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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
pwhodges:
I was in the next station along the line when that happened. One of those scary what-if moments.
Oilman:
I was commuting to London through Kings X at the time. No, it wasn't a happy feeling for sure
Emperor Norton:
The difference in both size of the US, and the suckiness of our train/bus system. If I decided to get on a train to go from Atlanta, GA to Seattle, WA, it would take me 84 hours to get there.
In comparison, you could do a train/bus route from Lisbon, Portugal to St. Petersburg, Russia in 67.
Thrudd:
Late to the discussion and the topic seems to have switched tracks and sidings multiple times. Oh well.
(click to show/hide)As a Canadian from just outside The Big Smoke [aka Toronto] I have lived most of my life in a suburban environment.
I have been to various parts of the USA and Canada, as well as GBR [ Sturminster Marshall has 3 streets now? ] Central and Eastern Europe thanks to both work and an extended family.
Of them all, to me the USA is just plain weird though GBR on a different axis of weird.
I think it is either the undercurrent of, or just in your face, scarey I come across all too often when I was in the states.
Then again 6 of the top 10 safety challenged towns/cities were on my travel list.
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 28 Jan 2015, 18:12 ---The one thing that most people who are not from the USA do not get about the country is its sheer size. I think our Aussie friends are about the only ones who can comprehend the size - though not necessarily the landscape.
--- End quote ---
Yet again Americans forget about that country that is North South East and West of them, is also bigger and nearly everyone [except the nutters] likes since we are mostly harmless.
They may call us their hat but we know they are our pants. :wink:
As train systems go, having synchronzied clocks and having the trains travel on time [passenger and freight] makes a world of difference.
I was kind of dissapointed the last time I used British Rail, it is almost as if they were learning from Amtrak and doing their darnedest to ignore past history and how things just work in central Europe.
Trains in Eastern Europe in some locals make me feel like its 1902 all over again. :roll:
explicit:
Really, our cities just aren't built for public trans or walking. The only city I can think of that's not built on a grid is Boston, but that's mostly just because it was built up with no plan 100's of years ago.
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