that the US has an awful lot of space on this planet that is home to all of us and still can't manage to house people.
Come to think of it, I said everything besides space was the issue, didn't I?
Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
Those paycheck advance places were the monsters...
Best I can do is a lifted truck with Monster energy drink decals. Take it or leave it
Especially when you get to the desert biome of west Texas.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
Maybe not most of America but LA has some famously grueling traffic.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there's very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
I, a German, am also struggling with travel times/distances in Britain.
Me: (looks at map) I should be there in 1h tops.
Hours pass…
Me: I’m only half way there? WTF!
We have that in Texas too.
There are millions of cars in the Austin area, and at any given time all of them are on Mopac.
The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances
My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
But the finnish trip is 1387 km, from orange to el paso trough san antonio 1373 km. So the finnish fastest route is longer in length too. But yeah we don't have as fast highways whicg makes the trip way longer in time
Sure, but really from the Louisiana border to the New Mexico border along that route is 1419 km. This morning it says that'll take just over 13 hours because you'd hit rush hour traffic in Houston
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that's not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
Why is fuel called gas
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it's because that's what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to "gas."
One could ask why only "gasoline" is called "petrol" elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn't diesel also called "petrol?"
The problem with "gas" is, that it's a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you'd use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
Yeah wait hold up I'm in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Edit: funnier - it shows as "gas" in Android Auto but "fuel" on maps when not in AA. Both know I'm an EV and show "charging stations" and not "gas stations"
It's an abbreviation for "gasoline"
americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we're not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we're able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked 😂
A French person takes the high speed train lmao
Oh, hon hon.
lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.
I agree, our infrastructure is definitely fucked. But the US has ~10 million sq km of space to France's ~552,000 sq km.
Europe has 10 sq km. Let's not compare pommes to oranges.
Right, but they were the ones comparing a country to a state to begin with, so I compared a country to a country. If you want to compare continents... That's a different story.
Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.
Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.
It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)
Hahahahahaha, you made me spit my coffee, take my upvote
To be fair days are different: metric day is always 86400 seconds long while UTC day is 86399-86401 seconds long.
You can suck my utus
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!
Everything's bigger in Texas, except WA that shit is huge...!
Initially I did Kununurra to Eucla which is approx 40hrs, but you can do it in 38 hrs if you go through the territory and SA. In the efforts of keeping things fair and saying in the same state such as the OP, Esperance seemed to prove the point. There's defs longer commutes, but shy of triple seemed to be enough to prove a point.
PS love the username
Kununurra to Eucla is 40 hours, suprisingly it's 3 hours quicker to go through northern territory and south Australia.
Cheers, thought I'd let them know who they're arguing with.
I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)
You've lost me the USA is a country as well.?
In Aus, we have a state called Western Australia (we're really imaginative with naming,) and its friggin huge...! (Pictured)
Approx 2.6 million km2 Or approx 1 million sq freedom units
Ahh, okay. I didn't look at the picture very closely; I had no idea Australia had states! Nifty
Yeah..! Just not 50 of them,
6 states and 2 internal territories (baby states)
Oh so cute! Is that why we hesitate to give them any autonomy?
Think its second only to a massive Russian state
Nope, they meant that Texas is supposed to be a country.
Like brexit on steroids, it would be cool to watch. buys a container full of popcorn
What about North South whales?
If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.
Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.
All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it's fair to say that's the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
Does that account for times you have to stop to brawl with a moose?
If you're brawling with a moose then you're not a true Canadian. Every Canadian knows the moose wins every time.
This is true. A moose once bit my sister.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
This is in one state.
That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It's not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
The 51st state is part of the USA, that's the whole point of this post. The Euros just can't grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke....
Your geography lesson for today is (Google) mapping a route from Brest to Menton (France) and compare it to the route posted by OP.
Your history lesson for today is looking up when Canada became the 51st state....and realize I was being sarcastic.
But that's crossing a country. Texas is a state. Going from San Diego to Portland, Maine is ~46 hours, and that's probably not the longest route. There's also Alaska and Hawaii (no direct roads to the contiguous 48 states), and Florida, that's just a pretty long route off the top of my head.
Your geography lesson for today is to map 2 routes across the EU and compare them to your statement.
Lol, I always forget how much random stuff France owns across the globe.
But here's an overlay of the EU on the contiguous 48 US states from Reddit (doesn't include Alaska, which is half as big as the whole US). That even gives the EU UK, which is no longer a member state. Alaska is really really big (like more than half the size of the lower 48 states).
As next lesson you’re going to learn about the failings of the Mercator projection - stay with me you’re going to love this!
While Alaska is pretty massive it is not as big as you think it is. Follow this link to the website that Redditor used to create the visual and drag Alaska onto the rest of the US: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYxNTY4MzI.ODIwNzY1OA*MTA0MzY2ODQ(MzUyODQ4MQ~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA~!US-AK*MzU2MjMwMg.Mjg0OTg3OTk)Mw
Next drag Greenland onto Africa and vice versa, then both onto the US. Amazing isn’t it?
This is awesome!!
This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.
Good thing mine is short AND skinny. Also I shake my hips way worse than Shakira.
Are you from a small state like Liechtenstein ?
Vatican City. We measure travel times via water balloon launches.
There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.
I didn't realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it's big.
If it were a state in Australia, it would be our third-smallest.
That's more a statement on the USA's tiny states than anything specific against Texas though.
Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:
As usual, California beats Texas
Is Arizona in California now?
Yeah, it was annexed yesterday.
This blew my European mind. Not because of the length of the road, but because it's only 7$.... Where I live highways are bloody expensive!
Youse pay for highways?
You have highways?
You have roads? And have something that can use them?
You have people who can drive things on roads?
Yeah, most of the world don't subsidize driving as much as the US.
Or free... If you waste an extra hour and change.
Oh neat! A long state. Everybody knows girth is more important.
Dumbass
Texas mfs in tears rn, the one advantage they had (size) has also been usurped by the californiatards
Welcome to Finland.
European here (Brit). I could drive for 13 hours along the M60 and still be on the M60. No problem comprehending that.
Extra Points if you count all the confederate flags and truck nuts that you see along the way!
That's fine, just don't do this as a drinking game, unless you want to die.
I know you mean from alcohol poisoning, but also don't drink and drive.
Yeah, that's not the good kind of D&D.
Giggles in aussie
Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don't. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
Sometimes I wonder if they do that on purpose just to amuse Americans/Australians/Canadians. "Remember to ask to see things in three corners of the continent in an afternoon and watch them explain how unreasonably gigantic the place is. They seem to love it."
On the other hand I did once have to explain to one of my British friends what American TV bumpers meant when they said "nine, eight central." You don't tend to think about time zones when your whole country fits in one of them.
You can drive as long as you want, it's still aussie
Western Australia has entered the chat
You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.
You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.
Also, if you're in Texas and you have the will to drive 13 hours, I imagine you'd want to leave Texas.
i can drive for 13 hours and not leave my driveway (i dont know how to drive)
You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:
Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Now someone reverse it for me, what's the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?
I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I've been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.
That's not driving for 25 hours, unless you're driving on water.
If we're doing ferries, what about Florida Keys to the north slope of Alaska?
What about Murmansk to Habarovsk?
That's multiple countries....
No, but he spends half the time on a ferry.
834miles? Is that a joke?
That's only 12hrs if you drive the speed limit
Yes, I can nearly feel my European mind shambling.
Bfd. I can drive 13 hours in Germany from the Dutch border and still be stuck in a fucking traffic jam around Frankfurt on highway 3 and never get to my skiing destination in Austria.
"In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.
You can drive for 10 hours and 30 minutes and still be in Germany.
In northern Canada you could drive that long without even seeing another person lol
A lot of you guys sharing pictures of your whole country as a 15 hour drive are missing the point here.
23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
Came here for this. Ontario is massive.
Where is the joke about the famous woman who would just use her jet?
And that doesn't even include the furthest communities or settlements. just fastest route to the Manitoba border.
There are a lot of communities in Northern Ontario that there are no direct roads to.
Trying to plot a bunch of routes out right now to get an idea and half the routes direct me to drive through the US to save time.
Windsor to Kenora is the longest I've plotted so far at 23 hours
Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA'ean mind.
Sure, but I can drive for more than 11 hours and still be in Romania 👍
There is no escape.
America to America, 2 days.
how many state-border did you cross there?
I know lots of euro bros are showing how long their country is, but I think the point is that Texas is a state, not country. When you compare those things it's quite impressive, however still not even the largest state in the world. Here are some others. A nice drive from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay will cost you 17 hours, or in Amazonas, Brazil, Manaus to Cruzeiro do Sul is 33 hours.
To the guy who annexed Arizona into California in order to beat Texas, shame.
Finland: 17 hours from Utsjoki to Helsinki.
Norway: 36 hours from Vardø to Lindsenes.
Sweden: idk why you'd go there
For beer
Haha, that's probably one of the last things to go Sweden, unless you like that 2.1% ultralight barely beer passable tank washing water
Wtf I can't even name a single Swedish beer
I can't even comprehend this comment. Swedes leave the country for beer.
Okay, but who wants to be in Texas?
I miss the days when Google maps would tell you to get in a canoe for transoceanic routes.
I suspect some enterprising person actually tried it, thus depriving the rest of us our directional humor.
Euros: Why didn't Americans go to other countries?
Americans: there's only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.
All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It's debatable if Louisianans speak English.
You can do that and still not get all the way through Nordland county (!) in Norway 🤷
oh look, an international dick measuring contest... except without dicks!
In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.
half of that time is sitting in san antonio traffic.
You can ride train for 16 hours in Poland and still be in Poland
Pfft, come to Ontario Canada, from 2 different boarders you can drive 24 hours and still be in Onterrible
The Euopean mind cannot comprehend having to drive 13 hours for what would take a train only 3
Fucking eat it Texas!
Wtf is a Woonsocket?
Its where you plug in your pawtucket
23 hours is about as high as you are going to get while maintaining a (relatively) straight path. The north is not really accessible by road.
Edit: I take that back. I managed to get up to 27 hours driving from the Ambassador Bridge to Windigo Lake.
Some people in Daytona Beach can drive 500 miles without even leaving the stadium.
California can be "longer". Could probably get to 14 hours.
Smith River to San Ysidro:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california&ia=web&iaxm=directions&iax=images&end=what%3ASan%2520Ysidro%2Cwhere%3ASan%2520Diego%252C%2520CA%252C%2520United%2520States&transport=drive&start=what%3ASmith%2520River%252C%2520CA%2Cwhere%3AUnited%2520States
pfft. its even longer in illinois if you drive into chicago during friday evening rush :)
“Chains recommended”
bedroom door sign
Nice. I wonder how much "fun" that drive is.
If it's anything like the rest of Alaska, it's probably beautiful
You're probably right.
I was thinking of how rough the roads must be.
I like that because of the roads it's actually faster to go up into Oregon and back down into California. Hehehe
they say everything is bigger in Texas and that includes Texas
Russia is in Europe and probably thinks that's cute.
Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.
Try tiny Norway with 6m people, you can drive 1 day 18 hours (almost 3000km)from the southwest to the northeast, shortest route.
People need to learn what ragebait means
Once again for those who didn't make it to our last session:
The M25.
With a car crappy enough you can take much longer for a much shorter distance
A German and a Texan meet in a bar.
The Texan says: "When I get in my car and just drive once around my property, it takes all day."
The German says: "Yeah, I had a car like that once."
russia. need i say more?
Longest I could get is 5.25 days.
“May include unpaid roads”
no way
yeah it should say "may include paved roads"
Yet property is expensive and mostly owned by the wealthy🤦♂️
Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.
Texas is bigger than Germany.
https://imgur.com/a/Vo1ZbpJ
I once drove 6 hours to get out of Texas only to be stuck miles from the border for another 6 hours because three semi-trucks collided and caught fire...
I'm Canadian, I drive 17 hours to get to work everyday.
I took the family on vacation to Texas a couple weeks ago. Flew into Houston, stayed there a few nights, then Austin for a few, then Dallas, for a couple then back to Houston for a few more and flew back.
Just mapping out the loop between the three cities is 9.5 hours and 623 miles. Add in slowdowns for poor visibility due to weather, stops to charge and use the restroom (with small kids), it was easily 12 hours, at least, of total road time.
We should turn the entire desert in Texas into a solar farm, and provide enough electricity for the entire world.
Solar and wind power is really big in Texas already. Maybe it could be done!
Fuck that. Texas has a terrible grid, and it isn't integrated with the surrounding states.
Put it in Iowa and Nebraska.
Okay. Let's do it!
Now do Alaska, Im willing to bet that you could find a route that will take a week even in the summer
Yeah, well, I can drive 1 hour and cross 3 borders. And I won't have to go through an immigration/customs checkpoint at any of these borders.
Russia: am I a joke to you?
How about Sweden?
The American mind can't just comprehend that there's world besides the USA. Australia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland as many pointed out all have longer routes. Don't let me get started on Russia or we might end up with a new race between the US and Russia trying to come with the longest road.
Another thing the American mind can't just comprehend (about Europe) is how someone can drive across multiple countries without ever stopping on checkpoints/border controls/customs and most of time without even exiting/changing highways.
The American mind can’t just comprehend what it is to send money to a friend in another EU country with just a single number. No 3rd party services, no routing and account numbers, no fees, no banking shenanigans. Simply login into your European bank, type the value and the IBAN and the transfer is done. :)
Let's just say that when crossing the Pyrenees you don't want to stray from the main north-south(ish) roads...
laughing cries in Brazilian
My european mind doesn't give a shit about the us , it doesn't even think of it .
On the other hand, when you start from Texline (which I suppose is the starting point of that 13 hour journey) in the northeast of the state, you could easily escape Texas within minutes.
On the other hand, in Europe you can get through a number of countries in thirteen hours just because we have a working road system.
The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world. Say what you want about our lack of public transportation, but we're a country built for cars. Vroom, vroom, motherfucker.
IMO the USA doesn't have that much "space" it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.
It seems the European mind is not that bright if you think a country's distance is equivalent to a state.