>I think Americans routinely drive greater distances than us. I had a friend who thought it was no big deal to drive 600 miles at the weekend to go skiing.

Jeez that's like from Land's End to John O'Groats!

The canucks are the same. When I first went to see my cousin in Ontario they thought nowt of driving 2 hours from the farm to pick me up, then another 2 hours back to the farm. Her husband, a farmer, was also a teacher once. He used to get up mornings, feed the stock, then drive 2 hours to the school. Afternoons was the revere. Now they had friends in the town where the school was. It was nowt to drive 2 hours for a night out at a restaurant with them!

I found a lot of unnecessary driving was caused by the roads being in a rectangular grid, with no hypotenuses if you wanted to go from corner to diag. opposite corner.

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>>>Although, keep in mind many do not like the climate here for the first couple of years until they get acclimated. We have mountains and the beach though and we're not too far from NY and DC and Florida.
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>>I've just checked Google Maps and you're at least 100 miles from the beach!
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