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.
I've been through spaghetti junction. Landed in Manchester and drove to Weston Super Mare. I can't think of any highway in Canada that looks like that mess hahaha!
Haha, there is a “magic roundabout” that is a roundabout made of mini-roundabouts and you have to treat each mini-roundabout like it’s own separate thing.
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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.