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stlmick t1_ja36z9w wrote

Reply to comment by kimar2z in TIFU by texting my ex-wife by LaVieEnRoseLavelle

Well I am from the midwest. When I was 23, I had a buddy who had never left the state border. We went to a different city on a road trip with our friends band. He was stoked. It was on our side of the city though. We offered to drive an extra 20 minutes but that wouldn't have counted so we didn't.

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kimar2z t1_ja39dsr wrote

Your poor friend hahaha. I know people like that! But in my case it's almost reasonable, because I live in Texas. You can pretty much drive all day and still be in Texas. Sometimes I think that Texas is inescapable and my presence here is a form of punishment for some atrocious sin I must have committed in a past life. Texas is suffering.

Then again, I went to Canada briefly as a child for my uncle's wedding. But I was like 3 years old and I only kinda remember it. It was in like 1999 too, so I didn't even need a passport to go. Kinda crazy looking back on it haha.

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Lexnal t1_ja3biw0 wrote

Texas is huge, I always found it funny that the state of Texas accounted for half of my drive to and from MN.

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HelenaBirkinBag t1_ja5abae wrote

That’s common in the Midwest but uncommon on the coasts. It’s cheaper for me to fly to Reykjavik than it is to LA. My children are teens and have traveled to Europe on four separate occasions, but they’ve never been to California. I went to uni in Ohio and it blew my mind how many people had never seen the ocean.

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