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.
Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
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.
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
You’re comparing an entire country to the US’ 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
Yeah, but you aren’t driving that fast in Germany, apparently. The Texas trip will be over 1,400 km.
Yeah, but you aren’t driving that fast in Germany
*confused autobahn noises*
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
Is there a secret emu army? Ready to repel all potential land invaders somehow crazy enough to attempt Australia?
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
Just take the train…
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn’t exist over there…
We have trains, they’ll just take 2-3x as long.
And I’m not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that’ll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.
So yeah, it’s an option, just a really crappy one.
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!
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.
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.
Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel’s airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.
