Thinking (semi-regular thought!) about conceptions of distance between the US and the UK, so copying over a thread from the bad place.
Not as in the "100 miles is a long way, 100 years is a long time" bit, but more how land is divided.
In the UK, you can never be more than 70m/113km from the Sea.
Not as in the "100 miles is a long way, 100 years is a long time" bit, but more how land is divided.
In the UK, you can never be more than 70m/113km from the Sea.
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I come from a middling-sized state (North Carolina), on the East Coast of the US. Rocky Mount is a city on our Coastal Plane, way out on the Eastern side of the state.
80% of the way to the ocean, or so.
It's 139m/224km from the sea.
Everything within a hundred miles of the ocean is the coast.
Oft-mocked rural accents, lower educational outcomes, lower earnings, more health problems, etc., etc.
The South in the US has 16 *states*. It's *920.1k* square miles. It has a population of ~129 million.