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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5230555" data-attributes="member: 59506">As someone who's lived on both continents (grew up in Michigan, USA...moved to Mildenhall, UK when I was 21 for 6 1/2 years). I'd say there's a definite difference. I'd agree that daily commutes are probably about the same anywhere, relative to where you live (big city, rural, etc.). But, long distance driving trips are considerably different. In most parts of the states, highways make long distance travel much easier. For example, I can drive from my home here in Florida to my parents house in Michigan (just a little over 900 miles, as the crow flies...) in about 20 hours driving time (1 1/2 days travel time). In Europe that would be the equivalent of driving from London to Venice. Can that be done in a day and a half? My friends and I would never even mess with driving to Scotland. Too much of a hassle. We would rent a plane from the RAF Lakenheath Aero club (two of them had their pilots license) and fly up (Inverness). Took about two to three hours. I don't even want to imagine how long it would take to actually drive from Mildenhall to Inverness.  Definitely not worth it for a two, or even three day, weekend. 200 miles by highway takes less than 3 hours. For a daily commute, yeah that's a bit much. But for a day or weekend trip, most Americans won't even think twice about a 200 mile drive.  Up hill...both ways! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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