Yeah, and go 8 GODDAMN hours without finding a radio station! You can do the same thing in California going North/South but at least there you are hitting cities along the way. In Texas, you veer off into the abyss. I've driven all over this country and the worst drive I've ever done was from El Paso to Laredo. The stretch between El Paso and San Antonio I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Thank god you guys have decent speed limits at least!
American here -- when I lived in England, some friends went to the U.S. and thought they could drive from Los Angeles to Chicago in a few hours. It took them three days of 12 hour days driving. When they came back to to England they overylaid a map of their driving miles in the US with a map of Europe -- they found it would be like driving a car from Leeds to somewhere in Syria.
And a Californian here. Grew up in LA. Which I believe is the largest city by area in the lower 48. Alaska doesn't count and Jackson cheated! Anyways, now living in San Bernardino County 100 miles east. Ridiculously huge. Fortunately we live in a small mountain city at 6700'. No big deal. I like the guy reporting....he's spot on. Especially about the Inland Empire. Yikes. And yeah, the Beasley mum. We'd call her a 'sweetheart'.
I lived in student housing that was always half-filled with international students. The number of times I had to burst people's bubble at breakfast and tell them no, you can't hop in the car and have lunch and do some shopping in X city and be back for dinner was mind-boggling. You can't even leave the state of Texas as a day trip.
New Jersey is ~166x bigger than Jersey. Jersey is approximately 116 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 16,461% larger than Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of Jersey is ~102,146 people (8.7 million more people live in New Jersey). -some random website
Hmm, it is actually 188.89 times the size of the Bailiwick of Jersey. New Jersey is actually 22,591.38 sq. km. while Jersey is 119.6 sq. km. The estimated population of New Jersey in 2021 9.267 million people [according to the US Census Bureau,] while Jersey's population was 103,267 in 2021 according to the government of Jersey.
I know they mentioned it in their reaction but you really should have mentioned to them that Jersey is a city while New Jersey is a STATE. It many cities inside its borders. The comparison is really not fair at all.
@@jamescurfman3284 What are you talking about? The people in the video are referring to the Bailiwick of Jersey which is a quasi-country [British Crown Dependency so kind of, kind of not a country,] where they live. It also has multiple cities within it. No one here, was referring to Jersey City, NJ.
I lived in Texas (austin) for a year and they kept telling me they had lakes (Lake travis, Lake Austin and Lady bird lake) I said if you can stand on 1 bank and see the other they are ponds. They asked where I was from and I said Ohio.
I grew up near San Diego. The first time I drove though Stockton California and saw freighters and small container ships there it was a bit of a shock. I hadn't really thought about the Port of Stockton there in the Central Valley.
In fact the reason they are not considered inland seas is because they are not salt water. Being fresh water boats with similar hull design will draft deeper in the great lakes than on the Atlantic Ocean
Back in ‘93 my cousins came to visit us in the US from The Netherlands. They planned to drive from Las Vegas to New York. They thought they could do it like a European backpacking trip. When we showed them the map, they almost fainted!😂
Visited a bunch of countries in Europe one summer (Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, then England) and it was the equivalent of going state to state. Like I’m from Philly And I can be in NJ within minutes but the shore is like an hour. NYC is 2.5 hrs. Delaware and Maryland not far away either. Less than 45 mins.
A friend from the American state of Colorado once told me she was going to be in San Jose, California, and asked how far was that from where I lived in Los Angeles? I asked honestly, “by car or by plane?” She was stunned that California was that large. So even Americans can be surprised by how big America is! (It would have been about an hour by plane, or a six hour drive, and the two cities were not even at the extreme ends of the state.
In fact San Francisco is just about the center of the coast There is a large and very sparsely populated half the state between there and the Oregon state line.
I remember a buddy of mine from japan came to my wedding in idaho. We became friends at college in Illinois. He wanted to go see the school. I told him it was litterally 24 hours drive away. He couldnt believe it
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood it is I was just giving an example of a single city in Texas to explain why it couldn’t be a combined 9.4 million between the 2 states!
Interestingly, I was talking to a colleague who resides on the East coast (I live on the West coast) and had to explain how vast California was. I found out that many in the East don’t realize that there’s a great distance between Northern California and Southern California and how different we are in culture and climate. I explained that California was similar to the distance of driving from the northern tip of Florida to New York City. He was in shock. 😂
You are so right! My friend who is originally from New Jersey arrived in Los Angeles and thought we could just do a drive to San Francisco. I simply didn't have the strength to drive 7 hours more as I'd just driven 87 miles from the opposite direction and we still needed to get back. I had suggested more than once that she arrive in Palm Springs or Ontario instead of Los Angeles - no worries, she didn't realize the distance.
I’ve driven from South Jersey (Philly Metro area) to Orlando and back a couple of times and flown to Orlando a couple of times. It basically a “2 or 2” situation - Two days in a car or two hours in an airplane. The drive isn’t that bad until get south of Jacksonville. Then you get onto I-4, which is the biggest Charlie Foxtrot of a highway you’ll ever be stuck on.
American here- 20 years ago, I drove from Los Angeles-Toronto, Canada and back after 1.5 years. In the travel back home to L.A. we took the southern route…it felt like I was driving across Texas for a century 😂 Loved your video- made me think about how massive we are as a country. Also, we really do call it the Inland Empire and I never really thought about it till this video. Sounds like a galactic force in Star Wars 😂
My family spent two weeks in London several years ago and left feeling like we had barely scratched the surface with regard to all the wonders there. When we left London in the morning on the first day of our third week, we made a stop at Oxford, Blenheim Palace and landed in Stratford where we stayed overnight at the Royal Shakespeare Hotel, which, I'm told, was extensively renovated about 100 years before my country was born. There wasn't a right angle in the place, and it was absolutely charming. The next day, we went on to York with a few stops in between. While we didn't cover a lot of miles, we covered two thousand years of history (the Romans did leave their mark there, didn't they?) and it was amazing! The U.S. certainly has its natural beauty. The trouble is, getting from scenic place to scenic place requires a lot of time. That's fine if the journey - seeing the sights in between the scenic places - is really your objective, but folks visiting from Europe often want to see many of the highlights in a brief visit and that's just not possible.
"but folks visiting from Europe often want to see many of the highlights in a brief visit and that's just not possible." It is if you're willing to hop on plane between spots. Or, you can see a lot in a week or two on a driving trip. A north-south loop through California from LA to SF and back is doable. Or all of Utah's national parks (and maybe throw in the Grand Canyon and Vegas on the same trip). The Northeast from DC through NY to Maine is possible. Or Chicago and the Great Lakes. Or the Pacific Northwest including Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and the wonderful national parks in that area.
I am 56 years old and all my childhood my family traveled every summer on vacations all over the U. S. As and adult I have traveled fairly extensively on my own and I still have yet to step foot in 20 states. America is freaking massive
How many European countries have you been to? Im an american and have been to most of the 48 continental states but have only been to 2 countries (US and Mexico)
Years ago when I was visiting Japan someone asked how often I visited NYC from my one in Philadelphia. I had to explain 1) Philadelphia is a big city of over 1M. 2) NYC is two hours away so we wouldn't go for ordinary outings like catching a movie or going to dinner. 😂. They had no concept of the distance between well known cities ie LA and San Fran, Atlanta and Orlando, Chicago and NYC.
You can Drive to Edinborough from London in an afternoon. Have you ever driven for nine hours straight without being in another state? Brisbane to Cairns, both in Queensland, is 2 days, and Cooktown and the cape are still north of there. It takes around 4 days to go from cairns to Melbourne. To go from Melbourne to Perth, is more like 5 or 6 days. Our continent is a similar size to the US.
Yes Texas you can easily drive for 14 hours to leave the state. It would take several several days to drive across Alaska but so many areas are so remote you can only get to them via flight. The highway system doesn’t go to many places its too isolated/rugged etc etc
@@Jaster832that’s really not an easy thing to do. Even if you eat and sleep (while switching drivers out) in the car just stopping for gas bathroom/grab fast food or something really really quick from a gas station that is like a 44 hour trip.
@@lijohnyoutube101 You can't drive across Alaska, as you just pointed out. If you start in Texarkana and you are leaving via El Paso and you drive the speed limit (no one does) you can't get out of the state in 14 hours.
My family once drove from Nashville, Tennessee to Anaheim, California in just 34 hours. That trip is 2,000 miles long! And I did all of the driving. We left on a Monday right after breakfast and arrived on Tuesday for dinner.
To put Texas to scale, we have an airport known as KDFW in aviation speak or Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and it alone is larger than the whole state of Rhode Island… and it’s also currently being expanded to have a 6th terminal with another 26 gates.
In high school I had a German exchange sister who lived with us in Oregon for a year. At Christmas we visited my Uncle in southern California. Dad took a globe and a string, measure from our house to my uncle's general area, then measured from her town in Germany, the string ended up in the middle of the Sahara.
Back in the day I had a 3 day weekend so I decided to visit New England. I started in Delaware. I managed to visit (or at least drive through) each of those states in 3 days. I stopped in New York City for a while. I buzzed through Connecticut and Rhode Island. I visited Boston and stayed the night. Then I went into Maine as far as Augusta, bought a souvenir and got back on the road. I came back down the interstate and went into New Hampshire. I mainly buzzed through there. I spent the night in Montpelier Vermont. Then I crossed Lake Champlain on a ferry and came back down through New York state. Nice little trip with some decent time for sightseeing. Probably around 500 miles total.
Interestingly, New Jersey is one of the smallest US states by area (47th out of 50 in total area, 46th out of 50 by land area) but is over 150 times the size of "Old" Jersey. To put its size in UK terms, it's a tiny bit larger than Wales. Another interesting New Jersey fact is that it's the most densely populated US state. It has the 11th largest population of any US state (9,288,994 as of the last census). Despite this, it has a fairly large area of parks and wild areas such as the Pine Barrens, and is nicknamed "The Garden State".
You might be surprised by the topography of some of those states. Montana has its share of the Rocky Mountains, but the mountains make up only a rather small portion of the state. I live in Vegas currently, I moved from Wyoming. You would think I live in a desert. But did you know I'm surrounded by mountains that are also part of that desert?
My husbands nephew is half Philipino, and he was living in NY city at the time, and they asked him if he could drive down to Mississippi to get something for them. They did not understand the size of this place for sure. That would be a 2 day (plus) drive, if things were going well. He was laughing about it. Needless to say, he did not drive to Mississippi.
6:27 Come to Montana for mountains! Montana is mountain in Spanish. I live near 5 wilderness areas in western Montana ...grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, moose, elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, mountain goats, pronghorn antelope, wolf, bob cats, lynx, eagles, are a few of the animals I've seen this year hiking in these wilderness areas. It's beautiful, dangerous and breath taking out here. Don't forget your fishing pole either, world class trout fishing all around too.
There's a rural part of New Jersey that sits roughly in the center which they call, "The Pine Barrens." I can assure you that the entire island of Jersey could be set down in the Pine Barrens and few people outside of the area would notice.
I have been across the US five times, once from precise coast to coast. Texas, where I now live, is a two day drive. The last trip passing through Texas I was pinned down on the Panhandle by a blizzard. The drive across America, if done reasonably with 8-10 hr days takes 7-8 days. I have also driven from Canada to southern Florida. But that's for another day.
Time to do the diagonal, from Washington state to Florida!! That's a fun one - 5 12+ hour days to get from one to the other. Did it 4 times in 3 years...makes me want to move to the middle of the country!!
" I used to think 100 miles was a long way" Bro, my gf lives a little over a hundred miles from me. About an hour 1/2. I make the drive like every weekend just about. It's like nothing to me.
Wyoming and Montana are ranching cultures. There's not a lot of water to tap into in Wyoming either. The Winters are brutal. But those states are absolutely beautiful. And if I could live there I would. But Texas is my heart. So I feel like I'd be betraying my own beautiful state. I've lived for a while in the Colorado Rockies. Also would love to live there again. The forests and mountains are awesome eye candy. To stand on the back porch and seeing hundreds of miles of snow capped mountains was a blessing. But the Texas hill country is beautiful. And it's homegrown people are simply the best. You won't meet nicer people anywhere. Great video today. Glad Mum's with you today. Bet she's really spoiling Archie. It's what us grandmother's are for. ❤ from Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
I lived in Laramie, Wyoming for three years. Wyoming has mountains and ranches, basically. Laramie was so windy with very little humidity that I would wash the sheets and pillowcases from one bed, hang the sheets, then the pillowcases, and the first sheet hung was already dry! But the mountains are magnificent-the Rockies and the Grand Tetons make one feel very small and insignificant!
A couple of videos you guys might enjoy are the busiest airports in the US and busiest airports in the world. The one airport that I am fairly certain will be at the top, for passenger traffic, is Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the area I grew up. That airport never sleeps. The number of passenger flights that go through that airport a day is insane.
Years ago a friend from Scotland called and said “I’ll be in New York for a couple of days. Do you want to meet up for a day?” He was wowed when he found out it would take 5 to 6 days to even drive to California where I and some other Gaels lived. The US is huge and mostly just farmland between the two coasts.
You lost the upvote when you said it is mostly farmland between the coasts. Your leftist brainwashing is showing. That has been a lie said by them for 30 years as a way to devalue the states they can't ever get votes in. It is also why the term flyover state exists. It is an insult. Those states have so much in them, they are more valuable than the coastal states. I have worked all over the country, I like being away from the coasts.
I drive from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Barstow, California, it takes me three days. Most of the time is spent just getting through Texas.You do not want to do this trip in the summer unless you have AC in your car. It's hot and humid ,until you hit El Paso then it just plain hot. You could bake cookies on you dash as you go down the interstate. Once you turn North at Palm Springs headed for the high desert it gets even hotter. The trip to upstate New York from Lake Charles is bit better because your driving through states with a Lot of trees. Still hot but not as bad, but still takes two to three days depending on how much you stop. I have been wanting to drive the highway 95 from Maine to the Florida keys. I just think it would be so much fun.
Wow that’s about a 24 hour drive! I don’t even like the 11 hour drive from Jacksonville, FL, to Lake Charles. There’s a tunnel at least, so that’s kind of fun.
I work in the National Parks (LOVE Yellowstone!) and drive cross country several times a year. It can easily take a week of 8-hour days to get from one coast to the other.
I went to Spokane, Washington and I was shocked that in such a big city it takes 20 minutes to get to everything unless you are in the same parking lot and that doesn't include Spokane Valley.
I had a friend from the UK who had a business meeting in Albany, NY and wanted to visit me in NYC. She said she'd visit me then take "a cab" to Albany! 😂😂😂😂
I packed up and moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Dallas, Texas several years back. It was a 25 hour drive, stopping only for food, restrooms, and a one-hour nap at around 4 am. Generally speaking, I made really good time, for a 1500+ mile drive. That's only halfway across the country.
Excellent and fun video. Thanks! I (from US) once had a friend from Australia who was coming to visit Houston in Texas and also flying to Florida. She couldn't understand why I couldn't just meet up with her in each place. I told her it's a 2 day drive for me to get to each one, and about a 2 day drive between Tx and Fla. And I don't even live up near Canada. She had no idea how big it all is.
I live in New Jersey! And we call it Jersey. Usually north and south Jersey. North Jersey is near New York and South Jersey is near Philadelphia and Delaware. They have very different culture and accents. My Jersey is one of the smaller states. And we break up into about five regions and people are reluctant to drive from one part to another.
To get a perspective, in Wyoming where I live we have two school districts in Laramie county and one of those districts is larger then Rhode Island. And yes, there are more cows then people. There are around 500,000 people and over one million cows.
Wyoming is high, cold and dry. So it's got plenty of cattle ranches, but not agriculture...as in growing crops. Wyoming is also rather flat. In fact, it's the only state where you cross the "Continental Divide" (top of the Rocky Mountains) twice going in one direction. It is also very windy. The joke is that you could put a piece of paper against one side of the house and the wind would keep it there for 6 months. Then you could simply move it to the other side of the house for the next 6 months. Major attractions are Yellowstone (in the upper western corner) and the Grand Tetons down the west side (after you cross the flat crown of Rockies in the middle).
You talked about coming to America and I know that you asked about California, Florida, and Texas. But August is very hot in those states. If you went to New England, you could see a diversity of landscapes, plus, go to Boston and NYC - having so many of the smallest states makes New England one of the good options. New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont all are unique and beautiful and you can't go wrong with Boston and NYC as your city representations. Chicago and those surrounding states are also nice. I lived in California for 6 years and if I could bring you back in time to when I lived there, I would say California for sure. San Diego, Pacific Coast Highway, Yosemite, etc are all gorgeous. But the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles have really messed up those areas. Lots of homeless and I think you might be disappointed. But their national parks are still amazing.
@@BillieOtero-qe1jq I am not sure what NYC is like right now. But they had gotten rid of crime for several years. I live in a nearby state and would take the train in and have a fabulous time. I haven't been since COVID. I know that they lost a lot of the crowds.
I was raised near San Diego California, I now live about an hour north of San Francisco. Sunset time here is almost an hour later than in San Diego. That is how much of a bend California has. Also, Reno Nevada is West of Los Angeles. Not by much, but a little. Three hour drive somewhere, say for lunch? Nothing but a pleasant day trip. Be back in plenty of time to fix dinner.
When your man talks about making the "commute" from Chicago to Indianapolis, if he's driving rather than taking a commuter flight or a train, that commute can take between 3 and 4 hours one way. That's not a commute as such, but a trip. Some people do it more often than others, but an hour is a typical long, daily commute. 3 or 4 hours one way is the usual weekly trip, if taken for work.
After three or more times (depending on how many drivers) you've spent 1-2 days going north-to-south, or 3-4 days going coast-to-coast across the USA, you get used to it.
When lived in England years ago, my English neighbors were astonished that my wife and I would drive 4 - 5 hours to holiday somewhere in the UK for a weekend.
I am an American living in Arizona (larger than the UK I think). I live in Tucson (1 million people metropolitan area), 120 miles from Phoenix (about 5 million). People routinely drive that 120 miles, some every day. My daughter lives there and drives to Tucson to visit me. It takes only 1 hr. 20 minutes to drive the Interstate ("motorway") between these cities. I actually envy you all living in such a compact country as the UK. Everything is so close. (I visited there 55 years ago!).
A West Virginia hillbilly and Texan were talking and the Texan, bragging about how big his homestead was, said, “ I can drive my truck all day long and still not reach the end of my driveway.” To which the hillbilly said, “ I had a truck like that once.”
Our family often pics a location within 2 hours' drive once a month and visit it and have a scoop of ice cream or sometimes just a picnic if the weather is nice. Although with the cost of gas and food on the rise....
When I was in the military, I was stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso Tx. Which was as far west Texas as you could go. It might as well be Mexico! When I got out and made the grueling drive back to Connecticut, which took several days. It took almost 13 hours (and most of the highways are 70 or 80 mph) just to go from the west side of Texas through to the east side of Texas! I would love it if I never had to make that drive again!! Haha
From Jacksonville, FL. It is over an hour from end to end (especially with Navy traffic). I was raised under NAS JAX flight path, hey... free Blue Angel's airshow.
You were pretty much right about Wyoming. It's where Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons and many other protected lands are. There are some plains but it's not a lot farmland. There would more likely be a ranch. It's a little cold for farming. I guess that's why it's not highly populated.
Fun fact here in Maine we have more Coast line / general ocean line of 3,478 miles compared to Californias 840 miles coast line, and all of our City’s in Maine are on the coast do to our high value of sea food and ship building and cargo docks while our Towns are are more in land and based around major rivers for agriculture and moving resources back in the day like sending logging trees down the river, Maine remains as Vacation land of the US as we get many tourist through out all of our seasons, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring do to our state having many attractions and activity during all seasons like driving through the mountains during Fall or Snowboarding / skiing and snowmobiling during the winter, and the locals here are nice and are welcoming especially when they try our top of the line Maine lobster and seafood like our famous Lobster Rolls.
" New Jersey is ranked 47th of the fifty states that comprise the United States of America in terms of area. The total area of the state is 8,729 square miles (22,610 km )" "Jersey is an island measuring 46.2 square miles (119.6 km ) (or 66,436 vergées), including reclaimed land and intertidal zone."
my favorite comparison is the 2 hour drive comparison: In Europe, you drive 2 hours and your in another country; in America you drive 2 hours and your in the next state; in Texas you drive 2 hours and your in the next city; and in Australia you drive 2 hours and your 2 hours away from the city you left
I've personally driven from California to Wisconsin more times than I can remember. That's approximately 2100 miles one way. 2 1/2 years ago we moved from southern California to southern Idaho, approximately 800 miles and thought nothing of it to do the entire drive in one day. We regularly get in the car and do a 250-350 mile drive just for pleasure.
I’ve traveled through Wyoming and much of it is empty of signs of human inhabitants aside from the road my friend and I drove on and some fences. No houses, no electrical towers, nothing. We even passed signs warning that people to get gas because the next gas station was 50 miles down the road.
I’ll throw this small random story for context of how us Americans think. I live in Seattle and flew out to Boston with my family. We planned to go straight from the airport to Kennebunkport Maine and I had resolved myself to hours of driving. I was pleasantly surprised to find out is was gonna be about 2 hrs of driving. As someone who lives in Seattle I drive 2 hours to work as someone in the trades more than a few months out of the year. Seattle to Anacortes or Leavenworth is a trek when you’re leaving with traffic, both 2hrs easy and Leavenworth is maybe 3hrs. Worked with Framers who lived in Chehalis and did work in Seattle and that blew my mind. Thats close to 3.5hrs in traffic every day, 5 days a week. Crazy.
I remember once having to explain to a friend of mine in Yorkshire why I couldn’t “pop-I’ll and visit a mutual friend who lived in New Jersey for a weekend trip since I live in NC which is only half close to the middle of the east coast. She was like, it might take a couple hours but if you stay the whole weekend it would be worth it. Then I had to explain that it was actually a 10 hour drive one way, sometimes more depending on how you hit the traffic in the different cities along I95. 😂
In the US - especially west of the Mississippi River, 100 miles is barely out of your way… Fun fact: Alaska is so large, if they cut it in two equally sized states, Texas would be the third largest state. Fun fact #2: the city of Denver, Colorado sits at over 5000 feet above sea level. The continental divide to the west of Denver rises to over 14,000 feet above sea level. Fun fact #3: not only is Alaska the largest state, it has the highest mountain peak at over 20,000 feet above sea level.
Little known fact. San Bernardino County used to be bigger. In 1893, the southern portion of San Bernardino County split off to become Riverside County. This means, at one point, San Bernardino County was 71,000 square kilometers.
Technically in several parts of the us water is classified as inhabitable city area mostly south of the mason dixon line house boats and submersable fixed housing
For size comparisons, try thinking about Jersey as an island in Lake Superior. It could be placed not only out of sight of land, for the most part, and be surrounded by deeper water, too. Of course, the weather would be utterly different, but that's another fish to fry.
Interestingly, there's an island in Lake Superior that could be used as an analogue for Jersey, although it's 5 times the size and is a national park and thus has no permanent population. It's called "Isle Royale" and is well out of sight of land.
Driving through the Great Plains feels like an endless montage in a lovely yet dystopian film. The sheer scale fills your soul with awe and sublime horror. 'Murica!
Alaskan here. Takes about an hour drive to get out of the Anchorage municipality. Of course, that's only north or south. No other options. Then Alcan hwy takes days to get down to the lower 48 states. Great drive though, bit of rough roads, but some great places on the way. Laird hot springs will always be my favorite, been to the blue lagoon in iceland but prefer Laird. More natural.
My ex and I made the drive from W. Pa. out to Colorado one summer years ago. . If you want just a tiny sense of how big America is, try driving across Kansas on I-70. It never (quacking) ends, it's totally flat....actually, the land rises east to west, but you don't notice it because it's so flat...and there are stretches of the interstate where the road is absolutely straight for 10 miles or more at a time. (Although one cool things is that at some spots you can walk maybe 50 yards off the road and see parts of the Oregon Trail, and the wheel ruts made by covered wagons almost 200 years ago.) I cannot imagine what it would be like to drive across Texas from, say Beaumont to El Paso....except in Texas you at least have a variety of land regions to drive through from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country to Big Bend Country.
The ‘New England’ and ‘New Jersey’ thing being named after places in England is also true for New York. Lots of town and city names in the north east are from the UK as well.
A fun comparison: I live at an altitude higher than the tallest mountain in the UK... like, nearly a kilometer above it, and there's mountains around me that peak higher than double the UK's tallest. Also, the lake nearest me is almost as wide as the most narrow point of the English Channel and has a total coastline of over 70 miles
Ah yes, the SIZE of the USA - I had a wonderful three weeks in GB years ago. I drove (a whole tale in itself), and reflected that the distance from London to Inverness is just about the same as the distance from San Diego to San Francisco - two cities well within the state of California.
Driving across Texas on highway 10 at 80 miles per hour (the speed limit) non-stop will take 12 hours. It's almost the same distance as driving from London to Rome.
4:31 As a New Jersey resident I did the math. It's 190 (189.6 really but I just rounded up for easy math) Jerseys can fit in New Jersey. (NJ) 2,722 sq mi / (Old Jersey) 46 sq mi
In Texas it is possible to drive for 12 hours in a straight line at 70 miles an hour and not leave the state.
Yeah, and go 8 GODDAMN hours without finding a radio station! You can do the same thing in California going North/South but at least there you are hitting cities along the way. In Texas, you veer off into the abyss. I've driven all over this country and the worst drive I've ever done was from El Paso to Laredo. The stretch between El Paso and San Antonio I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Thank god you guys have decent speed limits at least!
Bristol, Tennessee is closer to Canada than to Memphis, Tennessee.
@@michlo3393 now we just download podcasts🤣
@@danhard8440 lol yeah thank god for that.
@@robertwinfree3197and Reno Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles.
American here -- when I lived in England, some friends went to the U.S. and thought they could drive from Los Angeles to Chicago in a few hours. It took them three days of 12 hour days driving. When they came back to to England they overylaid a map of their driving miles in the US with a map of Europe -- they found it would be like driving a car from Leeds to somewhere in Syria.
Washington, Dc to LOS Angeles by car, a Rule of Thumb(Not a hard and fast rule given the variables of both weather and traffic ) is 5 full days
And a Californian here. Grew up in LA. Which I believe is the largest city by area in the lower 48. Alaska doesn't count and Jackson cheated! Anyways, now living in San Bernardino County 100 miles east. Ridiculously huge. Fortunately we live in a small mountain city at 6700'. No big deal. I like the guy reporting....he's spot on. Especially about the Inland Empire. Yikes. And yeah, the Beasley mum. We'd call her a 'sweetheart'.
I lived in student housing that was always half-filled with international students. The number of times I had to burst people's bubble at breakfast and tell them no, you can't hop in the car and have lunch and do some shopping in X city and be back for dinner was mind-boggling. You can't even leave the state of Texas as a day trip.
@@SatipatthanaSakuraDragona Unless you live in Texarkana then you can go to Arkansas for lunch.
@@gkiltz0 Three days if you don't stop overnight and have a two or more drivers.
New Jersey is ~166x bigger than Jersey.
Jersey is approximately 116 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 16,461% larger than Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of Jersey is ~102,146 people (8.7 million more people live in New Jersey).
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Hmm, it is actually 188.89 times the size of the Bailiwick of Jersey. New Jersey is actually 22,591.38 sq. km. while Jersey is 119.6 sq. km. The estimated population of New Jersey in 2021 9.267 million people [according to the US Census Bureau,] while Jersey's population was 103,267 in 2021 according to the government of Jersey.
@@aaronhoy3410 Yeah, but New Jersey still has that new off-the-lot state smell. 🤮 It's totally great.....
I know they mentioned it in their reaction but you really should have mentioned to them that Jersey is a city while New Jersey is a STATE. It many cities inside its borders. The comparison is really not fair at all.
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What are you talking about? The people in the video are referring to the Bailiwick of Jersey which is a quasi-country [British Crown Dependency so kind of, kind of not a country,] where they live. It also has multiple cities within it.
No one here, was referring to Jersey City, NJ.
I live in Michigan. What is missing from the illustration are the Great Lakes. They look like oceans.
If they weren't freshwater they would be oceans! Even Americans have trouble comprehending how very large freight ships can go down.
I lived in Texas (austin) for a year and they kept telling me they had lakes (Lake travis, Lake Austin and Lady bird lake) I said if you can stand on 1 bank and see the other they are ponds. They asked where I was from and I said Ohio.
They even have tides.
I grew up near San Diego. The first time I drove though Stockton California and saw freighters and small container ships there it was a bit of a shock. I hadn't really thought about the Port of Stockton there in the Central Valley.
In fact the reason they are not considered inland seas is because they are not salt water.
Being fresh water boats with similar hull design will draft deeper in the great lakes than on the Atlantic Ocean
Back in ‘93 my cousins came to visit us in the US from The Netherlands. They planned to drive from Las Vegas to New York. They thought they could do it like a European backpacking trip. When we showed them the map, they almost fainted!😂
Visited a bunch of countries in Europe one summer (Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, then England) and it was the equivalent of going state to state. Like I’m from Philly And I can be in NJ within minutes but the shore is like an hour. NYC is 2.5 hrs. Delaware and Maryland not far away either. Less than 45 mins.
😂😂😂
Even by the standards of Europe, Netherlands is a pretty small country
A friend from the American state of Colorado once told me she was going to be in San Jose, California, and asked how far was that from where I lived in Los Angeles? I asked honestly, “by car or by plane?” She was stunned that California was that large. So even Americans can be surprised by how big America is! (It would have been about an hour by plane, or a six hour drive, and the two cities were not even at the extreme ends of the state.
California’s size was really hard to conceptualize as a life long east coaster.
6 hour drive is short by US standards, so taking a plane wouldve been overkill
yeah no i would not be asking about flights for a trip that would take only 6 hours by car. that's really not much
In fact San Francisco is just about the center of the coast There is a large and very sparsely populated half the state between there and the Oregon state line.
I remember a buddy of mine from japan came to my wedding in idaho. We became friends at college in Illinois. He wanted to go see the school. I told him it was litterally 24 hours drive away. He couldnt believe it
Estimated population of the UK right now is ~67 million people. Between California and Texas, there's ~69 million people.
This is t true. Not even close. There are on,y about 9.4 million people between California and Texas.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwoodso uh… there’s actually 2.2 million people in the city of Houston alone and about 30 million in the state of Texas…
@@Savannaquinn that’s weird. I always though the city of Huston was IN the state of Texas.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood it is I was just giving an example of a single city in Texas to explain why it couldn’t be a combined 9.4 million between the 2 states!
@@Savannaquinn But, What is between Texas and California?
2 weeks ago I did a 450 mile (one way) trip just to buy a wrecked motorcycle. Drove 8 hours one way and didn't even leave the state.
I've neverbeen that far , even on holiday !
Interestingly, I was talking to a colleague who resides on the East coast (I live on the West coast) and had to explain how vast California was. I found out that many in the East don’t realize that there’s a great distance between Northern California and Southern California and how different we are in culture and climate. I explained that California was similar to the distance of driving from the northern tip of Florida to New York City. He was in shock. 😂
You are so right! My friend who is originally from New Jersey arrived in Los Angeles and thought we could just do a drive to San Francisco. I simply didn't have the strength to drive 7 hours more as I'd just driven 87 miles from the opposite direction and we still needed to get back. I had suggested more than once that she arrive in Palm Springs or Ontario instead of Los Angeles - no worries, she didn't realize the distance.
I’ve driven from South Jersey (Philly Metro area) to Orlando and back a couple of times and flown to Orlando a couple of times. It basically a “2 or 2” situation - Two days in a car or two hours in an airplane. The drive isn’t that bad until get south of Jacksonville. Then you get onto I-4, which is the biggest Charlie Foxtrot of a highway you’ll ever be stuck on.
Being from Ohio, I didn't know that, and I've visited California, too.
American here- 20 years ago, I drove from Los Angeles-Toronto, Canada and back after 1.5 years. In the travel back home to L.A. we took the southern route…it felt like I was driving across Texas for a century 😂 Loved your video- made me think about how massive we are as a country. Also, we really do call it the Inland Empire and I never really thought about it till this video. Sounds like a galactic force in Star Wars 😂
My family spent two weeks in London several years ago and left feeling like we had barely scratched the surface with regard to all the wonders there. When we left London in the morning on the first day of our third week, we made a stop at Oxford, Blenheim Palace and landed in Stratford where we stayed overnight at the Royal Shakespeare Hotel, which, I'm told, was extensively renovated about 100 years before my country was born. There wasn't a right angle in the place, and it was absolutely charming. The next day, we went on to York with a few stops in between. While we didn't cover a lot of miles, we covered two thousand years of history (the Romans did leave their mark there, didn't they?) and it was amazing!
The U.S. certainly has its natural beauty. The trouble is, getting from scenic place to scenic place requires a lot of time. That's fine if the journey - seeing the sights in between the scenic places - is really your objective, but folks visiting from Europe often want to see many of the highlights in a brief visit and that's just not possible.
It's hard out here for a simp
"but folks visiting from Europe often want to see many of the highlights in a brief visit and that's just not possible."
It is if you're willing to hop on plane between spots. Or, you can see a lot in a week or two on a driving trip. A north-south loop through California from LA to SF and back is doable. Or all of Utah's national parks (and maybe throw in the Grand Canyon and Vegas on the same trip). The Northeast from DC through NY to Maine is possible. Or Chicago and the Great Lakes. Or the Pacific Northwest including Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and the wonderful national parks in that area.
Very well said, intelligently spoken and beautifully shared!
I'm so jealous! I want to visit the UK so bad!
Its great to see Millies mom again on these videos! She's great!
It's always nice to see Sally and her reactions. Great job.
I am 56 years old and all my childhood my family traveled every summer on vacations all over the U. S. As and adult I have traveled fairly extensively on my own and I still have yet to step foot in 20 states. America is freaking massive
How many European countries have you been to? Im an american and have been to most of the 48 continental states but have only been to 2 countries (US and Mexico)
@@michaelpatton4593 Germany, Holland, Italy, and a bit each of Mexico and Canada. Germany and Italy were a blast. The food, the booze, and the people!
Years ago when I was visiting Japan someone asked how often I visited NYC from my one in Philadelphia. I had to explain 1) Philadelphia is a big city of over 1M. 2) NYC is two hours away so we wouldn't go for ordinary outings like catching a movie or going to dinner. 😂. They had no concept of the distance between well known cities ie LA and San Fran, Atlanta and Orlando, Chicago and NYC.
In Japan one could hop on a super fast train and be in NYC in 40 minutes, why don’t we have better rail system, I’m looking at you Texas!
You can Drive to Edinborough from London in an afternoon. Have you ever driven for nine hours straight without being in another state? Brisbane to Cairns, both in Queensland, is 2 days, and Cooktown and the cape are still north of there. It takes around 4 days to go from cairns to Melbourne. To go from Melbourne to Perth, is more like 5 or 6 days. Our continent is a similar size to the US.
without the vast highway system that the USA has. That helps speed travel up here, when you have 4 lane freeways. Not everywhere of course.
I think y'all just drive slowly. I can make it from LA to NY in 2 days hot swapping drivers.
Yes Texas you can easily drive for 14 hours to leave the state. It would take several several days to drive across Alaska but so many areas are so remote you can only get to them via flight. The highway system doesn’t go to many places its too isolated/rugged etc etc
@@Jaster832that’s really not an easy thing to do. Even if you eat and sleep (while switching drivers out) in the car just stopping for gas bathroom/grab fast food or something really really quick from a gas station that is like a 44 hour trip.
@@lijohnyoutube101 You can't drive across Alaska, as you just pointed out. If you start in Texarkana and you are leaving via El Paso and you drive the speed limit (no one does) you can't get out of the state in 14 hours.
My family once drove from Nashville, Tennessee to Anaheim, California in just 34 hours. That trip is 2,000 miles long! And I did all of the driving. We left on a Monday right after breakfast and arrived on Tuesday for dinner.
As an Alaskan, I wouldn’t be mad at changing the state name to Galaska 🤣
honestly bro, we're all here for it
Alaska--the biggest state in the Union!
To put Texas to scale, we have an airport known as KDFW in aviation speak or Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and it alone is larger than the whole state of Rhode Island… and it’s also currently being expanded to have a 6th terminal with another 26 gates.
I always worry about connecting through DFW 😂
More gates for illegal immigrant outgoing flights?😆
KDWF is the Dallas/Fort Worth FOX 4 TV affiliate.
DFW the airport with the monorail and hotel!
Wait does that mean to walk from one side of the airport to the other it would be like walking the width of Rhode Island😭😭 man that’s crazy
In high school I had a German exchange sister who lived with us in Oregon for a year. At Christmas we visited my Uncle in southern California. Dad took a globe and a string, measure from our house to my uncle's general area, then measured from her town in Germany, the string ended up in the middle of the Sahara.
Back in the day I had a 3 day weekend so I decided to visit New England. I started in Delaware.
I managed to visit (or at least drive through) each of those states in 3 days. I stopped in New York City for a while. I buzzed through Connecticut and Rhode Island. I visited Boston and stayed the night. Then I went into Maine as far as Augusta, bought a souvenir and got back on the road. I came back down the interstate and went into New Hampshire. I mainly buzzed through there. I spent the night in Montpelier Vermont. Then I crossed Lake Champlain on a ferry and came back down through New York state.
Nice little trip with some decent time for sightseeing. Probably around 500 miles total.
Interestingly, New Jersey is one of the smallest US states by area (47th out of 50 in total area, 46th out of 50 by land area) but is over 150 times the size of "Old" Jersey. To put its size in UK terms, it's a tiny bit larger than Wales. Another interesting New Jersey fact is that it's the most densely populated US state. It has the 11th largest population of any US state (9,288,994 as of the last census). Despite this, it has a fairly large area of parks and wild areas such as the Pine Barrens, and is nicknamed "The Garden State".
You might be surprised by the topography of some of those states. Montana has its share of the Rocky Mountains, but the mountains make up only a rather small portion of the state.
I live in Vegas currently, I moved from Wyoming. You would think I live in a desert. But did you know I'm surrounded by mountains that are also part of that desert?
I didn't , no .
My husbands nephew is half Philipino, and he was living in NY city at the time, and they asked him if he could drive down to Mississippi to get something for them. They did not understand the size of this place for sure. That would be a 2 day (plus) drive, if things were going well. He was laughing about it. Needless to say, he did not drive to Mississippi.
6:27 Come to Montana for mountains! Montana is mountain in Spanish. I live near 5 wilderness areas in western Montana ...grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, moose, elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, mountain goats, pronghorn antelope, wolf, bob cats, lynx, eagles, are a few of the animals I've seen this year hiking in these wilderness areas. It's beautiful, dangerous and breath taking out here. Don't forget your fishing pole either, world class trout fishing all around too.
There's a rural part of New Jersey that sits roughly in the center which they call, "The Pine Barrens." I can assure you that the entire island of Jersey could be set down in the Pine Barrens and few people outside of the area would notice.
You're only partially right. The Pine Barrens are mostly in South Jersey.
A friend's mother in Ireland called her in a panic on 9/11. The proximity of New York City to Northern Ohio looked far too close for comfort on a map.
I have been across the US five times, once from precise coast to coast. Texas, where I now live, is a two day drive. The last trip passing through Texas I was pinned down on the Panhandle by a blizzard. The drive across America, if done reasonably with 8-10 hr days takes 7-8 days. I have also driven from Canada to southern Florida. But that's for another day.
Time to do the diagonal, from Washington state to Florida!! That's a fun one - 5 12+ hour days to get from one to the other. Did it 4 times in 3 years...makes me want to move to the middle of the country!!
Yay mom! That was a great analogy about years and miles.
" I used to think 100 miles was a long way"
Bro, my gf lives a little over a hundred miles from me. About an hour 1/2. I make the drive like every weekend just about. It's like nothing to me.
Wyoming and Montana are ranching cultures. There's not a lot of water to tap into in Wyoming either. The Winters are brutal. But those states are absolutely beautiful. And if I could live there I would. But Texas is my heart. So I feel like I'd be betraying my own beautiful state. I've lived for a while in the Colorado Rockies. Also would love to live there again. The forests and mountains are awesome eye candy. To stand on the back porch and seeing hundreds of miles of snow capped mountains was a blessing. But the Texas hill country is beautiful. And it's homegrown people are simply the best. You won't meet nicer people anywhere. Great video today. Glad Mum's with you today. Bet she's really spoiling Archie. It's what us grandmother's are for.
❤ from Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
I lived in Laramie, Wyoming for three years. Wyoming has mountains and ranches, basically. Laramie was so windy with very little humidity that I would wash the sheets and pillowcases from one bed, hang the sheets, then the pillowcases, and the first sheet hung was already dry! But the mountains are magnificent-the Rockies and the Grand Tetons make one feel very small and insignificant!
A couple of videos you guys might enjoy are the busiest airports in the US and busiest airports in the world. The one airport that I am fairly certain will be at the top, for passenger traffic, is Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the area I grew up. That airport never sleeps. The number of passenger flights that go through that airport a day is insane.
Millie’s Mom is so pretty! Love seeing her on the videos.
I love mom!!!! Moms are sooooo great!!! More please!!!! So says Austin Tx!!!!!! 😎🍸
Years ago a friend from Scotland called and said “I’ll be in New York for a couple of days. Do you want to meet up for a day?” He was wowed when he found out it would take 5 to 6 days to even drive to California where I and some other Gaels lived. The US is huge and mostly just farmland between the two coasts.
You can drive cross country in 2 days if you have the will.
@@docsavage8640 And have enough money to bail you out after the cops get you for speeding.
@@katw3070yeah. It will take you one day to drive across Texas (along interstate 10) at the regular posted speed limit
You lost the upvote when you said it is mostly farmland between the coasts. Your leftist brainwashing is showing. That has been a lie said by them for 30 years as a way to devalue the states they can't ever get votes in. It is also why the term flyover state exists. It is an insult. Those states have so much in them, they are more valuable than the coastal states. I have worked all over the country, I like being away from the coasts.
Yah, between the coasts that farmland is called 'flyover' country :)
From Lands End in Cornwall to John O'Groats in Scotland (840 mi/1352 km) gets me about halfway to Florida.
Sally needs to make the US trip with you. She can help with Archie!
Your haircut looks great on you Millie's Mom! 🙂 Another fun reaction by both of you!
I drive from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Barstow, California, it takes me three days. Most of the time is spent just getting through Texas.You do not want to do this trip in the summer unless you have AC in your car. It's hot and humid ,until you hit El Paso then it just plain hot. You could bake cookies on you dash as you go down the interstate. Once you turn North at Palm Springs headed for the high desert it gets even hotter. The trip to upstate New York from Lake Charles is bit better because your driving through states with a Lot of trees. Still hot but not as bad, but still takes two to three days depending on how much you stop. I have been wanting to drive the highway 95 from Maine to the Florida keys. I just think it would be so much fun.
Even on Amtrak it took all day to cross Texas
Wow that’s about a 24 hour drive! I don’t even like the 11 hour drive from Jacksonville, FL, to Lake Charles. There’s a tunnel at least, so that’s kind of fun.
I work in the National Parks (LOVE Yellowstone!) and drive cross country several times a year. It can easily take a week of 8-hour days to get from one coast to the other.
Drove to New Hampshire from Central Florida about 20 years ago, it took about 24 hours of driving if I remember correctly.
I went to Spokane, Washington and I was shocked that in such a big city it takes 20 minutes to get to everything unless you are in the same parking lot and that doesn't include Spokane Valley.
I had a friend from the UK who had a business meeting in Albany, NY and wanted to visit me in NYC. She said she'd visit me then take "a cab" to Albany! 😂😂😂😂
I packed up and moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Dallas, Texas several years back. It was a 25 hour drive, stopping only for food, restrooms, and a one-hour nap at around 4 am. Generally speaking, I made really good time, for a 1500+ mile drive.
That's only halfway across the country.
Your eyes fall off 😂😂 You just have to love him! Hi Millie’s mom! 🙋🏼♀️ Your son-in-law is so much nicer than mine! 😂
He should have done the Great Lakes. Many States in America could fit in most of them.
I feel like ther great lakes hold not as many but so many mysteries it deserves the attention of ocean exploration.
I live in Montana and regularly drive 120+ miles, one way just to go hiking on the weekend.
Excellent and fun video. Thanks! I (from US) once had a friend from Australia who was coming to visit Houston in Texas and also flying to Florida. She couldn't understand why I couldn't just meet up with her in each place. I told her it's a 2 day drive for me to get to each one, and about a 2 day drive between Tx and Fla. And I don't even live up near Canada. She had no idea how big it all is.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km. Jersey, UK is approximately 119.49 km² Yay! Glad to see Sally about some more!
Wyoming is a beautiful state with mountains and flat lands ... No state income tax also
Living in Arizona, I once moved a 2 1/2 hour drive away to a different city and still lived in the same county.
I live in New Jersey! And we call it Jersey. Usually north and south Jersey. North Jersey is near New York and South Jersey is near Philadelphia and Delaware. They have very different culture and accents. My Jersey is one of the smaller states. And we break up into about five regions and people are reluctant to drive from one part to another.
To get a perspective, in Wyoming where I live we have two school districts in Laramie county and one of those districts is larger then Rhode Island. And yes, there are more cows then people. There are around 500,000 people and over one million cows.
Heading from Denver to Alabama for Christmas. Over 1500 miles each way..we do it in 2 days.
Wyoming is high, cold and dry. So it's got plenty of cattle ranches, but not agriculture...as in growing crops. Wyoming is also rather flat. In fact, it's the only state where you cross the "Continental Divide" (top of the Rocky Mountains) twice going in one direction. It is also very windy. The joke is that you could put a piece of paper against one side of the house and the wind would keep it there for 6 months. Then you could simply move it to the other side of the house for the next 6 months. Major attractions are Yellowstone (in the upper western corner) and the Grand Tetons down the west side (after you cross the flat crown of Rockies in the middle).
You talked about coming to America and I know that you asked about California, Florida, and Texas. But August is very hot in those states. If you went to New England, you could see a diversity of landscapes, plus, go to Boston and NYC - having so many of the smallest states makes New England one of the good options. New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont all are unique and beautiful and you can't go wrong with Boston and NYC as your city representations. Chicago and those surrounding states are also nice. I lived in California for 6 years and if I could bring you back in time to when I lived there, I would say California for sure. San Diego, Pacific Coast Highway, Yosemite, etc are all gorgeous. But the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles have really messed up those areas. Lots of homeless and I think you might be disappointed. But their national parks are still amazing.
My daughter like Boston. I lived in Pennsylvania for ten years and no way was I going down into New York city, and that was before all the illegals.
@@BillieOtero-qe1jq I am not sure what NYC is like right now. But they had gotten rid of crime for several years. I live in a nearby state and would take the train in and have a fabulous time. I haven't been since COVID. I know that they lost a lot of the crowds.
Hi Sally!! So glad to see you back on. Your hair looks wonderful. You should join James and Millie on their trip to the US. We would live to have you!
Californian here. It takes 7 hours to drive from LA to San Francisco. Still in the same state
I never understood how small the UK is until I realized my move to OR was the length of the entire island.
I was raised near San Diego California, I now live about an hour north of San Francisco. Sunset time here is almost an hour later than in San Diego. That is how much of a bend California has. Also, Reno Nevada is West of Los Angeles. Not by much, but a little.
Three hour drive somewhere, say for lunch? Nothing but a pleasant day trip. Be back in plenty of time to fix dinner.
When your man talks about making the "commute" from Chicago to Indianapolis, if he's driving rather than taking a commuter flight or a train, that commute can take between 3 and 4 hours one way. That's not a commute as such, but a trip. Some people do it more often than others, but an hour is a typical long, daily commute. 3 or 4 hours one way is the usual weekly trip, if taken for work.
After three or more times (depending on how many drivers) you've spent 1-2 days going north-to-south, or 3-4 days going coast-to-coast across the USA, you get used to it.
When lived in England years ago, my English neighbors were astonished that my wife and I would drive 4 - 5 hours to holiday somewhere in the UK for a weekend.
I am an American living in Arizona (larger than the UK I think). I live in Tucson (1 million people metropolitan area), 120 miles from Phoenix (about 5 million). People routinely drive that 120 miles, some every day. My daughter lives there and drives to Tucson to visit me. It takes only 1 hr. 20 minutes to drive the Interstate ("motorway") between these cities.
I actually envy you all living in such a compact country as the UK. Everything is so close. (I visited there 55 years ago!).
A West Virginia hillbilly and Texan were talking and the Texan, bragging about how big his homestead was, said, “ I can drive my truck all day long and still not reach the end of my driveway.” To which the hillbilly said, “ I had a truck like that once.”
Our family often pics a location within 2 hours' drive once a month and visit it and have a scoop of ice cream or sometimes just a picnic if the weather is nice. Although with the cost of gas and food on the rise....
When I was in the military, I was stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso Tx. Which was as far west Texas as you could go. It might as well be Mexico! When I got out and made the grueling drive back to Connecticut, which took several days. It took almost 13 hours (and most of the highways are 70 or 80 mph) just to go from the west side of Texas through to the east side of Texas! I would love it if I never had to make that drive again!! Haha
From Jacksonville, FL. It is over an hour from end to end (especially with Navy traffic). I was raised under NAS JAX flight path, hey... free Blue Angel's airshow.
You were pretty much right about Wyoming. It's where Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons and many other protected lands are. There are some plains but it's not a lot farmland. There would more likely be a ranch. It's a little cold for farming. I guess that's why it's not highly populated.
Fun fact here in Maine we have more Coast line / general ocean line of 3,478 miles compared to Californias 840 miles coast line, and all of our City’s in Maine are on the coast do to our high value of sea food and ship building and cargo docks while our Towns are are more in land and based around major rivers for agriculture and moving resources back in the day like sending logging trees down the river, Maine remains as Vacation land of the US as we get many tourist through out all of our seasons, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring do to our state having many attractions and activity during all seasons like driving through the mountains during Fall or Snowboarding / skiing and snowmobiling during the winter, and the locals here are nice and are welcoming especially when they try our top of the line Maine lobster and seafood like our famous Lobster Rolls.
" New Jersey is ranked 47th of the fifty states that comprise the United States of America in terms of area. The total area of the state is 8,729 square miles (22,610 km )" "Jersey is an island measuring 46.2 square miles (119.6 km ) (or 66,436 vergées), including reclaimed land and intertidal zone."
New Mexico is the 5th largest state with a population of about 2.1 Million.
So jersey fits in New Jersey 189 times :D
my favorite comparison is the 2 hour drive comparison: In Europe, you drive 2 hours and your in another country; in America you drive 2 hours and your in the next state; in Texas you drive 2 hours and your in the next city; and in Australia you drive 2 hours and your 2 hours away from the city you left
I've personally driven from California to Wisconsin more times than I can remember. That's approximately 2100 miles one way. 2 1/2 years ago we moved from southern California to southern Idaho, approximately 800 miles and thought nothing of it to do the entire drive in one day. We regularly get in the car and do a 250-350 mile drive just for pleasure.
I’ve traveled through Wyoming and much of it is empty of signs of human inhabitants aside from the road my friend and I drove on and some fences. No houses, no electrical towers, nothing. We even passed signs warning that people to get gas because the next gas station was 50 miles down the road.
And, please do come to the US. We'd love to have you. You're both lovely people. Indianapolis would welcome you with open arms.
For some reason, it's common to drop the New from New Jersey, which is sort of a pejorative, the way it's used. But nobody calls New York, just York.
I’ll throw this small random story for context of how us Americans think. I live in Seattle and flew out to Boston with my family. We planned to go straight from the airport to Kennebunkport Maine and I had resolved myself to hours of driving. I was pleasantly surprised to find out is was gonna be about 2 hrs of driving. As someone who lives in Seattle I drive 2 hours to work as someone in the trades more than a few months out of the year. Seattle to Anacortes or Leavenworth is a trek when you’re leaving with traffic, both 2hrs easy and Leavenworth is maybe 3hrs. Worked with Framers who lived in Chehalis and did work in Seattle and that blew my mind. Thats close to 3.5hrs in traffic every day, 5 days a week. Crazy.
I remember once having to explain to a friend of mine in Yorkshire why I couldn’t “pop-I’ll and visit a mutual friend who lived in New Jersey for a weekend trip since I live in NC which is only half close to the middle of the east coast. She was like, it might take a couple hours but if you stay the whole weekend it would be worth it. Then I had to explain that it was actually a 10 hour drive one way, sometimes more depending on how you hit the traffic in the different cities along I95. 😂
In the US - especially west of the Mississippi River, 100 miles is barely out of your way…
Fun fact: Alaska is so large, if they cut it in two equally sized states, Texas would be the third largest state.
Fun fact #2: the city of Denver, Colorado sits at over 5000 feet above sea level. The continental divide to the west of Denver rises to over 14,000 feet above sea level.
Fun fact #3: not only is Alaska the largest state, it has the highest mountain peak at over 20,000 feet above sea level.
I just moved back to Vermont from Tucson AZ, and it took 4 days driving 10 hours a day, 2500 miles (a touch over 4K km)
The UK is tiny
When I lived in California I had friends that drove 4 - 5 hours every day to go to work and another 4-5- hours to get back home at night.
Little known fact. San Bernardino County used to be bigger. In 1893, the southern portion of San Bernardino County split off to become Riverside County. This means, at one point, San Bernardino County was 71,000 square kilometers.
Technically in several parts of the us water is classified as inhabitable city area mostly south of the mason dixon line house boats and submersable fixed housing
For size comparisons, try thinking about Jersey as an island in Lake Superior. It could be placed not only out of sight of land, for the most part, and be surrounded by deeper water, too. Of course, the weather would be utterly different, but that's another fish to fry.
Interestingly, there's an island in Lake Superior that could be used as an analogue for Jersey, although it's 5 times the size and is a national park and thus has no permanent population. It's called "Isle Royale" and is well out of sight of land.
Not just the USA, but Australia and Canada are massive countries too.
Russia, Brazil, China, India, Argentina, and Kazakhstan as well.
Living on the east coast of the US, we almost always say Jersey for New Jersey but always say New York. We have a York Pennsylvania
Driving through the Great Plains feels like an endless montage in a lovely yet dystopian film. The sheer scale fills your soul with awe and sublime horror. 'Murica!
Alaskan here. Takes about an hour drive to get out of the Anchorage municipality. Of course, that's only north or south. No other options. Then Alcan hwy takes days to get down to the lower 48 states. Great drive though, bit of rough roads, but some great places on the way. Laird hot springs will always be my favorite, been to the blue lagoon in iceland but prefer Laird. More natural.
My ex and I made the drive from W. Pa. out to Colorado one summer years ago. .
If you want just a tiny sense of how big America is, try driving across Kansas on I-70. It never (quacking) ends, it's totally flat....actually, the land rises east to west, but you don't notice it because it's so flat...and there are stretches of the interstate where the road is absolutely straight for 10 miles or more at a time. (Although one cool things is that at some spots you can walk maybe 50 yards off the road and see parts of the Oregon Trail, and the wheel ruts made by covered wagons almost 200 years ago.)
I cannot imagine what it would be like to drive across Texas from, say Beaumont to El Paso....except in Texas you at least have a variety of land regions to drive through from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country to Big Bend Country.
I have driven 110 miles through Gila national forest without pavement (not even crossing it) or doing loops.
The ‘New England’ and ‘New Jersey’ thing being named after places in England is also true for New York. Lots of town and city names in the north east are from the UK as well.
A fun comparison:
I live at an altitude higher than the tallest mountain in the UK... like, nearly a kilometer above it, and there's mountains around me that peak higher than double the UK's tallest.
Also, the lake nearest me is almost as wide as the most narrow point of the English Channel and has a total coastline of over 70 miles
As an American, I learned a lot too! Great video 😊
Sad.
I drive 40 miles to work every day and that’s a short commute.
Ah yes, the SIZE of the USA - I had a wonderful three weeks in GB years ago. I drove (a whole tale in itself), and reflected that the distance from London to Inverness is just about the same as the distance from San Diego to San Francisco - two cities well within the state of California.
Brit , here .London- Inverness is, to me , a long flight !
I figured it out once. THREE British Isles (the whole lot) can fit in the state of Texas.
Driving across Texas on highway 10 at 80 miles per hour (the speed limit) non-stop will take 12 hours. It's almost the same distance as driving from London to Rome.
10:38 - "Water isn't habitable"
Wait until you learn about Boston
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As a New Jersey resident I did the math.
It's 190 (189.6 really but I just rounded up for easy math) Jerseys can fit in New Jersey.
(NJ) 2,722 sq mi / (Old Jersey) 46 sq mi