Americans and Europeans (including Brits) kinda think of the USA as an ordinary-sized country

[conuly]

And we're both exceedingly wrong, but at least Americans grasp that it takes about a week to drive from NY to CA if you plan to stretch your legs when you eat and then sleep at night, and that a plane flight from NYC to LA will take about the same amount of time as a flight from NYC to London.

Of course, the flipside is that we think, eg, France is quite a small country because, after all, it's only the size of one American state, and the fact that that state is Texas doesn't change things much.

All this is to say, and I'm not naming names here, but please take this into account when making travel plans and/or writing fic.

Comments

[imhilien]

I'm not sure. Australia can be part of New Zealand, we can call it West Island. :D

[fred_mouse]

You can have the Eastern States (which is everything East of WA, from my perspective), and then we can have Western Australia and West Island (NZ).

[imhilien]

Hooray! :-p