[OSM-talk] UK meetup

[Ben Gimpert]

In the Midwest of the U.S., people also think nothing of such drives.
When growing up we would drive from the Chicago 'burbs to visit family
in Detroit in a morning with no planning or thought-to-effort.  That's
500km.  Man is gas cheap across the pond.

I find it amusing that to most Londoners, my potential "commute" from
north London to Nottingham was just *ABSURD*.

"American is a place where 100 years is a long time, and Europe is a
place where 100 miles is a long way."

		Ben



On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:10:03AM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Andy Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Depends when it is, but Oxford is only an hour away fro me so 
> > might be possible for me if the timing fits.
> 
> Most Europeans have a very strange concept of distances.  In 
> northern Sweden, we are told, people drive four hours on a 
> Saturday afternoon to get "into town" just for a cup of coffee at 
> a cafe, then they drive back again.
> 
> IKEA's founder Ingvar Kamprad is from southern Sweden.  In a 
> recent radio interview he said his experience from Russia had 
> given him a new perspective on distances and he will open a new 
> store in Haparanda at the end of this year, at the northern shore 
> of the Baltic Sea, where Sweden meets Finland (65.8° N, 24.1° E). 
> For the opening, there are busloads of people from Murmansk 
> coming.  People in northern Norway have said they are "finally 
> getting an IKEA store in their region".  The Norwegian border is 
> 350 km away.  Murmansk is 500 km away.  That's like 
> London-Glasgow, Paris-Frankfurt, Berlin-Warszaw or Rome-Milan.
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
> 
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