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To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I've heard the legends of having to drive to literally everywhere (e.g. drive thru banks), but I have no clue how far apart things are.

I live in suburban London where you can get to a big supermarket in 10 minutes of walking, a train station in 20 minutes and convenience stores are everywhere. You can get anywhere with bus and train in a few hours.

Can someone help a clueless British lemmyposter know how far things are in the US?

EDIT

Here are my walking distances:

To the nearest convenience store: 250m
To the nearest chain supermarket: 350m
To the bus stop: 310m
To the nearest park: 400m
To the nearest big supermarket: 1.3km
To the nearest library: 1.2km
To the nearest train station: 1km

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 16km

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[–] proudblond 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Salem to Sacramento shouldn’t take that long unless there is gnarly traffic. As a kid, my family regularly did San Jose to Seattle in 16 hours.

[–] semperverus 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Salem's not at the northern border. You still have the distance of portland to go, or at least driving around it, and even that can take a while.

From border to border, Organic Maps estimates 5 hours and 20 minutes, which does not include traffic.

I did run the calculation from salem to sacramento though, and i was off by about double. Its 16 hours to southern california (ive done the drive), but to sacramento, its only 8. I own that mistake, I don't travel to california much and mistook the trip I took for the distance i was thinking about.

[–] proudblond 1 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, that makes sense.