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.
You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
The sun never sets on the
BritishFrench empire!Le soleil ne se couche jamais sur l’empire français*
Silly France, why are you reinstalling a monarch after all these y- Oh no…
Don’t worry he says he is Jupiter, everything will be fine.
Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
Funny, I say the same thing about Texas.
After having worked in Texas a few years, the food is waaay worse there. (A few places in Dallas Deep Ellum were good, and I never made it to Austin, but on average, but great).
France please.
Dunno, croissants
I’d watch that movie
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.
It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
french guiana is part of france, and the eu.
New York to Hawaii can be a 13 hour flight depending on the Island you wanna land on. Alaska to Miami is similar and even drivable. Fairbanks to Miami is a brisk 77 hour drive.
So is Réunion. Shall we count the time to take a boat to the island or just a flight?
You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
Fair enough
Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
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.
I sincerely wish I had your wisdom and foresight. I just can’t imagine caring the way these people seem to care.
You are united states tho. Similiar to EU in 100 years.
That’s not correct at all.
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.
The longest I can get for Bavaria is five hours.
It is because most of the EU participates in an agreement without hard borders and is united by a larger entity that collects taxes and holds elections in its states/countries.
The degree of federalism is higher in the USA than Europeans think it is. After all, each American state has at least one army.
Ok, edited it.
Ah, in that case, no, you’re still wrong and we are not anything like the EU, not really. The of autonomy and sovereignty each member of the EU has is vastly different, and mostly vastly greater, than that of each of the individual states of America. Again, the correct equivalence isn’t America = EU, it’s America = Germany and Texas = Bavaria. Hope that helps.
Better now?
Yeah nah
Okay, so tell me then which of these you believe:
That the EU as a whole should only have one singular seat in the UN, NATO, and other similar organizations,
Or that every American state should have their own seat in the UN, NATO, and others?
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
You can’t drive from north to south america! Look up Darien Gap
Til
Sounds like we need to remedy that, tunnel through the Gulf of Mexico or some bridges across the gap’s rivers, which is cooler?
Depends where you’re starting in Alaska most likely. There are major areas that are not connected to the rest of North America by road, only boat/ferry where Google might not include that.
Yes, good luck with the Darian Gap
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.
May I present Kiruna to Trelleborg (1882 km) in Sweden?
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
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.
Texas will still make their back roads 80mph lmao, even with grade crossings
Nearly all of it is Autobahn. It is basically just road work slowing you down and even that is not too bad.
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.
I did a similar diagonal route across Canada. 84 hours it says.
Kind of unrelated but i met a dude from scotland who walked across canada with his dog luna… Took a little while
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 can’t drive to Alaska without entering Canada
Okay.
Now, that starts to be a long distance lmao
You’re comparing an entire country to the US’ 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
As stated in other comments I don’t care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
Ops post would be more effective by stating average speed.
Since we are doing whole countries, you can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and still be in Russia:
I can’t even zoom out enough.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
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*
If the Texas Trip is near the speed of the German trip, it is likely that the German trip isn’t taking place on the Autobahn.
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
It’s mostly the emus that you need to watch out for… Just ask our army
Is there a secret emu army? Ready to repel all potential land invaders somehow crazy enough to attempt Australia?
The American mind cannot comprehend this!
How long is the drive from Nome to Juneau?
I just punched it into my GPS to find out and it came back with results for plane tickets lol, I didn’t even know my GPS app could do that
Gotta watch out for that one speed camera
The world bows to 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
Sounds like the perfect place to go for a drive and listen to the Left Right game.
And there’s about a 40% chance to survive the trip.
It’s only 1hr longer than Tweed Heads to Cape York in QLD
True. Everyone there lives on the southeast side, though.
Well there’s a European country where you need a week long train trip from one part of it to the other.
So?
Just take the train…
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn’t exist over there…
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!
Best I can do is another McMansion.
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.
As a transplant Bumfuckian for well over a decade now, no you can’t. It’s only cheap if you’re bringing your income or savings account from a non-bumfuck region.
Manifest fucking destiny/s
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.
“Did… did you… DID YOU JUST SPOUT COMMIE WORDS?! THIS IS 'MURICA! NO FREE LUNCH, HOUSE, OR MEDICINES! EVAR!”
Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
Those paycheck advance places were the monsters…
Best I can do is a lifted truck with Monster energy drink decals. Take it or leave it
Especially when you get to the desert biome of west Texas.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
Maybe not most of America but LA has some famously grueling traffic.
I, a German, am also struggling with travel times/distances in Britain.
Me: (looks at map) I should be there in 1h tops.
Hours pass…
Me: I’m only half way there? WTF!
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there’s very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
We have that in Texas too.
There are millions of cars in the Austin area, and at any given time all of them are on Mopac.
The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances
My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
But the finnish trip is 1387 km, from orange to el paso trough san antonio 1373 km. So the finnish fastest route is longer in length too. But yeah we don’t have as fast highways whicg makes the trip way longer in time
Sure, but really from the Louisiana border to the New Mexico border along that route is 1419 km. This morning it says that’ll take just over 13 hours because you’d hit rush hour traffic in Houston
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that’s not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
Why is fuel called gas
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it’s because that’s what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to “gas.”
One could ask why only “gasoline” is called “petrol” elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn’t diesel also called “petrol?”
The problem with “gas” is, that it’s a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you’d use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
Yeah wait hold up I’m in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Edit: funnier - it shows as “gas” in Android Auto but “fuel” on maps when not in AA. Both know I’m an EV and show “charging stations” and not “gas stations”
It’s an abbreviation for “gasoline”
americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we’re not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we’re able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can’t drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked 😂
A French person takes the high speed train lmao
Oh, hon hon.
high speed train
lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.
I agree, our infrastructure is definitely fucked. But the US has ~10 million sq km of space to France’s ~552,000 sq km.
Europe has 10 sq km. Let’s not compare pommes to oranges.
Right, but they were the ones comparing a country to a state to begin with, so I compared a country to a country. If you want to compare continents… That’s a different story.
Its still over 8 hours by train and you have to deal with train people for over 8 hours.
train people
Normal human beings
You imply the French are normal people.
Crack heads are not normal
A TGV-ride is not a subway ride. Different comfort, Different prices, rather few crackheads on tgv.
Meh… You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.
Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that’s cute.
It’s not the same, you’re using metric hours. :)
Hahahahahaha, you made me spit my coffee, take my upvote
To be fair days are different: metric day is always 86400 seconds long while UTC day is 86399-86401 seconds long.
Get it right. It’s utus. Universal Time Units.
You can suck my utus
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!
Everything’s bigger in Texas, except WA that shit is huge…!
Initially I did Kununurra to Eucla which is approx 40hrs, but you can do it in 38 hrs if you go through the territory and SA. In the efforts of keeping things fair and saying in the same state such as the OP, Esperance seemed to prove the point. There’s defs longer commutes, but shy of triple seemed to be enough to prove a point.
PS love the username
Kununurra to Eucla is 40 hours, suprisingly it’s 3 hours quicker to go through northern territory and south Australia.
Cheers, thought I’d let them know who they’re arguing with.
If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.
I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)
You’ve lost me the USA is a country as well.?
In Aus, we have a state called Western Australia (we’re really imaginative with naming,) and its friggin huge…! (Pictured)
Approx 2.6 million km2 Or approx 1 million sq freedom units
Ahh, okay. I didn’t look at the picture very closely; I had no idea Australia had states! Nifty
Think its second only to a massive Russian state
Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.
All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it’s fair to say that’s the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
Does that account for times you have to stop to brawl with a moose?
If you’re brawling with a moose then you’re not a true Canadian. Every Canadian knows the moose wins every time.
This is true. A moose once bit my sister.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti
This is in one state.
That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It’s not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
The 51st state is part of the USA, that’s the whole point of this post. The Euros just can’t grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke…
Your geography lesson for today is (Google) mapping a route from Brest to Menton (France) and compare it to the route posted by OP.
Your history lesson for today is looking up when Canada became the 51st state…and realize I was being sarcastic.
But that’s crossing a country. Texas is a state. Going from San Diego to Portland, Maine is ~46 hours, and that’s probably not the longest route. There’s also Alaska and Hawaii (no direct roads to the contiguous 48 states), and Florida, that’s just a pretty long route off the top of my head.
Your geography lesson for today is to map 2 routes across the EU and compare them to your statement.
- Map the longest route across the continental EU.
- Connect the farthest points of France by way of Paris and compare it to the distance between Hawaii and New York. (Hint: Start is in South America or the Caribbean and finish is in the Pacific. )
Lol, I always forget how much random stuff France owns across the globe.
But here’s an overlay of the EU on the contiguous 48 US states from Reddit (doesn’t include Alaska, which is half as big as the whole US). That even gives the EU UK, which is no longer a member state. Alaska is really really big (like more than half the size of the lower 48 states).
As next lesson you’re going to learn about the failings of the Mercator projection - stay with me you’re going to love this!
While Alaska is pretty massive it is not as big as you think it is. Follow this link to the website that Redditor used to create the visual and drag Alaska onto the rest of the US: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYxNTY4MzI.ODIwNzY1OA*MTA0MzY2ODQ(MzUyODQ4MQ~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA!US-AK*MzU2MjMwMg.Mjg0OTg3OTk)Mw
Next drag Greenland onto Africa and vice versa, then both onto the US. Amazing isn’t it?
This is awesome!!
This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.
Good thing mine is short AND skinny. Also I shake my hips way worse than Shakira.
Are you from a small state like Liechtenstein ?
Vatican City. We measure travel times via water balloon launches.
There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.
