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You know the opposite can be said about people from Europe visiting America for the first time too. I remember years ago when I was in high school working at a gas station and a small town in Nevada. We had some Europeans show up in the middle of the night asking how far it was to San Francisco I told them it was another 12 hours from where we are currently at to be able to make it to San Francisco. They were absolutely aghast at the size and the distance because they had already driven from salt lake City where they had flown into. It took them hours to get to the town I was at and they could not believe it was another day's driving to get to San Francisco. They looked at a map and they thought to themselves it's only a little bit it'll only take us a few hours to make it there. They thought they were going to be able to drive from salt lake City to San Francisco in just a few hours so they could check out the Golden gate bridge before driving back and catching their next flight. And they were far from the first people that I had met that made similar mistakes to that. America is absolutely massive in comparison. So it's not a surprise that most Americans would look at something and say oh my God it's going to take us forever to go from where the ship docks to anywhere we can actually do something. Because in America any place a ship docs is a really long distance from anywhere you can actually do anything. And most the time you can't even walk through those areas because most of the time they are areas that are warehouse districts industrial districts things like that. So while Europeans love to make fun of Americans because oh no we can't walk. We walk extremely far just to get to the areas that we're at. Hell my kids when they went to high school their high school was exactly 20 miles from my front door to get to their high school. The junior high that my kids went to was 3 miles. The elementary school that my son goes to is a mile both directions. We still walk it we have no issues walking it.