I don't think it's as much about time, as it is about us North Americans being used to larger distances. London to Glascow is the length of Britain. Montreal to Toronto is a about 1/10th Canada from coast to coast.
cheers, frank
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From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New to the list Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:19:53 -0400 (EDT)
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> Whenever my ex' Irish relatives used to visit, they were astounded that we
> from Toronto thought nothing of heading off by car to Montreal (which is
> where all Torontonians have to go to have fun) for the weekend.
>
> "That's about the same distance as London to Glascow!", they'd say in
> astonishment. Seems that's a big trip round about those parts...
What these sort of comparisons usually forget to do is to allow for the infrastructure differences in different parts of the world. It's all too easy to assume that the rest of the world is basically similar to your bit.
Thus Americans tend to envision major towns connected by large, mostly empty,
highways, while the English think in terms of narrow, winding roads, with
massive congestion on the few limited-access highways.
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