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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
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[–] Riyria@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I hate that people treat the US as if it doesn’t have a wide variety of accents. I can drive an hour in any direction and the people sound different than where I live. A lot of states have their own accents, and there are regional accents within them. I live in Illinois and people from No. IL and Central IL sound completely different from people in So. IL.

Accents get even more differentiated the further North or South you go. PNW sounds different than NE. Etc. The real difference is that a lot of the accents in the US aren’t based on indigenous languages spoken in that region (even though some are), they’re largely based on the group of Europeans that settled in the region.

Americans are very very good at code switching, which is why I think a lot of people think there are only one or two accents.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One thing that came as a culture shock for me is that I'm used to driving like 4 hours to see relatives. And this is usually several times a year. Then I heard from some Britons that they have rarely visit their relatives who are only like a hour drive away. Really messed me up the first time.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've heard similar things. Like, I've had work commutes that are an hour long before. (Not that that's healthy or ideal, but it's far from rare)

[–] ByteWizard@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And they say we should all just switch to electric bikes like in the Netherlands. I tried showing them a comparison of the states using a map but turns out "I am just being difficult"

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The "map" is not the problem, you just completely fucked up your city planning. Size of a country has zero impact on your daily commute.

[–] ByteWizard@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Size of a country has zero impact on your daily commute.

Lol Ok. Guess everyone has to crowd together in comparatively tiny little cities. All this usable land outside the cities is now uninhabitable. Genius.

Let me guess, we will own nothing and be happy, right? Oh and don't forget about eating bugs!! Yum yum!

Go slink back to hexbear.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you completely insane?

Your response has nothing to do with my comment.

[–] ByteWizard@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here I'll speak slowly

We have a big country. Big spaces mean longer commute. City design can't change physics of space-time.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not how cities work. That's just how America decided to approach that problem.

To spell it out for you: your commute is always in your local area. The size of your country is not relevant to your local area. What is relevant, is density. Density though, has nothing to do with the size of your country. Unfortunately, you are about twice as dense as Hong Kong.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your local area is trees now. Two and a half hours of trees. And a hideous tower thing painted to look like a marlboro cigarette, that people use as a landmark.

Not that I disagree the other commenter kind of...went off the deep end at the end, there. But if your suggestion is not that we take everyone in most of the middle states and shove 'em all together into what would probably come to 3-4 mid-sized American cities — so I guess a medium European one, an event that will absolutely never happen anyway — then your remaining solution to the city density/commute thing must be..to.....increase the density?

Is that what you guys are asking? The only problem with America is that there aren't enough Americans? Especially in Wisconsin?

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

I think you still completely misunderstand almost everything.

Long commutes are the result of bad city planning. Most of the long commutes are not in rural areas, but essentially from the outskirts of a city to the city center.

America decided to build huge suburbs devoid of any meaningful jobs. Suburbs are low density, so you need to build a lot of them to house the people, but that also means a lot of space is taken up by hardly any people. So the distance between your house and your job is simply longer.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the size of the country. You don't plan a city on a national scale. That happens locally.

This entire thread is another example of the "murica never bad, murica special" trope. North America isn't magically a completely different place from everywhere else.

[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago

I would make the point (not necessarily for an hour's drive) that the roads are often more tiring to drive on in the UK -- that is, they're not as flat, wide or straight as freeways often are, so require more concentration. Driving for an hour along Welsh country lanes doesn't feel the same as hitting the freeway for an hour. Just my two cents/tuppence