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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Zebediah:
There's an old British (I think) joke that goes "America is a place where a hundred miles is a short distance and a hundred years is a long time." However, New England in general and Massachusetts in particular is closer to the European than American view of distance - a hundred miles in New England IS a long distance. Eastern Massachusetts is densely populated enough that public transit become not only efficient, but essential; we simply don't have enough roads to hold all of our cars if everybody drove everywhere the way they do in much of the rest of the US.
Oilman:
"A few hundred miles" in UK means "fall into the sea" in most cases.
I know some parts of the US and Australia, and I find them both recognisable in some ways, for obvious historical reasons. US Constitution was written by men who were essentially British, after all; the U.S. is 18th century England writ large, in some ways.
It's why the EU is such a toxic issue in Britush politics; I can't understand most of what goes on in France, and I speak French quite fluently. Most European legal and political systems are pretty much incompatible with ours, and so forth. I work in a genuinely international environment and I very rarely go to Europe, except to change flights at Schiphol, and I find it very difficult wirking with Europeans for a range of reasons; it's easier to be in somewhere where I am a foreigner, full stop.
Is it cold in here?:
The US is large enough that Marten couldn't afford to visit his mother. (Or at least that was a convenient excuse).
One way to get a feel for how big it really is is to ride a train. Amtrak through Montana, 79 mph with no restaurant stops, takes almost 12 hours.
QC-land is an anomaly in US terms, in that everybody's home, work, and hangouts are all inside walking distance.
tragic_pizza:
I live in Birmingham, Alabama.
Pity me.
Thrillho:
It doesn't feel like it's from another planet, but then I'm whatever the American equivalent of an Anglophile would be and there are some minor parts that go flying over my head. American pop culture has been ingrained into my very DNA at this point so I get more than most.
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