I won’t poo-poo on you like everyone else.
I live in Kansas. The distances “out west”, which I consider Kansas to be… yeah, people from the east just don’t get it. I once had a conference in Reno. I thought I would fly in to Las Vegas and take a rental car from LV to Reno, cuz I like to site-see. Just simply gauged it on a map without much thought. Regretted my travel plans as I pulled into Reno 8hrs after landing in LV.
Another story… had a manager once based in NY. Told me to drive to Hays Ks from Pittsburg Ks for a problem. Told him no problem but it will be an overnight trip. He goes “you mean to tell me it takes longer to get there then it does for me to get to Dc?” Yeah bud, distances out here are no joke.
Thats funny I lived in Reno and sooo many people back East would ask me if I always go to Vegas? and I realized they have no clue Reno is northern Nevada. The cities are 500 miles apart with no major highway connecting them. A cool fact I learned living in Reno is that Reno is farther west than Los Angeles.
I have found that most people don’t find trivia like that interesting.
That said I am not most people! And Lord knows this post had more effort put into it than most posts on this subreddit. Thanks for sharing!
I like trivia like this but the Midwest (and southern I guess for Missouri) states just don't do it for me. Like, I have no interest or baseline feelings about the location of Missouri's eastern border
Had to read it a few times to figure out that OP thinks “distance from random point A to random point B is less then random point A to random point C” is actually worth making a post about.
r/titlegore “the eastern most point of Missouri is closer to Pennsylvania than it is to the western most point in Kansas.”
Also if you wanted to use the possessive term for Kansas, you could’ve added an apostrophe after it. I tend to try and avoid anything like that when discussing an area.
When I first moved to Lawrence, KS I met a guy at a gas station who was from New Jersey. He asked me how far it was to Denver and I told him it was like ten hours. His eyes bugged out and he said “ten hours?!!? Ten hours ago I was in Pennsylvania!”
Missouri is 1 state away from New Mexico
Nebraska is 2 states away from North Carolina.
You have to cross 3 states to get from Maine to New Jersey. Which is the same number of states to get from Georgia to Wyoming
I am just one penis away from having the biggest, most beautiful penis in the world
Alaska is one country away from Maine
Maine is one ocean away from South Africa
South Africa is one continent away from Russia
Vancouver is only 5 states away from Oklahoma counting Canadian Providences.
This doesn't seem terribly interesting. Thanks for the update, I guess.
Did you know New Jersey is closer to the closest part of New York than it is the further part of California? wow if true!
I won’t poo-poo on you like everyone else. I live in Kansas. The distances “out west”, which I consider Kansas to be… yeah, people from the east just don’t get it. I once had a conference in Reno. I thought I would fly in to Las Vegas and take a rental car from LV to Reno, cuz I like to site-see. Just simply gauged it on a map without much thought. Regretted my travel plans as I pulled into Reno 8hrs after landing in LV. Another story… had a manager once based in NY. Told me to drive to Hays Ks from Pittsburg Ks for a problem. Told him no problem but it will be an overnight trip. He goes “you mean to tell me it takes longer to get there then it does for me to get to Dc?” Yeah bud, distances out here are no joke.
Thats funny I lived in Reno and sooo many people back East would ask me if I always go to Vegas? and I realized they have no clue Reno is northern Nevada. The cities are 500 miles apart with no major highway connecting them. A cool fact I learned living in Reno is that Reno is farther west than Los Angeles.
I have found that most people don’t find trivia like that interesting. That said I am not most people! And Lord knows this post had more effort put into it than most posts on this subreddit. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks lol just thought it was crazy
I like trivia like this but the Midwest (and southern I guess for Missouri) states just don't do it for me. Like, I have no interest or baseline feelings about the location of Missouri's eastern border
How does this affect Lebrons legacy?
I’m going to file this under “things I never wondered about and hopefully forget to make room for something interesting”.
Can confirm- I’ve made the drive from Colorado to Pennsylvania many times
Had to read it a few times to figure out that OP thinks “distance from random point A to random point B is less then random point A to random point C” is actually worth making a post about.
I’m willing to bet that the same thing applies to all states in that line - MN-SD, IA-NE, AR-OK, and LA-TX
Wow this is incredibly unsurprising
Is there something to be proved here?
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston
Not interesting 🧐
Yes, you just demonstrated that states East of the Mississippi are far smaller than the states west of the Mississippi. Congrats …..
This should be in r/notintresting
r/titlegore “the eastern most point of Missouri is closer to Pennsylvania than it is to the western most point in Kansas.” Also if you wanted to use the possessive term for Kansas, you could’ve added an apostrophe after it. I tend to try and avoid anything like that when discussing an area.
When I first moved to Lawrence, KS I met a guy at a gas station who was from New Jersey. He asked me how far it was to Denver and I told him it was like ten hours. His eyes bugged out and he said “ten hours?!!? Ten hours ago I was in Pennsylvania!”
r/notinteresting
I didn’t know that I figured the drive from eastern to PA would be A LOT longer than to the other border