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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pff in Australia I can travel over 2000km in a straight line and never leave my state, and it's not even the biggest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now we need somebody from Siberia to tell us how they can drive for 5000km and never leave their federal subject (I had to look that up, it's what the different regions of Russia are called)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm not Siberian, but from what I've gathered from the talks of people who lived there, is that people in far east Russia have a weird sense of time and distance. You might be in in the middle of fuck nowhere with the closest living person being like a 100km away from you, but when you call them with some any dumb questions like "Hey do you happen to have a bottle opener?" they respond with "Sure, I'll be there shortly" and then they do indeed arrive... in 4 hours. It's as if they don't have places to be, and it's totally okay for them to spend an entire day driving to a shop or to friend to lend them a screwdriver. It's especially baffling to people who lived their entire lives within ~40km Moscow's ring road and they hear stuff like "Minsk? Sure, that's like a hand's reach away - only 720 kilometers. I'll drop by on the weekend".