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I'm from Belgium. Anything over 50 km (30 miles) away should ideally be turned into a weekend-long trip


Yep. I regularly drive 46 miles to visit my wife's family. The roads are long and straight, and the speed limits quite high.

We get passed on the highway when we're doing 120km/h. I don't imagine you can maintain those kinds of speeds on account of speed limits and winding roads. Possibly takes an hour or three?


When I visited relatives in the West Midlands of the UK, they treated any journey over 30 miles like an expedition into hostile territory, and so they were astonished that I'd drove 40 miles to hang out with my Mum for a few hours.


I do regular 240 mile roundtrip drive a month just to visit my mother. Doesn't faze me.


My wife attended graduate school 200km away and would leave and return the same day. At least one of the ways (depending on what time the class was) was in stop-and-go traffic for a decent part of it, taking up to 4 hours.


Ha, (USA - MS here), my mom lives 17 miles(27 km) away and I visit her regularly, and prior to my current job, I commuted 44 miles (70 km) daily for 3 years.


I own a business that's 124 miles away from my home.

You can guess where I live.


That’s like a 25 minute trip if you’re on the freeway.




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