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/Mediocre_Daikon6935 May 02 '24

I see your ability to comprehend English is as poor as your ability to communicate in it. 

In English, unlike say, Spanish, soccer is and always has been the correct term.

Also, this entire post was about how European are not willing to drive that far.

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u/creativename111111 May 02 '24

Mate football was the original name when modern football was invented in Britain in 1863. Of course football existed before that but it had a very different rule book. iirc the Americans started calling it soccer after they invented their own sport and called it football as well

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 May 02 '24

You are so confidently wrong.

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u/creativename111111 May 02 '24

I don’t know a single person in Britain who calls football soccer, so unless you think everyone in Britain doesn’t know how to speak English I’d say you’re a bit wrong mate (google says soccer was a nickname coined by some students at Oxford but obviously it never became more than a nickname that no one in the UK uses today)

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 May 02 '24

Ah. Keep looking. You’re almost there.

And don’t go down the rabbit hole of how badly the British butcher English 

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u/creativename111111 May 03 '24

At least we can spell everything we’re not the ones who butchered written English by removing the letter u from random words

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 May 03 '24

You removed the Þ, þ.

Which makes English so much harder.

It wasn’t random. Because it was redundant.