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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
bicostp:
Penelope must be a transplanted Rhode Islander because I've never heard anyone in MA say 20 minutes is too far to travel. :psyduck: (She's even got a car for frig's sakes.)
A trip from Northampton to Amherst is less than 10 miles up route 9. Seriously I live 30 miles from work (45 minutes) and half the people there come from New Hampshire. 9 miles is nothing. :\
jwhouk:
That mindset was frequent by some of my friends back in my hometown, after I moved. To them, I live in the part of the state known as "drive-by" country.
To most who live along the Lake Michigan shoreline (Milwaukee, mostly), any cities or locales between Milwaukee and Madison, or Milwaukee and Green Bay, are considered places you "drive by" on I-94 or I-43 or US 41 - and usually at 65+ MPH.
Two cities can look to be relatively close on a map, but can be worlds apart in the mindset of those who live there.
Tergon:
Considering that Penelope is the only current CoD employee to have been seen driving a car (Dora supposedly has one but never drives it), I can only assume that the "twenty minutes" describer is either on foot or using public transport. That's... nothing.
I grew up going to a school that was 45 minutes away by bus, and about half an hour by car. And that's on the open road, not puttering around at city speed limits. You want perspective about distances, come to Australia. Down here if a journey takes less than two hours it's considered to be a short trip.
bicostp:
According to Google Maps, a trip between the two town centers is 8.7 miles (14 kilometers), about 20 minutes by car, and mostly on a divided multi-lane state highway.
Near Lurker:
*snrk*
Divided multi-lane state highway. Right.
Someone's never been to New England, or at least not outside the Boston area.
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