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How far away from family do you live? (discuss.online)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The US tends to be a lot more spread out than Europe and the rest of the world. It seems like we're also more likely to move long distances for jobs and the like.

I'm pretty close to most family, 10 to 40 minute drives for everyone that doesn't live out of state

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[โ€“] 9point6 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

About 3h30 by train (2 changes), roughly 350km

In the UK

Edit: lol, just seen the community name. Well here's an unsolicited outsider perspective

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's good you clarified the UK. 3h30 on a train in the US gets you to about the next town over ๐Ÿ˜ข

It's not quite that bad, but I've really wanted to take Amtrak cross country, which should in theory be easy to do because of all our open land. And yet, it would take like a week or something ridiculous like that.

[โ€“] 9point6 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If I lived in mainland Europe the journey would probably be a bit quicker for a journey of similar distance, everything seems to go via London in this country and we've got some creaking infrastructure. However I've heard the trains in the US are particularly under funded, so this might be a tiny violin situation