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Did not expect to see my home pop up on the front page of HN — I live in Northern Ontario, and only a ten hour drive from where this article is set! More serio
by justusthane 2y ago
Did not expect to see my home pop up on the front page of HN — I live in Northern Ontario, and only a ten hour drive from where this article is set!
More seriously, I did actually live just an hour south of there briefly. Northern Ontario is a big place.
- OptionOfT 2y agoBeing from Belgium a 10 hour drive makes me go from Belgium -> Netherlands -> Germany -> Austria. Now that I live in the USA it's... weird. I moved from 1 city to the next city. 7 hours away.
- Tyr42 2y agoIn Europe, 100 years is recent history; in America, 10h drive isn't too far.
- potato3732842 2y agoCalais is farther from Paris in Maine than in France.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoWhat?
- pas 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais,_Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais,_Maine is farther from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Maine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Maine than Calais (France) from Paris (France)