Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it's possible also in France .
Edit: don't want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya'll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don't even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we're also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
May I present Kiruna to Trelleborg (1882 km) in Sweden?
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don't think a straight road exists here.
Ops post would be more effective by stating average speed.
You're comparing an entire country to the US' 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
As stated in other comments I don't care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
Since we are doing whole countries, you can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and still be in Russia:
I can't even zoom out enough.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat
Gotta watch out for that one speed camera
I was coming in with this cause it's straighter haha.
Then see you WA post.
I've done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I'm actually going
The world bows to Australia
And there's about a 40% chance to survive the trip.
True. Everyone there lives on the southeast side, though.
Well there's a European country where you need a week long train trip from one part of it to the other.
It's only 1hr longer than Tweed Heads to Cape York in QLD
So?
Just take the train...
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn't exist over there.....
We have trains, they'll just take 2-3x as long.
And I'm not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that'll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.
So yeah, it's an option, just a really crappy one.
Took the train from Toronto to NYC in 01. No thanks. Never again. Will drive if I can.
You just check mated yourself, mate
Even if it was Europe it would be a train from nowhere to nowhere.
Alas!
Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.
If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!
Best I can do is another McMansion.
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.
The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?
I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
People want to live next to people, and in specific areas. You can buy a nice house in bumfuck nowhere for cheap, or you can get an apartment in Austin for much more.
As a transplant Bumfuckian for well over a decade now, no you can't. It's only cheap if you're bringing your income or savings account from a non-bumfuck region.
Manifest fucking destiny/s
What makes you think lack of space is the issue??
Nothing. I didn't say it was, did I? I just said that the US has an awful lot of space on this planet that is home to all of us and still can't manage to house people.
Come to think of it, I said everything besides space was the issue, didn't I?
Are you suggesting that more people should live in Texas? I don’t think this is the humanitarian viewpoint that you seem to think it is lol.
Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel's airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.
And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
Those paycheck advance places were the monsters...
Best I can do is a lifted truck with Monster energy drink decals. Take it or leave it
Especially when you get to the desert biome of west Texas.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
Maybe not most of America but LA has some famously grueling traffic.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there's very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
I, a German, am also struggling with travel times/distances in Britain.
Me: (looks at map) I should be there in 1h tops.
Hours pass…
Me: I’m only half way there? WTF!
We have that in Texas too.
There are millions of cars in the Austin area, and at any given time all of them are on Mopac.
The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances
Oh it's a scenic ocean view instead of desert followed by dirty roads. I wonder which one should I pick.
I mean even discounting the view, I've of them is in Texas, yuck
Sweden is like a long penis that some Europeans can comprehend.
I'm conflicted is comparing a whole country travel distance to a state the same or I'm missing something? Genuinely curious. If we are talking about size of just a state do we Europeans have anything close to it?
Texas is one state.
My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that's not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
Why is fuel called gas
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it's because that's what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to "gas."
One could ask why only "gasoline" is called "petrol" elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn't diesel also called "petrol?"
Yeah wait hold up I'm in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Edit: funnier - it shows as "gas" in Android Auto but "fuel" on maps when not in AA. Both know I'm an EV and show "charging stations" and not "gas stations"
It's an abbreviation for "gasoline"
americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we're not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we're able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.
Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.
Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked 😂
A French person takes the high speed train lmao
Oh, hon hon.
high speed train
lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.
All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it's fair to say that's the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
This is in one state.
That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It's not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
The 51st state is part of the USA, that's the whole point of this post. The Euros just can't grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke....
I don't want to sound rude here but the meme is about not leaving the same state a whole Italy drive seems unfair.
You've shall selected the longer route of the available options. There OP is the shortest route being nearly a straight shot drive
the shortest route is still 14hr38 mins
The shortest route in this picture is still 14h though
There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.
Alaskans would like to have a word
I actually don't, how do you get to the other city? i assume there has to be some way.
Tectonic plate shifts
Air, sea and river.
Flying, probably.
Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:
As usual, California beats Texas
Is Arizona in California now?
Yeah, it was annexed yesterday.
Oh neat! A long state. Everybody knows girth is more important.
Dumbass
Texas mfs in tears rn, the one advantage they had (size) has also been usurped by the californiatards
I didn't realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it's big.
If it were a state in Australia, it would be our third-smallest.
That's more a statement on the USA's tiny states than anything specific against Texas though.
European here (Brit). I could drive for 13 hours along the M60 and still be on the M60. No problem comprehending that.
Sitting in traffic doesn't count, XD
Are you still European post-brexit? Also, your island isn't attached to the Eurasian continent
Yes. You're conflating Europe with the EU. You don't have to be on the Continent: Iceland is in Europe according to Wikipedia.
European here (Brit).
I detect a lie. You aren't in Europe anymore. Sorry that your stupid brethren voted you out, but you're just not. Hope you have a good day!
TIL if you're not part of EU then you're not in Europe.
I didn't realise that.
You heard him, lads. We can stick a big sail in the middle of the Peak District, and fuck off to sunnier climes!
The people on the Calais ferry are going to be surprised as fuck to set out to sea one day and see that we've finally gone.
You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.
You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.
Also, if you're in Texas and you have the will to drive 13 hours, I imagine you'd want to leave Texas.
Western Australia has entered the chat
Was gonna say, just checked Albany to Kununurra and it was 36hrs, 3365kms 😂
these North Americans sure are cute, aren't they?
Giggles in aussie
Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don't. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
I met some Brits on a flight back to Aus and they were a bit confused…
They thought they would be having breakfast at Bondi, bushwalk and picnic in the Blue Mountains then drive down to Melbourne for dinner and back to their hotel in Sydney.
That’s around 20 hours of driving not including stops.
They really didn’t comprehend the scale.
You can drive as long as you want, it's still aussie
i can drive for 13 hours and not leave my driveway (i dont know how to drive)
You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:
Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Well let me blow your mind by rotating my phone;)
(Also the ferry kinda cracks the comparison)
I saw a unicorn today.
To the the only phone user in existence that understands that landscape mode is a thing: I salute you.
Yeah, even from Blaine WA to Key West FL is 5772km/54 hours.
Now someone reverse it for me, what's the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?
Best bet might be the Balkans. Lots of countries between Hungary and Greece and not a huge distance, although it's hampered by a lack of fast roads.
Are you obeying the speed limits or Cannonball Running it?
Hadn't really thought about it, I guess speed limits? As long as the same system is used for the Texas and the Balkan drive.
I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I've been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.
You don't even need to go there. Just look at Washington State everyone acts like it's full but over half the goddamn state is fucking empty. It just happens to have a couple large congregations of population in a few particular spots
Bfd. I can drive 13 hours in Germany from the Dutch border and still be stuck in a fucking traffic jam around Frankfurt on highway 3 and never get to my skiing destination in Austria.
"In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
Europe is bigger than the US though
No. The US is easily from the furthest west of Europe to the furthest east of Turkey, plus some more. It has a lot less water too.
Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.
Texas highways have speed limits of up to 137kph (85mph), with most a little lower at 120kph (75mph). Autobahn "recommended" speed is 130kph (80mph).
While the Autobahn unrestricted areas have no speed limit, Texas drivers essentially always drive at least 10% over the speed limit and often reach speeds of 145kph (90mph) to 160kph (100mph).
That said, some rural highways are slower at like 88-105kph (55 - 65mph), but people still go much faster than that and only slow down if they think there are police or if they're approaching a small town on the highway where there will definitely be police to enforce the speed limit.
We also manage to get into like 10000x more wreckes than happen on the Autobahn, so that does sometimes slow things down.
I am curious how true this. All the Europeans on tiktok discussing America (it's a new trend) say we all drive faster than they are used to, and how our speed limits seem to be suggestions to us.
Europeans on average drive slow, but the comments are about Germans. We are special (in every sense of that word).
In northern Canada you could drive that long without even seeing another person lol
Sounds like heaven
In winter it probably looks like heaven too.
I was coming to comment that I've driven starting in Toronto for 24 hours and stil was in Ontario, KMs from Kenora.
23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
Came here for this. Ontario is massive.
And that doesn't even include the furthest communities or settlements. just fastest route to the Manitoba border.
There are a lot of communities in Northern Ontario that there are no direct roads to.
Trying to plot a bunch of routes out right now to get an idea and half the routes direct me to drive through the US to save time.
Windsor to Kenora is the longest I've plotted so far at 23 hours
Where is the joke about the famous woman who would just use her jet?
Sure, but I can drive for more than 11 hours and still be in Romania 👍
There is no escape.
America to America, 2 days.
how many state-border did you cross there?
Let's not talk driving hours, let us talk mileage. 13 hours on a Texas highway is going to cover much more land than trying to drive some 12th century side street in an Italian village at 5km/h.
It was crazy to realize on a recent road trip through the middle of the US, that half of my day's planned drive was the width of Germany.
Euros: Why didn't Americans go to other countries?
Americans: there's only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.
All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It's debatable if Louisianans speak English.
I know lots of euro bros are showing how long their country is, but I think the point is that Texas is a state, not country. When you compare those things it's quite impressive, however still not even the largest state in the world. Here are some others. A nice drive from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay will cost you 17 hours, or in Amazonas, Brazil, Manaus to Cruzeiro do Sul is 33 hours.
To the guy who annexed Arizona into California in order to beat Texas, shame.
Finland: 17 hours from Utsjoki to Helsinki.
Norway: 36 hours from Vardø to Lindsenes.
Sweden: idk why you'd go thereFor beer
Haha, that's probably one of the last things to go Sweden, unless you like that 2.1% ultralight barely beer passable tank washing water
Wtf I can't even name a single Swedish beer
I can't even comprehend this comment. Swedes leave the country for beer.
I miss the days when Google maps would tell you to get in a canoe for transoceanic routes.
I suspect some enterprising person actually tried it, thus depriving the rest of us our directional humor.
There really is one for everything
You can do that and still not get all the way through Nordland county (!) in Norway 🤷
half of that time is sitting in san antonio traffic.
In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.
Honestly have no idea how far 100 miles is. 100 km however is not too bad.
So 1h30 is long for americans? I don't get it.
The Euopean mind cannot comprehend having to drive 13 hours for what would take a train only 3
Fucking eat it Texas!
Wtf is a Woonsocket?
Its where you plug in your pawtucket
Some people in Daytona Beach can drive 500 miles without even leaving the stadium.
California is wild, it could pretty much be it's own country and it would be like the #5 wealthiest GDP. The government in the state really is like a small country's.
Then there's Alaska which people forget is almost 2x the size of Texas lmao.
Then there's Alaska, which people forget
It's because practically no one lives there.
careful, there's a speed trap about 30 mins south of San Jose
You can drive 23 hours across Ontario and still be in Ontario. And that's not even considering the northern parts.
23 hours is about as high as you are going to get while maintaining a (relatively) straight path. The north is not really accessible by road.
Edit: I take that back. I managed to get up to 27 hours driving from the Ambassador Bridge to Windigo Lake.
Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.
they say everything is bigger in Texas and that includes Texas
California can be "longer". Could probably get to 14 hours.
Smith River to San Ysidro:
Try tiny Norway with 6m people, you can drive 1 day 18 hours (almost 3000km)from the southwest to the northeast, shortest route.
Texas is bigger than Germany.
Once again for those who didn't make it to our last session:
The M25.
With a car crappy enough you can take much longer for a much shorter distance
A German and a Texan meet in a bar.
The Texan says: "When I get in my car and just drive once around my property, it takes all day."
The German says: "Yeah, I had a car like that once."
The US has so much space
Yet property is expensive and mostly owned by the wealthy🤦♂️
Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.
I once drove 6 hours to get out of Texas only to be stuck miles from the border for another 6 hours because three semi-trucks collided and caught fire...
We should turn the entire desert in Texas into a solar farm, and provide enough electricity for the entire world.
Solar and wind power is really big in Texas already. Maybe it could be done!
Fuck that. Texas has a terrible grid, and it isn't integrated with the surrounding states.
Put it in Iowa and Nebraska.
Okay. Let's do it!
I took the family on vacation to Texas a couple weeks ago. Flew into Houston, stayed there a few nights, then Austin for a few, then Dallas, for a couple then back to Houston for a few more and flew back.
Just mapping out the loop between the three cities is 9.5 hours and 623 miles. Add in slowdowns for poor visibility due to weather, stops to charge and use the restroom (with small kids), it was easily 12 hours, at least, of total road time.
Yeah, well, I can drive 1 hour and cross 3 borders. And I won't have to go through an immigration/customs checkpoint at any of these borders.
Let's just say that when crossing the Pyrenees you don't want to stray from the main north-south(ish) roads...
The American mind can't just comprehend that there's world besides the USA. Australia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland as many pointed out all have longer routes. Don't let me get started on Russia or we might end up with a new race between the US and Russia trying to come with the longest road.
Another thing the American mind can't just comprehend (about Europe) is how someone can drive across multiple countries without ever stopping on checkpoints/border controls/customs and most of time without even exiting/changing highways.
The American mind can’t just comprehend what it is to send money to a friend in another EU country with just a single number. No 3rd party services, no routing and account numbers, no fees, no banking shenanigans. Simply login into your European bank, type the value and the IBAN and the transfer is done. :)
Russia: am I a joke to you?
How about Sweden?
laughing cries in Brazilian
My european mind doesn't give a shit about the us , it doesn't even think of it .
On the other hand, when you start from Texline (which I suppose is the starting point of that 13 hour journey) in the northeast of the state, you could easily escape Texas within minutes.
On the other hand, in Europe you can get through a number of countries in thirteen hours just because we have a working road system.
The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world. Say what you want about our lack of public transportation, but we're a country built for cars. Vroom, vroom, motherfucker.
IMO the USA doesn't have that much "space" it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.
I mean, you have tons of space there. You spent much time in more densely populated places? I live in China and there are 5 to 6 x more people here for the same size land area as the US. There is so much less free space. Very, very much less!
If the space is inhabited by nature or agriculture then it isn't "free space". Free space is empty paved lots, barren brine pits, etc.
There's a lot of open space in the middle of the US
It seems the European mind is not that bright if you think a country's distance is equivalent to a state.
