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You talk about time to other cities because it's a constant. We talk about miles because otherwise, we'd have to say,"I live seven minutes from downtown SF bet
by reeses 13y ago
You talk about time to other cities because it's a constant.
We talk about miles because otherwise, we'd have to say,"I live seven minutes from downtown SF between 10pm and 7am, an hour and a half between 7am and 10am, twenty minutes between 10am and noon, an hour between noon and 2pm, forty minutes between 2pm and 4pm, an hour between 4pm and 7pm, and half an hour between 7pm and 10pm."
- icesoldier 13y agoVery true. That the roads between these cities mostly go through sparsely-populated rural areas helps. EDIT: Though, the point I wanted to make was that it was an abstraction over the longer distances between the cities. To rephrase my examples, it's 360mi to Dallas, 430mi to Denver, 260mi to OKC, and 600mi to Houston. (Now that I'm looking up distances, I can add 500mi and 7.5 hours to Austin in that list - that length isn't in my cache, so to speak.)