r/mapporncirclejerk • • 22h ago

Truly, factually, 8 hours

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u/Mr-MuffinMan 17h ago

you can drive for 24 hours from Long Island to Albany and you'll STILL BE IN FUCKING LOWER MANHATTAN BECAUSE THIS CITY HAS TOO MUCH FUCKING TRAFFIC

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u/xXTacitusXx 17h ago

Yeah, my coworker lives in Hamburg (northeastern part of the city and has to drive to Oldenburg each monday morning which is roughly halfway between Bremen and the border to the Netherlands. He spends one half of his commute to navigate through Hamburg and the other half to drive from Hamburg to Oldenburg. 🤔

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u/2rijo5 16h ago

Fühl ich. Hab mal in Hamburg gewohnt.

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u/Pizzagugusrild 15h ago

Well just take the train… Oh yeah, you got Deutsche BahnĀ 

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u/xXTacitusXx 15h ago

Yeah, that and also he is an engineer that oversees several building sites in a radius of 50 km around Oldenburg. It just doesn't make sense for him to not use his company car.

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u/flopjul If you see me post, find shelter immediately 16h ago

Hamburg is literal traffic hell as a truck driver... but tbh Antwerpen is even worse

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u/Homers_Harp 15h ago

Haha, I was confused at first because the state of New York has a city named ā€œHamburgā€ and I thought you were making a joke about the city of New York since Hamburg, New York is about as far from NYC as you can get without leaving the state. (also, don’t visit Hamburg, NY)

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u/xXTacitusXx 15h ago

šŸ˜‚ nice.

Also, to be fair, the US has about 30 places named after pretty much every european town bigger than roughly 100k people.

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u/Homers_Harp 15h ago

The southern shore of Lake Erie is especially funny for this. Hamburg is just the tip of the iceberg. I once did a long bicycle tour there and the signs are hilarious. As you ride to Hamburg, the road shows signs for turns to reach places like Dunkirk, Barcelona, and Versailles.

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u/xXTacitusXx 15h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 wow.

I mean yeah, Europe is smaller than the US, but not THAT much smaller.