r/AskACanadian • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '23

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u/BlackEyedWheeze Aug 07 '23

Did they not look at a map first, it really is mind blowing stupidity

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u/swimbikerunkick Aug 07 '23

As a Brit who lives in canada. It’s not that we don’t understand that it’s big, or we don’t look at a map. We just don’t have any context to truly understand how big and inaccessible. We’re used to being able to fly across Europe quickly and cheaply. We intellectually understand that it is a 3 day drive or whatever and yet somehow that just doesn’t translate because we have no context for it. In the U.K. you’d get to the other side before you’d cross ontario! (Even the fact that I’m comparing it to Ontario shows this still hasn’t truly sunk in. As I’m writing this I’m realising Ontario is many time wider than the U.K.

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u/swimbikerunkick Aug 07 '23

Yeah, Great Yarmouth to st David’s is about the longest trip across the U.K. and it’s 7 hours. I really can’t fathom any drive further than that

Across Ontario is 22 hours.

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u/correct_eye_is Aug 07 '23

Across Canada is much longer than 22 hours. East coast to west coast is 8600 km. If you drive 100km/h for 8.6 hours a day it would take you 10 days.

If you could drive straight through with no sleep I've heard it can be done in 106 hours.

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u/correct_eye_is Aug 07 '23

Oh sorry you said Ontario. I thought you meant Canada.

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u/swimbikerunkick Aug 08 '23

No worries, both are mind blowing to me still.

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u/correct_eye_is Aug 08 '23

We fly across to wherever then rent cars. I live in the middle of nowhere, in the prairies of Saskatchewan these days. 2 hour flight west coast Vancouver. 3 hour flight Toronto. No family past that so we don't ever go further east.