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[CANDLEQUEEN]

Where I live its a town with approximately 90,000 people. We have everything within a 20 minute radius. Grocery Stores, Doctors Office, hospitals,churches, shopping, eating, pharmacy, etc......My brother likes to say you can get almost anywhere in our town within 20 minutes and its true!

I have never lived anywhere else, so can't really compare that way..  

[Marsha2003]

I live in southern California and location is everything when it comes to travel times.  I remember when I first moved here, my father would ask me how far it was to something like the grocery store.  As another poster noted, I always responded in the amount of time, not the mileage because the mileage was irrelevant.  One stretch of 8 miles might take 15 minutes while a different stretch of 8 miles might take 30 minutes.  

When I visit my parents in their small city, I have to adjust my time sense because I can pretty much get anywhere in town in 10 minutes, so different to my home where it takes me 30 minutes to drive to the grocery store and somewhere between 30 - 60 minutes to go almost anywhere.

[shoekitty]

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@Carmie wrote:

I live on the east coast and 50 miles from home isn't far.  I drove to work and back 50 miles each way for years.

Some people just aren't comfortable driving, so any distance is a big deal.

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Shoekitty said, 50 miles isn't that far , drive that to doctors.  It is just here where we live in California it can take over an hour to nearly 2 hours to do so near or in rush hour.  Stop and go, stop and go, bumper to bumper. 

[juanitalinda]

I have enjoyed reading all these responses.  It seems that my original statement of east coast to west coast is incorrect.  But it does seem to depend on where you live.  

I love the statements of measuring distance in time rather than miles!  

And I marvel at the idea of being able to run all my errands and appointments in a matter of minutes, instead of hours.   Or being able to walk to a doctor's appointment?!  Incredible.  

Somedays I think I want to move other places and experience these differences.  Maybe sometime.  

[Trailrun23]

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[Ronettes]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I live in a South Jersey shore town, city actually. 

We can walk to the grocery store, hardware store, drug stores and all the restaurants and shops. 

Normally, we ride our bikes, beach bikes, sold the Harleys!

OP may live in NYC.  That can be a different animal.  Son lives on Long Island, but works in Manhattan.  Can take him over 2 hours to go 26 miles to get home in evening rush hour.  He actually started taking the train (again) because I think they imposed some sort of penalty for driving into the city now.

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Being in north NJ, we love the Jersey Shore but have to leave by 5:00 a.m. to drive down there, and leave the shore by 1:00 p.m. to come back. Otherwise, it's bumper-to-bumper on the parkway.

On the way back home, the parkway has many miles of completely stalled traffic on the other southbound side, must take them hours to get to the Shore!

[juanitalinda]

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@Trailrun23 wrote:

Some of the regional differences I have noticed are what some people call things:

depending upon where they live.

Soda pop? Soda?Soft drink?

Handbag? Purse? Pocketbook? Bag?

just a couple of examples

When you live in a state as big as Texas, you just assume anywhere you are going will take an hour, even in your own city. If you live in a small town, then it's an hour to get to the city.

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Pop ... 

Purse ... 

And tennis shoes.  (not sneakers)

[Trailrun23]

When we first moved back to the city, my job was 6.6 miles from our house. It took an hour and 5 minutes to get to work, and 90 minutes to get home. Nothing but traffic lights and no way to go via a highway; i don't miss retirement.

[songbird]

@chrystaltree We are a nation of cars.  People don't even car pool anymore.  We like to sit in our cars in the quiet.  Kind of brood and drive.  So blame the transit system.  

[laluzdelmundo]

@Ronettes Are you sure you don't live in Phoenix?