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re: My Niece will Be Attending Oxford for a Semester
Posted on 5/18/24 at 8:02 am to MoarKilometers
Posted on 5/18/24 at 8:02 am to MoarKilometers
Correct. Miles v Kilometers is part of the joke.
Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about. Some people commute that distance daily. Europeans would base a long weekend vacation around that travel. I am headed to the UK next month for work. The meeting site is a 90 minute drive from their HQ. Their crew is coming in a day early "because of the drive" instead of just coming up the morning of our meetings.
Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about. Some people commute that distance daily. Europeans would base a long weekend vacation around that travel. I am headed to the UK next month for work. The meeting site is a 90 minute drive from their HQ. Their crew is coming in a day early "because of the drive" instead of just coming up the morning of our meetings.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 8:08 am to jbgleason
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Correct. Miles v Kilometers is part of the joke.
Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about. Some people commute that distance daily. Europeans would base a long weekend vacation around that travel. I am headed to the UK next month for work. The meeting site is a 90 minute drive from their HQ. Their crew is coming in a day early "because of the drive" instead of just coming up the morning of our meetings.
Truth. A lot of it is the culture that makes them kind of homebodies (they don't really leave their town) and the fact that their roadways aren't really built for fast and easy travel. Like you said, I can remember traveling with friends to go see a show in a neighboring town about 90 minutes away and they were packing snacks like we were going cross country -- which in a sense we were.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 9:26 am to jbgleason
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Their concept of distance is crazy though. The idea of driving a couple of hours is something people in the US don't think about.
True. I work with some folks from Europe. When I told them I was driving from Atlanta to New Mexico,, they had no concept of how far it was. When I told them how far it was in kilometers, they couldn't grasp the idea of a trip that long, especially one where you never had to go through a checkpoint or have a passport.
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