New Zealand Family Reacts to How BIG is the USA Actually?

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Title: Lioness (Instrumental) by DayFox
Genre and Mood: Pop + Happy

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[CountessOfOle]

I remember once seeing someone from the UK say they rarely visit their family, because they lived 45 minutes away, and that was too far. And I was just thinking.... my daily work commute used to be longer than that. That's when it occurred to me that a lot of people-- especially Europeans-- form their opinions about Americans on a really dim understanding of how freaking big our country is.

[an_anishinaabe_son]

I laughed when the video said there are "several accents" in the US.

There are dozens of regional accents and thousands of community-centric accents. 😃

[TheTaiylorWallace]

I love it when folks from other countries come here and realize even our medium-size states are bigger than a TON of whole countries. And it's so cool to see folks journey across America and see how big and varied it is. It's truly an amazing experience and even more amazing by the fact that you can drive from west to east and speak the same language, use the same money, and enjoy the same comforts readily available the entire way.

[HistoryNerd]

We are a huge nation, it's why it always makes me laugh when other countries poke fun at us for not traveling abroad much. The incredible diversity in all senses of the word means we really don't have to(although I have been abroad twice.)

[chriscubbernuss]

I have a friend whose Slovakian wife's family came for their wedding. They were so excited to go see Chicago, Mount Rushmore, New York, the Grand Canyon, and many other landmarks around our country. They were only here for a week. We felt bad telling them they probably need to scale back their plans. They'll just have to come back for round two!! And three!!

[planedr]

You should do one on physical size. Living in Europe most had no concept of how big the states actually are. They couldn’t fathom driving for 10-12 hours and still being in the same state.

[KD_]

These guys are always respectful which makes me like New Zealanders even more. Cheers

[gregwarner]

When I was planning to ride a decrepit BMW R75 motorcycle from the West coast of the US to the East coast a friend from Europe said, "If you were starting that trip in Paris France you would wind up east of the Ural Mountains in Russia. The trip was 40 years ago and I still remember crossing the Sonora Desert in the Summer. it was a great ride.

[Stardust_]

I use to laugh, my friend in the UK can have breakfast in London, lunch in Paris & be back home to pick the kids up from school. With us we can't even cross our state before the next day 🤣🤣🤣. Too funny..

[t.r.]

We going to have to make these people US citizens, they are learning more than the people who live here.

[alanolson]

When I was in college (about 100 years ago when I was younger), I remember speaking with a couple from Japan who wanted to drive from where we were (Orange County, CA), to Yellowstone National Park and asked how long it would take. Their jaws dropped when I and my friends told them how long of a drive it is. Just driving to San Francisco was several hours and that shocked them.
Folks from other countries aren’t prepared for the immensity of the US. Another part of being here that they noticed was that we could pretty much understand each other no matter where we were.
“Could I have a glass of water please?”
“Which way is the hospital?”
“Are we on the right road to get to Philadelphia?”
These can all be asked and be understood- and, as I said, amazed these tourists.
We sometimes don’t know what we have here.

[dabeage]

I went to N.Z. late last year. You have a lovely country and the people were extraordinarily friendly and kind to us. Thank you.

[heathercuevas]

I was blown away by the fact you shared about New Zealand. Only 5 million people. I live in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. The entire Metro area has a population of a little over 6 million people and we aren't even the biggest city in Texas.

[yolandaclaassen]

I have friends in the USA, and every time one is going through a tornado or very bad storm I would ask the other one if they are safe as well, until I got a map from the USA and saw a video on the size. Now I know not to panic about all of them. Love how your family just grows and learns together.

[whiskeytango]

I spent the past few weeks this summer driving from western Canada to eastern Canada through the USA and back home west through Canada. I drove 8700 kms in three weeks, drove through 8 states and 4 provinces. A typical driving day was 7 or 8 hours behind the wheel. It took us three days to just get across Ontario. The US, and Canada, are HUGE!

[chrisandrew]

If every family was as wholesome as yours, the world would be a better place. Kids, you have really great parents

[gypsyjessye]

You can tell that this family actually likes each other and loves to learn new things. Congratulations on awesome parenting! 💗

[sancop]

I’ll never forget many years ago when I was getting a sandwich from Subway on lunch break. The guy behind the counter was from the Czech Republic. We were talking because I was fascinated by his accent. I said I think it’s so cool that he came here and how I wanted to travel the world one day. He looked at me and said, “I don’t know why. The USA has the most fascinating country with some of the most beautiful places in the world. I don’t know why you would ever leave your own country.” I had to stop and think about that. He was right but I had never even visited many of the places in my own country. That’s when I started refocusing and learned we have the most protected national and state parks in the world!!!

[SwampRatNation]

We are geographically huge, but some of that area, Alaska especially is not inhabited. I’ve been fortunate as a son of a US Navy sailor and a US Coast Guardsman to have had the opportunity to have traveled or lived in all 50 of our states, and seen the wide diversity we have to offer. Also my military service took me to New Zealand once and I absolutely loved it!!!

[bg]

Let's just say that when the pioneers in the 1840's left the East Coast to travel to Oregon by wagon, they really did say goodbye to their families. The chances of ever seeing them again was pretty much nil. The trip was something like 3 months before the railroad came in. The railroad cut it to a couple weeks as I understand it but few could afford coast to coast tickets.