>>>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.
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>>Wow! I'm driving 180 miles to Gloucestershire this Friday and I see that as a major undertaking. I guess it's easy to forget just how small the UK really is.
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>It's a major schlepp for me to do the 250-odd miles to see my ma for a few days! :-)

Guilty as charged, both ways. IOW, I just hate to drive every day, and have picked a house close to the geographical center of the city, so to have less to drive to anything.

But then I've got into the mind frame where the definition of a long drive got very different from what it used to be. I remember when 120km used to be a long drive. Just this Sunday I drove about 300km just to try the car and see how does it behave before I take a 1000km trip next month.