On Tue, 19 May 2020 08:58:57 +0100, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>> This is one of the significant differences between Europeans and Americans
>> or Australians... Europeans think 100 miles (150km) is a long distance.

>Well it is!

Even in the dense eastern states, 100-150 miles is considered viable for a
day trip - it's not at all unusual, for example, for civil service unions
in NYC to arrange a day trip to Albany NY (closer to 150 miles than 100
miles) to lobby the state legislature for some bit of favored legislation.
Board the (chartered) busses in Manhattan at 8 AM, be in Albany around 11
AM, lobby, lunch, more lobby, board the busses back to NYC around 3 PM,
debark in Manhattan where you started around 6 PM.

At one point, the company my father worked for had some big customers in
the Boston MA area; my father was based in NYC (but dealt with any customer
anywhere in the world if high-powered technical knowledge of the company's
products was needed). It wasn't at all unusual for him to drive up in the
morning, put in a full day's worth of consulting with a customer (usually
pretty intense, so compressing what would normally be eight hours of work
into about five), have dinner with his company's regional VP afterward, and
drive back to sleep at home - he'd get on the road at about 7AM, and get
back around 11PM.  Distance from NYC to Boston, 225 miles.

So, no, it's not a long distance.   :)

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