Dartz Wrote:I suppose it is a matter of perspective, seen as I'm used to the idea of being able to cross the country in two hours, and would consider a drive to Galway an unusually long one. Being an hour away from home feels like quite a big distance to the Irish mind. I come from a small country. (And find it terribly interesting that Jet is able to get to Mars, in much the same time it takes to drive to Galway. That massive shift in perspective is fascinating)Whereas I have a co-worker who thinks of "an hour away from home" as "at the office"... (and that's using the expressways for almost the entire trip)
I think nothing of driving four and a half hours to see a friend in Toronto, and then driving four and a half hours back to Ottawa... in the same day. I don't do it very often, and that's all I do that day, but the concept isn't alien to me.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012