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

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (3 children)

Plenty of people in the US do this.

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[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours 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 1 day ago (1 child)

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

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

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