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by LargeWu 5737 days ago
Reminds me of the adage: In America, 100 years is a long time. In England, 100 miles is a long distance.
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My parents and I live in Texas, and they went to New York a few years ago on vacation, renting a car and just driving around for awhile.

They'd take out a map, determine their approximate route from point A to point B, figure it would take about three hours... and arrive, confused, 45 minutes later.

Wish we had an autobahn-like road system here to get around faster. 80mph federal speed limit is ridiculous with the cars we have these days.
It is however, perfectly sane considering the drivers we have these days.