NoneOfUrBusiness comments on How far can you get in 8 hours of driving starting from 5 European capitals

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yeah but nobody would even consider driving from Lisbon to Helsinki if the goal is just to get from A to B; you'd make that trip by plane.

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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Plenty of people in the US do this.

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[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As a teenager/college student to have the experience, yes.

And then there’s families who do this, again for the experience. It's an American Rite of Passage without question.

But on the regular, LA to NY, ya gonna fly.

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[–] antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Only because gas was probably cheaper than water, but that changed recently.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yep. And because people in the US have a weird sense that their time has no value.

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