• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.worldM
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    24 days ago

    Europeans often don’t understand the scale of the US. The EU is a better comparison than any single European country. The Ukrainian front lines are as close to Paris as Los Angeles is to New York. You have to drive for hours to get across most states, even on the east coast. You can read 784 miles till your destination on GPS, and not even be traveling out of state.

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        23 days ago

        Australia has a similar geographic scale, but not in terms of population. It’s similar to Canada in that respect, with most of it being nearly uninhabitable by humans. The US is far more hospitable by comparison.

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      24 days ago

      and theres like nothing between most cities as well, vast stretches of empty land, where as in the eu cities are much closer and much more dense. in lots of parts of the usa interstate system you can travel for a hundred miles before you reach any civilization at all. and its probably just some gas station town thats only really there to be a rest stop/tourist trap.