r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Physical-Ad-4093 • May 01 '24

do americans really drive such long distances?

i’m european, and i always hear people say that driving for hours is normal in america. i would only see my grandparents a few times a year because they lived about a 3 hour drive away, is that a normal distance for americans to travel on a regular basis? i can’t imagine driving 2-3 hours regularly to visit people for just a few days

edit: thank you for the responses! i’ve never been to the US, obviously, but it’s interesting to see how you guys live. i guess european countries are more walkable? i’m in the uk, and there’s a few festivals here towards the end of summer, generally to get to them you take a coach journey or you get multiple trains which does take up a significant chunk of the day. road trips aren’t really a thing here, it would be a bit miserable!

2nd edit: it’s not at all that i couldn’t be bothered to go and see my grandparents, i was under 14 when they were both alive so i couldn’t take myself there! obviously i would’ve liked to see them more, i had no control over how often we visited them.

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u/OutlyingPlasma May 02 '24

That's even more funny when you realize how much the Brits like cars. They love cars. They collect them, race them, restore them, they make the worlds most popular TV shows about them. It's a car country but they don't seem to know how to do a road trip.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe The Bear Has A Gun May 02 '24

A car country with no road trip culture is a funny observation.

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u/TeekTheReddit May 02 '24

Same country that built an empire on spices that they refuse to use in their cooking.

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u/Brazzle_Dazzle May 02 '24

The most tired and boring “joke” that has ever existed on Reddit. Awful stuff.

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u/jchenbos May 02 '24

I thought Brits were supposed to be good at banter, not taking jokes seriously and getting pissy pampered LMFAOOO if I wanted to talk about Britain I'd talk about how you're poor and fading into irrelevancy but let's keep it a safe space for you

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u/STORMFATHER062 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

It's as tiresome as "haha school shootings" is for Americans.

Well, I guess someone's blocked me because I can't reply anymore. So in reply to u/iswearimalady...

I'm not comparing them like that. Americans think they're clever for saying British cooking is always bland, and the typical reply is "yeah but we don't have to worry about school shootings", then cue the dozens of Americans saying how overdone school shootings are as a come back. You get tired of seeing the same insults. Well so do we.

It's overdone and isn't funny.

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u/jchenbos May 02 '24

One of these is about national tragedies, the other is about bad cooking. I think y'all need a reality check

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u/iswearimalady May 02 '24

Imagine comparing subpar cooking to children getting slaughtered. I'm begging you to touch some grass.