In the US, we definitely have sarcastic humor. The difference is that in the US, we include body language & vocal intonation (e.g. eye rolling, leering, snarling, speaking through teeth, over exasperated faux joy) to sarcastically express frustration, anger, & condescension in a humorous way. Whereas Brits tend towards deadpan sarcasm & with the various cultural, accent, pronunciation, & word choice differences will often fall flat as there seems to be far less body language & changes in vocal intonation in British sarcastic humor. As for soccer... Yes, absolutely loved playing it as a kid & teenager. As an adult spectator sport, I'd rather watch the grounds crew prep the pitch than the match itself.
Americans pronounce words differently from state to state even. That is one of the neat things about the states. It is so big and there are so many different ancestries in different areas.
The road trip one is very funny. I moved from England to Florida years ago and, while I didn't think you could do it in a day, I didn't realize just how big "BIG" really can be. For instance, from my house to the Keys (the other end of the state) it is well over 700 miles (1,100 km). That's the same distance as London to Edinburgh and almost back to London!
I live in central Florida and a 5 hour drive barely gets me to Georgia lol. Last road trip I took was to upstate NY and it took 2 days after a hotel stop. It’s absolutely insane compared to Europe.
Texas is 896 miles across Eye 10.... From Brownsville to the Oklahoma border it's over 1,000 miles ..... Go take a trip out west and see how beautiful and diverse this ole gal is!!
I remember going over differences in American and British humor in school. My English teacher at the time (70s - 80s) explained that British humor developed from being the best in the world. "The sun never sets on the British Empire" kind of thing. So your humor derived from taking what was extraordinary and treating it as normal or not worth noticing. Think the black knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail losing his arm and calling it a flesh wound. Whereas American humor derived from being the new kid on the block internationally, and from the courage it took to wander into the wild of the new unexplored nation. We took the tiniest, most insignificant things and made them colossal. In our stories we would make mosquitoes as big as lions in order to make the courage it took to wander out taken seriously. Think anything Jim Carrey has ever done. I'm not saying that is perfectly accurate, but I've always remembered his explanation that British humour makes the colossal insignificant and American humor makes the insignificant colossal.
I've also noticed that the British tend to be the butt of their own jokes more often. The best way I've heard this explained is through the scene from the movie Animal House where John Belushi came across a random guy playing an acoustic guitar at a party, grabbed the guitar, smashed it against the wall, handed it back to the guy, and walked away. The American comic would want to be John Belushi in that scene, where the British comic would want to be the guy with the guitar. At least that's how John Cleese put it.
As a Texan, I actually laughed out loud about driving across the US. Just take the state of Texas, from Texarkana to El Paso is 800+ miles, but if you ask us how far another city in Texas is, we will answer in "Hours", not miles. The the example I mentioned is, 12 hours of non-stop driving, so you better give yourself 14 to 15 hours for the trip. San Diego, Calif is actually closer to El Paso than Texarkana is (or even Galveston, TX). That means from El Paso, you can drive to the Pacific Ocean faster than you can to the Gulf of Mexico.
I live in Central Texas and my mom came out from Sierra Vista, AZ to visit. Took her longer to get here from El Paso than it did Sierra Vista to El Paso. A little over 4 hours Sierra Vista to El Paso. 8.5 hours from El Paso to here
I had some English friends that couldn't understand why we don't use miles when telling someone how far something is but rather in time. I live in South Carolina now but I'm from Rhode Island, it takes from where I live now 18 hrs of straight driving. To get from here to Maine is 24 of straight driving. It takes me 30 min to go into town where all the shops are, that is completely normal to drive 30 min and nobody in the US would think anything about it. The majority of Americans do not live within walking distance to grocery stores and shops everything is really spaced out even in the suburbs which is why cars are hugely important and i know for me personally even if public transport was everywhere i would choose not to use it, i like getting in my own car not crammed into a bus or train with a bunch of strangers and going wherever i want whenever i want. Many homes in the southern half of the US have pools, especially Florida where I lived for 6 years, yes almost everyone there does have an inground pool and usually with a massive screened area around it to keep critters out. On accents, funny story, my husband and I were vacationing in Maine and went out to some restaurant and while waiting for our table 4 older ladies were all talking, I knew right away where each was from by their accent and before that even I knew these were the classic true southern lady by hoe they were dressed and carried themselves. When they got up we asked where they were from, which was 2 from SC (where we live), Georgia, and my favorite Alabama. I laughed and told then I knew exactly where they were from by their accent. 😄 I used to enjoy my regular emails and video chats with a British family we became friends with, we loved to talk about the differences in our countries. They loved my frankness they would often tell me it was so refreshing, I guess it's something I would never notice as an American. We all got busy and lost touch but I need to see if they are still there.
Yes we answer in hours, when talking about driving in Florida-- 10 hours from Miami to Tallahassee (that's when the speed limit was 55, so it's probably 8 hours now??) , that sort of thing
I live in Orlando! YES! Most of us have pools! Very easy to maintain, there is some thing called pool school, someone will teach you how to maintain your pool! Very easy! My husband and I have been enjoying our pool for over 20 years!
I was born and raised in the US, but accents can get super complicated because of how so much of it has changed due to influences like TV, movies, and the internet. There are plenty of people here whose accent doesn't indicate at all which part of the country they're from.
When I was high school age, "British comedies" (think Terry Thomas or a young Peter Sellers) were shown in art houses but had a small but very enthusiastic fan base. Many Americans do appreciate British humor as the popularity now of certain TV shows demonstrates. It's just that our own domestic humor tends to be a little less subtle. If you aren't familiar do check out pubs like The Onion or The Babylon Bee. And in the past there was Mad Magazine and assorted college humor magazines.
Growing up in SoCal, my family's Thanksgiving tradition was to drive up to the north Central Valley to visit my aunt and uncle, which is a 6 hour trip. It's a long drive, sure, but at the end of it, we're still in the same state and we're not even close to the border to Oregon. California is like a thousand miles from the southern borer to the northern border (over 1200 km).
Yeah that's my home area lol. I have lived all over the 530. From Sutter county to Lassen county. Getting to LA was the longest I've ever been in a car and I used to take weekend trips to Reno, Nevada lol
Just to really highlight Laurence's statement, I took a bus from California to Oregon one state away and it took 23 hours. A car would have been faster because there are less stops but I'll never take a bus long distance again
Talking about road trips, anything under 4 hours could be a "day trip" which means you drive somewhere , spend the day, then drive back home that night. It's especially true for 1-3hour drives. For example my family lives 2-3 hours from us. We drove 2 hours to get to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving. We were there for 3 hours. Then we drove home. And we weren't the only ones, a few others were 2hrs away too. And another cousin drove 4 hours from out of state, and still drove home the same day. Usually people will swap drivers though, my cousin drove to Thanksgiving so her husband drove them back. I love about 2 hours from the beach and in my early 20s my friends and I took day trips all the time.
Another thing about this, pools in the 70s-80s were way way more popular to have as a middle-class status symbol, but have become less-so and are now more for the actual wealthy.
For our summer road trip from Philadelphia to Cape Cod it takes about 6 hours. (PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA) ⚽️ I am just happy the US men made it as far as they did. Good luck to 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷⚽️
Yeah, as many people have said, we're much more used to long road trips here. I grew up driving from Oregon to Minnesota in 3-4 days to visit my grandparents, driving for roughly 8 or 9 hours a day, spending my entire 2 or 3-month summer there, then driving for 3 or 4 days back. And that's only half-way across the US.
I took a bus from California to New York (state not city) in 3 days. I was up in Oneida for 2 weeks. I believe that's between Buffalo and Syracuse. Only did it once and it's the only time over traveled farther than Nevada. Been to Oregon for some obsidian mining, but that was for a week and a half at most. Those people were super sketchy and didn't like to pay their friends, so I was shocked when I got paid barely half what I was owed. I expected them to rip me off completely lol
Wisconsin has more than one accent, I think most states do. Where I live in Milwaukee, the accent is more/dialect more like Chicago. Along the Mississippi the accent is more like the one you hear in the movie Fargo. Northeastern it's a bit different. Wisconsin has been settle by Native Americans, French, Irish, German, Swiss,..... So the accents from region to region do vary.
Minnesota is the exact same. We did and sometimes have our minnesota accent. But I havent heard one in a long long time. We do sorta fall back into our accent ive heard but its pretty soft.
I live on an Appalachian mountainside, so no pool. In the valley below me, some properties have subterranean caves and sections where limestone striations meet, so cannot excavate for a pool or risk a sinkhole. So, a few have in-ground pools, but it is not the norm.
Doing a road trip from Miami to New York is near impossible without stopping. It takes a full 24 hours to get to New York. Most don’t bother instead people stop in Williamsburg, Virginia or somewhere in the mountains for the night but Williamsburg is the better choice as Busch gardens and colonial Williamsburg is there. After that you start to learn you have to contend with Philadelphia traffic into Washington DC traffic all the way up to New York dealing with the holland tunnel which is a traffic nightmare. Basically you don’t want to drive in New York City then coming back down is a problem. This is why planes are better long distance.
I live in south Alabama and when petrol was cheap I would drive to New Mexico the byways are excellent, but the west is very rural. The roadways have rest areas every 50-100 miles. When I pulled into a rest stop in New Mexico, I was greeted by two portapotties and a sign saying beware of rattlesnakes.
The whole thing with soccer/football is that we have many more sports to focus on, like; football, basketball, hockey, and baseball. So soccer tends to get squeezed out of the conversation.
I live in PA and I think you'll find community pools are far more popular and common than individual pools. Many communities have rec centers and YMCAs. I live 13 hours from my family. That's a day drive to us.
I live in southern NH and I have a swimming pool, but its used for only 2-3 months of the whole year. Rest of the time it's covered up so really, idk why we have a pool but we do. With the soccer one, I played soccer for 10 years for my town but then had to stop due to a sprained ankle, but I've found that kids usually play for travel teams and recreation teams and then just kind of stop when they reach college. I know none of my former teammates who have gone on to continue. It's all football, baseball, or basketball. Was really cool to hear more about these myths!! Also you both and Laurence should definitely collab one of these days! It would be awesome to see you three together!!
I live in New Jersey, my brother was in college at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colorado. He and a fellow cadet drove the cadet's Corvette from Coloado to NJ in 25hrs, with a stop to replace the car battery. My brother said they dropped below 125 miles per hour when the hit Eastern Ohio....
I liked the conversation about accents. When I listen to you two, James has a very different accent, one that I have to work to understand sometimes. Millie's has the more guteral sound, where "T"s tend to come from the throat. There is a name for that accent, but I just can't remember what it is. As for American accents, every part of the US has a different accent. Areas with very distinctive accents are Boston (pak ya cah at Haved Yad); The NYC boroughs; Baltimore with Bawlmorese; Appalachian accents; southern Virginia and the Carolinas; the south in general; mid-America which is very plain; Southwest with lots of Hispanic influence. The west coast is known more for their phraseology than accents.
To visit my grandparents in Florida (starting in Alabama), I'd be looking at like a 10-12-hour drive. I've made that trip many times in my life. We never stop to rest in a hotel or anything like that. We only stop for food and bathroom breaks.
Pools are in ground not usually above and they are a LOT of work. It's a pain in the backside! I used to live in Raleigh North Carolina and my parents lived in Dallas Texas. The best time I ever did was 17 hours, usually a 22 hour drive. Secret, McDonald's has the cleanest bathroom. Stop go to the bathroom get a soda and off you go until the next need for the bathroom. Going across the state of Texas from east to west going 70mph will take you 12 to 13 HOURS to cross the State.
No, women’s soccer is not huge over here. It’s kind of like men’s. It’s just that our women’s team has been very successful. NFL, NBA, and MLB still rule !
I think there are areas of the country where soccer - both men and women’s - is quite popular. Full pro-team stadiums and mad fans. I think soccer is also popular for kids now.
I've got to admit that, as both an American and a southerner, that I find all sports equally boring, tedious and dull. It just feels like, "Oh, wow, they sure move that ball around in basically the same way thousands of times." If you like sports, more power to you; enjoy. But it surely doesn't hold my attention.
As I mentioned on another video, Laurence's experience with mostly other English immigrants watching soccer is just his experience because the US has a huge Latin American population who watches soccer religiously. It's the same with African Americans (1st or 2nd gen immigrants) and European Americans (also 1st or 2nd gen on the east coast). I grew up in the south and Mexican restaurants and bars would be packed with people watching soccer and Telemundo plays every major soccer league around the world. It's not as big as the big 4 in terms of fan bases but it's getting even more popular and I think people should give more credit to Latinos because they're very much part of this country and talk about soccer as enthusiastically as anyone else would talk about their favorite sport.
We African Americans are past being 1st and 2nd immigrants. Do not conflate an African immigrant as being African American. Doing so is egregiously disingenuous, and highly dismissively disrespectful to my ethnic group. Those from the continent are called by their origin of country prior to being called American. Example my Nigerian friends refer to themselves as Nigerian American.
Living in Florida, it takes 12.5 hours to drive from Key West, Florida to Pensacola Florida without stopping. So most of the day just to leave the State.
Both my kids were in travel hockey, so we did A LOT of driving most weekends. It took us 5 hours to drive from central Ohio to the west side of Chicago. But we would also drive to Nashville TN or Buffalo NY (6 hrs), Philadelphia PA or Rochester NY (7 hrs), and Boston MA (flew for that one!!). 3 hour trips seemed to be the norm for Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Although I miss watching them play, I’m glad to stay home! Regarding American accents, The Georgian accent is one of my favorites. I was raised by Midwestern parents, and grew up in IN, IL, NY, and NJ. When I came out to Ohio for college, I was often told, “but you don’t have a Jersey accent”. Not all people from New Jersey sound like extras from The Sopranos!
I am glad he said what he said @ 14:33. Myself, being from the Northeast. New England (New Hampshire) All around in different areas people have different accents and even words for the same thing. Vermonters, Bostonians, New Yorkers, Mainiacs (Maine) and now I live in Florida and dont even want to go into that. Y'all.
To put the road trip thing into perspective, there is a map that shows the shortest route to drive to 48 state capitals (excluding Hawaii and Alaska), which is more than 13,100 miles. If you drive that at 65 mph (105 kph), continuously, without stopping for gas, fuel, or sleep, 24 hours a day, it would take you 8.5 days. The 48 contiguous states are more than twice the size of the E.U. The reason that most Americans only speak English is that we can travel throughout an area twice the size of Europe and not learn a second language (And then visit Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales if we get bored.)
A straight trip from east coast to west in a car is going to run you 4-5 days minimum.. At least if you want to get a good nights rest...but you will miss a ton along the way.
I lived 5 hours away from home when I was in college. I would drive home for the weekend. I would leave around noon on Friday, get home Friday evening, stay for Saturday, leave Sunday around noon get home Sunday early evening. That was a normal weekend. 5 hour trip was no big deal
I live in California and by no means do most people in CA own a pool. However, it may be more common in Southern CA where it is relatively hot all year.
you tend to get used to long road trips, depending on where you live. when i was living in louisiana and my family was in new york, a friend and i would drive home for holidays. took about 19-20 hours straight through. we would just trade off driving and stop every couple hours to stretch our legs. it was a lot of fun, actually. and i’ve made the trip from virginia to nevada a few times. then again, where i live in western new york, i drive an hour each way to work on a good day. if there’s snow… 🤦🏼♀️
Honestly, it's more fun watching our truck rust than it is watching a European football game. 🤣 We did enjoy Rugby whilst living in Scotland, though. As far as English football, we laughed when the Scottish used to quip .... "What's the difference between the England team and a tea bag? The tea bag stays in the cup longer." 😉 You guys are so much fun to watch. It also helps us to keep my ear tuned to English accents. 😇
Texan here. I remember when I first learned that adults play Soccer in other countries: I found it adorable. Lawrence's channel is great, though I've found his generalizations about America are actually very centered around midwestern states. Ironically, many midwesterners I've met would insist that everyone on the continent is exactly like them, so he's in good company.
As hard as it is to believe, there ARE swimming pools in Alaska as well!!! In the suburbs of the city of Fairbanks you will see backyard swimming pools if you use Google Earth. The reason is that in its very brief summer, it gets down right hot there.
I had a pool in Arizona. It does take some work. The chlorine to keep down the algae, the pH to protect your eyes, and control algae, had to turn on the sprayer to cool the water, several types of pool bottom cleaners, pool filters you can choose from, skimmers. Still enjoyed them!.
To most Americans it’s great if the USA soccer team wins but if they lose we forget about it immediately. That said, there are many devoted soccer fans in the U.S. too.
I recall a trip for the Army across southern Louisiana. We had to make dozens of stops and interact with gas stations and restaurants as part of the advance party mission. There were nuances between the Acadian accents and then we crossed an invisible line and the traditional southern accents started. The guy with me was from Abbeville and was totally thrown.
Soccer/football is becoming a very popular sport at the amateur level--school and club teams. The big difference is at the professional level which is not a big thing here except among its small enthusiastic fan base.
“Whoever said that’s only a day and a half of driving”, Um, my dad when we were kids. We lived in Southern Florida and our family lived up North in North Carolina and West Virginia. Granted, it was a 24 hour drive but it often lasted 2 days and we did that twice a year
Lisa Rose-Hawkins 0 seconds ago I lived in England for 4 years, out in a little village not far (in American thought) from London. We were going to London for the first time and we’re pretty excited and while talking to our fellow villagers, we learn that most of them have never left their village (10 square miles). To say we were flabbergasted would be an understatement. I commented that “y’all can’t be serious, London is literally less than an hour away, you mean you’ve never been to buckingham palace”, where one neighbor piped up and queried “well how many times have you been to the statue of liberty?” What ensued was this Texan explaining to 1/2 the village how London was within 1 hour of our village, while the SOL was a 33 HOUR drive from where my home in Texas is to Liberty Island, how you can’t even drive the longest distance in Texas in less than 18 hours and how Texas alone can encompass England, Scotland, Ireland AND Wales THREE TIMES OVER with room to spare. They were pretty shocked to hear the numbers and later that year, 3 families (who had never left the village) LEFT THE VILLAGE to join us in a July 4th shindig at the Military base 30 miles away.
In North Carolina there's the farmer accent of Chatham County "the wheat field is getting right yaller (yellow) down yonder", the coastal accent, Mountain hillbilly and the Foghorn Leghorn Fritz Hollings accent that borders South Carolina. Maryland has the Baltimore, the hillbilly, Southern, and Coastal. And Maryland is a very small state.
Love southern usage of yonder... Distance & direction need not apply. 15yrs in the Carolinas, yonder has been said to me or in my ear shot, to be a appx 1ft in any or every direction to a couple houses away, few streets away, town or county away, & at least once to mean East Tennessee when I was at the time in this person's house in eastern Cleveland County, NC.
I'm in my 70s and I played soccer in California in my high school (1967) against many of the local high schools in the area. Although I knew nothing of the game when I started. I only knew you couldn't touch the ball with your hands
even 80mph highways it takes forever lol and once you hit highschool.. UK football or soccer no one really cares unless you are from another country and here then it is huge.
A lot of Americans DO have swimming pools. I live in Houston, Texas, and I'm looking at Google Maps satellite view of the houses on my street. There are 26 houses, and 9 of them having in-ground swimming pools. So roughly 1 in 3 houses on my street has swimming pools. And I don't live in some super rich area.. I would describe it as "upper middle class".
I live in New Jersey, one of the smallest states in the country. But, it still took a 2 hour drive to get to my grandmother's house, in Northern New Jersey.
5 hours max lol. I moved away from home and I’m that far, my sister lives 13 hours away from me. 18 hours away from home(we call home our parents house) I never thought about how y’all could travel the country in a day. I guess I just assumed every country is like America.
Lost in the pond is one of the first youtubers i started following just over a year ago and the new zeland faimaly just before their first thanksgiving dinner and then a bunch of you just a few days later and you i check out all of you daily
I'll address humor. New employee work humor is non-existent, Passing somebody on the street or in a shop unheard-of. After we get to know each other comes the banter. I'm sure somebody will chime in.
I live in Georgia and to visit my grandmother in Mississippi, it takes at least 8 hours on the road. And having to remind the men in the family that the women have to use the restroom. Men really are the ones who think “I can do the drive in one go” because they hold their bladders! Lol 😅
Only 8. Try 11 from southern Indiana to Northern Michigan. That was my every summer when we went to see my grandpa. Dad basically would give you 1 coke apiece, a bag of doritos to split between 3 people and an order of silence until spoken to.
@@aaronburdon221 my trips to tennesse to see family were about the same coming from northern Indiana. My dad would be furious if we needed to pee outside any gas station fillups or lunch. I remember many times peeing on the side of the interstate as a kid in the woods cuz the old man didn’t wanna waste time lmao
When I was 11 y/o my family moved from San Diego California to Jacksonville Florida it a week and a day with bathroom breaks, meal breaks, gas station stops and hotel stay every night so yeah we are a massive country
We have banter in the southern USA, but when I moved to the Midwest everyone called me a dick 😂 I had to hold myself back a lot. It was hard. I left quickly.
My favorite British humor is the Johnny English movies. I don't care for going to the movies, but the 3rd installment was the only movie I thought about seeing at the theaters since 2011. Haha
As an American, I say if you aren't spending over 6 hours in a car round trip, are you even taking a drive? 1 hour is a quick stop at the mall lol. 6 hours sees my nieces. 8 gets me close to Mexico or Canada
It takes 36 hours to drive from central PA to El Paso, TX, we make that drive 2-3 times a year.. that’s going straight through. Another piece of info, it is faster to drive from El Paso, Tx to San Diego, CA than it is to drive from El Paso, TX to Houston, TX.. I laugh when someone thinks driving an hour is a long time..
5:50 I moved my family from San Diego, California to Harrisonburg, Virginia. I flew my wife and children ahead to get settled. I rented a trailer and drove our remaining household goods. it took me 3 days of just driving and sleeping. It was a loooong trip.
I am in Southern California. It takes me 4 to 5 hours to drive to Las Vegas Nevada depending on traffic. it takes about 8 hours for me to drive from near Los Angeles, to Sequoia National Forest. Which are both in California. And that is only a quarter way up the state. It takes days to drive from Southern California to Northern California.
Many houses have pools in the south. In my rural area in Georgia, we go swimming in creeks and lakes. You have to be able to cool off or face heat strokes🎉
I'm a truck driver and I'll drive 10 or 11 hours in a day and that's for work. Not counting the 2hrs it took to get loaded or unloaded. Mind you that's not everyday but some weeks it 70 plus hours a week
If you travel interstate highways you WILL run into construction and sometimes accidents that will slow everything down to a crawl and add time to your travels Growing up there were so many accents in New Orleans that you could tell which neighborhood people were from because each one was a little different
I agree with you on soccer (football). However, my daughter has played since she was 8. She's now 35 and a mother, and that girl plays hard on co-ed teams (men and women). She's 5ft 1 inches and has taken out men over 6 ft tall.
In the US, we definitely have sarcastic humor. The difference is that in the US, we include body language & vocal intonation (e.g. eye rolling, leering, snarling, speaking through teeth, over exasperated faux joy) to sarcastically express frustration, anger, & condescension in a humorous way. Whereas Brits tend towards deadpan sarcasm & with the various cultural, accent, pronunciation, & word choice differences will often fall flat as there seems to be far less body language & changes in vocal intonation in British sarcastic humor.
As for soccer... Yes, absolutely loved playing it as a kid & teenager. As an adult spectator sport, I'd rather watch the grounds crew prep the pitch than the match itself.
Americans pronounce words differently from state to state even. That is one of the neat things about the states. It is so big and there are so many different ancestries in different areas.
The road trip one is very funny. I moved from England to Florida years ago and, while I didn't think you could do it in a day, I didn't realize just how big "BIG" really can be. For instance, from my house to the Keys (the other end of the state) it is well over 700 miles (1,100 km). That's the same distance as London to Edinburgh and almost back to London!
please post your address and i'll send you a medal 😆
I live in central Florida and a 5 hour drive barely gets me to Georgia lol. Last road trip I took was to upstate NY and it took 2 days after a hotel stop. It’s absolutely insane compared to Europe.
Texas is 896 miles across Eye 10.... From Brownsville to the Oklahoma border it's over 1,000 miles ..... Go take a trip out west and see how beautiful and diverse this ole gal is!!
I remember going over differences in American and British humor in school. My English teacher at the time (70s - 80s) explained that British humor developed from being the best in the world. "The sun never sets on the British Empire" kind of thing. So your humor derived from taking what was extraordinary and treating it as normal or not worth noticing. Think the black knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail losing his arm and calling it a flesh wound. Whereas American humor derived from being the new kid on the block internationally, and from the courage it took to wander into the wild of the new unexplored nation. We took the tiniest, most insignificant things and made them colossal. In our stories we would make mosquitoes as big as lions in order to make the courage it took to wander out taken seriously. Think anything Jim Carrey has ever done.
I'm not saying that is perfectly accurate, but I've always remembered his explanation that British humour makes the colossal insignificant and American humor makes the insignificant colossal.
I've also noticed that the British tend to be the butt of their own jokes more often. The best way I've heard this explained is through the scene from the movie Animal House where John Belushi came across a random guy playing an acoustic guitar at a party, grabbed the guitar, smashed it against the wall, handed it back to the guy, and walked away. The American comic would want to be John Belushi in that scene, where the British comic would want to be the guy with the guitar. At least that's how John Cleese put it.
As a Texan, I actually laughed out loud about driving across the US. Just take the state of Texas, from Texarkana to El Paso is 800+ miles, but if you ask us how far another city in Texas is, we will answer in "Hours", not miles. The the example I mentioned is, 12 hours of non-stop driving, so you better give yourself 14 to 15 hours for the trip. San Diego, Calif is actually closer to El Paso than Texarkana is (or even Galveston, TX). That means from El Paso, you can drive to the Pacific Ocean faster than you can to the Gulf of Mexico.
I live in Central Texas and my mom came out from Sierra Vista, AZ to visit. Took her longer to get here from El Paso than it did Sierra Vista to El Paso. A little over 4 hours Sierra Vista to El Paso. 8.5 hours from El Paso to here
Florida too. my hometown of Houston is closer to Destin than Destin to Miami.
I had some English friends that couldn't understand why we don't use miles when telling someone how far something is but rather in time. I live in South Carolina now but I'm from Rhode Island, it takes from where I live now 18 hrs of straight driving. To get from here to Maine is 24 of straight driving. It takes me 30 min to go into town where all the shops are, that is completely normal to drive 30 min and nobody in the US would think anything about it. The majority of Americans do not live within walking distance to grocery stores and shops everything is really spaced out even in the suburbs which is why cars are hugely important and i know for me personally even if public transport was everywhere i would choose not to use it, i like getting in my own car not crammed into a bus or train with a bunch of strangers and going wherever i want whenever i want. Many homes in the southern half of the US have pools, especially Florida where I lived for 6 years, yes almost everyone there does have an inground pool and usually with a massive screened area around it to keep critters out. On accents, funny story, my husband and I were vacationing in Maine and went out to some restaurant and while waiting for our table 4 older ladies were all talking, I knew right away where each was from by their accent and before that even I knew these were the classic true southern lady by hoe they were dressed and carried themselves. When they got up we asked where they were from, which was 2 from SC (where we live), Georgia, and my favorite Alabama. I laughed and told then I knew exactly where they were from by their accent. 😄
I used to enjoy my regular emails and video chats with a British family we became friends with, we loved to talk about the differences in our countries. They loved my frankness they would often tell me it was so refreshing, I guess it's something I would never notice as an American. We all got busy and lost touch but I need to see if they are still there.
Yes we answer in hours, when talking about driving in Florida-- 10 hours from Miami to Tallahassee (that's when the speed limit was 55, so it's probably 8 hours now??) , that sort of thing
(RE: El Paso to Galveston) - heck, you'll lose a day just trying to go through Houston.
I live in Orlando! YES! Most of us have pools! Very easy to maintain, there is some thing called pool school, someone will teach you how to maintain your pool! Very easy! My husband and I have been enjoying our pool for over 20 years!
I was born and raised in the US, but accents can get super complicated because of how so much of it has changed due to influences like TV, movies, and the internet. There are plenty of people here whose accent doesn't indicate at all which part of the country they're from.
I feel as if our accents have moved to our words. You can tell roughly where someone is with the words they use. But its really difficult
When I was high school age, "British comedies" (think Terry Thomas or a young Peter Sellers) were shown in art houses but had a small but very enthusiastic fan base. Many Americans do appreciate British humor as the popularity now of certain TV shows demonstrates. It's just that our own domestic humor tends to be a little less subtle. If you aren't familiar do check out pubs like The Onion or The Babylon Bee. And in the past there was Mad Magazine and assorted college humor magazines.
Growing up in SoCal, my family's Thanksgiving tradition was to drive up to the north Central Valley to visit my aunt and uncle, which is a 6 hour trip. It's a long drive, sure, but at the end of it, we're still in the same state and we're not even close to the border to Oregon. California is like a thousand miles from the southern borer to the northern border (over 1200 km).
Yep an at least California has freeways.
I'vr driven from LA to Vancouver, Canada and it takes forever to get out of California!!
Yeah that's my home area lol. I have lived all over the 530. From Sutter county to Lassen county. Getting to LA was the longest I've ever been in a car and I used to take weekend trips to Reno, Nevada lol
Just to really highlight Laurence's statement, I took a bus from California to Oregon one state away and it took 23 hours. A car would have been faster because there are less stops but I'll never take a bus long distance again
North to south you could drive it all in a day. I drove from Detroit Michigan to Alexandria Louisiana in 25 hours without stopping overnight.
What the world needs to also understand is that we are taught to speak up and use our voice from a young age.
People in the United Kingdom usually go straight for the southern accent when someone tells them to do an American accent, It’s hilarious.
I remember once years ago, flying over Arizona (landing there) and there were so many yards where you can see pools in them.
With the 120F (+- 10 degrees) summer days in Arizona, it's almost necessary to have a pool. 🏜
@@jreyman as someone who lives in Arizona I highly agree
Talking about road trips, anything under 4 hours could be a "day trip" which means you drive somewhere , spend the day, then drive back home that night. It's especially true for 1-3hour drives. For example my family lives 2-3 hours from us. We drove 2 hours to get to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving. We were there for 3 hours. Then we drove home. And we weren't the only ones, a few others were 2hrs away too. And another cousin drove 4 hours from out of state, and still drove home the same day. Usually people will swap drivers though, my cousin drove to Thanksgiving so her husband drove them back. I love about 2 hours from the beach and in my early 20s my friends and I took day trips all the time.
“Pools are holes in the ground in which you pile money”. An American phrase
Another thing about this, pools in the 70s-80s were way way more popular to have as a middle-class status symbol, but have become less-so and are now more for the actual wealthy.
For our summer road trip from Philadelphia to Cape Cod it takes about 6 hours. (PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA)
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Yeah, as many people have said, we're much more used to long road trips here. I grew up driving from Oregon to Minnesota in 3-4 days to visit my grandparents, driving for roughly 8 or 9 hours a day, spending my entire 2 or 3-month summer there, then driving for 3 or 4 days back. And that's only half-way across the US.
I took a bus from California to New York (state not city) in 3 days. I was up in Oneida for 2 weeks. I believe that's between Buffalo and Syracuse. Only did it once and it's the only time over traveled farther than Nevada. Been to Oregon for some obsidian mining, but that was for a week and a half at most. Those people were super sketchy and didn't like to pay their friends, so I was shocked when I got paid barely half what I was owed. I expected them to rip me off completely lol
Wisconsin has more than one accent, I think most states do. Where I live in Milwaukee, the accent is more/dialect more like Chicago. Along the Mississippi the accent is more like the one you hear in the movie Fargo. Northeastern it's a bit different. Wisconsin has been settle by Native Americans, French, Irish, German, Swiss,..... So the accents from region to region do vary.
Minnesota is the exact same. We did and sometimes have our minnesota accent. But I havent heard one in a long long time. We do sorta fall back into our accent ive heard but its pretty soft.
I live on an Appalachian mountainside, so no pool. In the valley below me, some properties have subterranean caves and sections where limestone striations meet, so cannot excavate for a pool or risk a sinkhole. So, a few have in-ground pools, but it is not the norm.
Doing a road trip from Miami to New York is near impossible without stopping. It takes a full 24 hours to get to New York. Most don’t bother instead people stop in Williamsburg, Virginia or somewhere in the mountains for the night but Williamsburg is the better choice as Busch gardens and colonial Williamsburg is there. After that you start to learn you have to contend with Philadelphia traffic into Washington DC traffic all the way up to New York dealing with the holland tunnel which is a traffic nightmare. Basically you don’t want to drive in New York City then coming back down is a problem. This is why planes are better long distance.
Drove from philly to miami this summer. I stopped somewhere in south carolina on the way.
I live in south Alabama and when petrol was cheap I would drive to New Mexico the byways are excellent, but the west is very rural. The roadways have rest areas every 50-100 miles. When I pulled into a rest stop in New Mexico, I was greeted by two portapotties and a sign saying beware of rattlesnakes.
Yeah those rest areas pretty helpful.
The whole thing with soccer/football is that we have many more sports to focus on, like; football, basketball, hockey, and baseball. So soccer tends to get squeezed out of the conversation.
It depends on the state, and it depends on the value of the house. Nearly all houses that would be considered expensive for the area have pools.
I live in PA and I think you'll find community pools are far more popular and common than individual pools. Many communities have rec centers and YMCAs.
I live 13 hours from my family. That's a day drive to us.
I live in southern NH and I have a swimming pool, but its used for only 2-3 months of the whole year. Rest of the time it's covered up so really, idk why we have a pool but we do. With the soccer one, I played soccer for 10 years for my town but then had to stop due to a sprained ankle, but I've found that kids usually play for travel teams and recreation teams and then just kind of stop when they reach college. I know none of my former teammates who have gone on to continue. It's all football, baseball, or basketball. Was really cool to hear more about these myths!!
Also you both and Laurence should definitely collab one of these days! It would be awesome to see you three together!!
I live in New Jersey, my brother was in college at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colorado. He and a fellow cadet drove the cadet's Corvette from Coloado to NJ in 25hrs, with a stop to replace the car battery. My brother said they dropped below 125 miles per hour when the hit Eastern Ohio....
People have pools across the entire US not just where its warm. I live in New Jersey and we had over 105 this summer.
I live in Austin Texas, which is central in the state area. To drive from the western tip to Austin takes about 8 to 9 hours depending on traffic.
I liked the conversation about accents. When I listen to you two, James has a very different accent, one that I have to work to understand sometimes. Millie's has the more guteral sound, where "T"s tend to come from the throat. There is a name for that accent, but I just can't remember what it is.
As for American accents, every part of the US has a different accent. Areas with very distinctive accents are Boston (pak ya cah at Haved Yad); The NYC boroughs; Baltimore with Bawlmorese; Appalachian accents; southern Virginia and the Carolinas; the south in general; mid-America which is very plain; Southwest with lots of Hispanic influence. The west coast is known more for their phraseology than accents.
To visit my grandparents in Florida (starting in Alabama), I'd be looking at like a 10-12-hour drive.
I've made that trip many times in my life. We never stop to rest in a hotel or anything like that. We only stop for food and bathroom breaks.
I saw the post about Millie not feeling well. It looks like she's feeling a little better now. I hope she will be all better soon. 😊
Pools are in ground not usually above and they are a LOT of work. It's a pain in the backside! I used to live in Raleigh North Carolina and my parents lived in Dallas Texas. The best time I ever did was 17 hours, usually a 22 hour drive. Secret, McDonald's has the cleanest bathroom. Stop go to the bathroom get a soda and off you go until the next need for the bathroom. Going across the state of Texas from east to west going 70mph will take you 12 to 13 HOURS to cross the State.
James and Mille, here is the stat for swimming pools in the US. 10.4 million residential pools. 333m people or 1 in 32 people has a pool.❤
No, women’s soccer is not huge over here. It’s kind of like men’s. It’s just that our women’s team has been very successful. NFL, NBA, and MLB still rule !
I agree. Women's soccer is only seen more here because they've won cups. Most people couldn't care less about either men's or women's.
You forgot NHL.
I think there are areas of the country where soccer - both men and women’s - is quite popular. Full pro-team stadiums and mad fans. I think soccer is also popular for kids now.
I've got to admit that, as both an American and a southerner, that I find all sports equally boring, tedious and dull. It just feels like, "Oh, wow, they sure move that ball around in basically the same way thousands of times." If you like sports, more power to you; enjoy. But it surely doesn't hold my attention.
College football is my favorite ❤️
As I mentioned on another video, Laurence's experience with mostly other English immigrants watching soccer is just his experience because the US has a huge Latin American population who watches soccer religiously. It's the same with African Americans (1st or 2nd gen immigrants) and European Americans (also 1st or 2nd gen on the east coast). I grew up in the south and Mexican restaurants and bars would be packed with people watching soccer and Telemundo plays every major soccer league around the world. It's not as big as the big 4 in terms of fan bases but it's getting even more popular and I think people should give more credit to Latinos because they're very much part of this country and talk about soccer as enthusiastically as anyone else would talk about their favorite sport.
We African Americans are past being 1st and 2nd immigrants. Do not conflate an African immigrant as being African American. Doing so is egregiously disingenuous, and highly dismissively disrespectful to my ethnic group. Those from the continent are called by their origin of country prior to being called American. Example my Nigerian friends refer to themselves as Nigerian American.
Living in Florida, it takes 12.5 hours to drive from Key West, Florida to Pensacola Florida without stopping. So most of the day just to leave the State.
Both my kids were in travel hockey, so we did A LOT of driving most weekends. It took us 5 hours to drive from central Ohio to the west side of Chicago. But we would also drive to Nashville TN or Buffalo NY (6 hrs), Philadelphia PA or Rochester NY (7 hrs), and Boston MA (flew for that one!!). 3 hour trips seemed to be the norm for Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Although I miss watching them play, I’m glad to stay home!
Regarding American accents, The Georgian accent is one of my favorites. I was raised by Midwestern parents, and grew up in IN, IL, NY, and NJ. When I came out to Ohio for college, I was often told, “but you don’t have a Jersey accent”. Not all people from New Jersey sound like extras from The Sopranos!
I am glad he said what he said @ 14:33. Myself, being from the Northeast. New England (New Hampshire) All around in different areas people have different accents and even words for the same thing. Vermonters, Bostonians, New Yorkers, Mainiacs (Maine) and now I live in Florida and dont even want to go into that. Y'all.
I live in NJ, just 20 minutes from NYC. I have a pool.
To put the road trip thing into perspective, there is a map that shows the shortest route to drive to 48 state capitals (excluding Hawaii and Alaska), which is more than 13,100 miles. If you drive that at 65 mph (105 kph), continuously, without stopping for gas, fuel, or sleep, 24 hours a day, it would take you 8.5 days. The 48 contiguous states are more than twice the size of the E.U.
The reason that most Americans only speak English is that we can travel throughout an area twice the size of Europe and not learn a second language (And then visit Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales if we get bored.)
A straight trip from east coast to west in a car is going to run you 4-5 days minimum.. At least if you want to get a good nights rest...but you will miss a ton along the way.
I lived 5 hours away from home when I was in college. I would drive home for the weekend. I would leave around noon on Friday, get home Friday evening, stay for Saturday, leave Sunday around noon get home Sunday early evening. That was a normal weekend. 5 hour trip was no big deal
I live in California and by no means do most people in CA own a pool. However, it may be more common in Southern CA where it is relatively hot all year.
you tend to get used to long road trips, depending on where you live. when i was living in louisiana and my family was in new york, a friend and i would drive home for holidays. took about 19-20 hours straight through. we would just trade off driving and stop every couple hours to stretch our legs. it was a lot of fun, actually. and i’ve made the trip from virginia to nevada a few times.
then again, where i live in western new york, i drive an hour each way to work on a good day. if there’s snow… 🤦🏼♀️
9 hours driving to my closest family (and I'm in the next state). Peace, Love!!
Honestly, it's more fun watching our truck rust than it is watching a European football game. 🤣 We did enjoy Rugby whilst living in Scotland, though. As far as English football, we laughed when the Scottish used to quip .... "What's the difference between the England team and a tea bag? The tea bag stays in the cup longer." 😉 You guys are so much fun to watch. It also helps us to keep my ear tuned to English accents. 😇
In Kentucky, we have an Eastern KY accent, Western KY accent, Central KY accent, Southern KY accent and a Northern KY accent. Lol
I grew up in Indiana, and I had a pool growing up all the neighborhood. Kids were jealous because I was the only one who had one.
Texan here. I remember when I first learned that adults play Soccer in other countries: I found it adorable.
Lawrence's channel is great, though I've found his generalizations about America are actually very centered around midwestern states. Ironically, many midwesterners I've met would insist that everyone on the continent is exactly like them, so he's in good company.
As hard as it is to believe, there ARE swimming pools in Alaska as well!!! In the suburbs of the city of Fairbanks you will see backyard swimming pools if you use Google Earth. The reason is that in its very brief summer, it gets down right hot there.
Contact driving...if you are going the speed limit which varies depending upon population
Constant not contact driving
I had a pool in Arizona. It does take some work. The chlorine to keep down the algae, the pH to protect your eyes, and control algae, had to turn on the sprayer to cool the water, several types of pool bottom cleaners, pool filters you can choose from, skimmers. Still enjoyed them!.
Where Im from you can't even get out the city in a day. Traffic is a nightmare
Pools can be a huge expense if you get one get checked out
A pool is a lovely thing to have if you have the funds to up-keep it.
My first reaction to soccer being touchy was confusion then I was like oh is that “big soccer thing” going on now. Lol
To most Americans it’s great if the USA soccer team wins but if they lose we forget about it immediately. That said, there are many devoted soccer fans in the U.S. too.
From Salt Lake City to Kansas City is 16 hour drive. I’d make it in one day. Non stop driving.
I live in northeast Georgia, and in the County I live in their are 7 different southern accents, not counting other American accents.
I recall a trip for the Army across southern Louisiana. We had to make dozens of stops and interact with gas stations and restaurants as part of the advance party mission.
There were nuances between the Acadian accents and then we crossed an invisible line and the traditional southern accents started.
The guy with me was from Abbeville and was totally thrown.
Soccer/football is becoming a very popular sport at the amateur level--school and club teams. The big difference is at the professional level which is not a big thing here except among its small enthusiastic fan base.
“Whoever said that’s only a day and a half of driving”, Um, my dad when we were kids. We lived in Southern Florida and our family lived up North in North Carolina and West Virginia. Granted, it was a 24 hour drive but it often lasted 2 days and we did that twice a year
Swimming pools are a huge pain in the arse unless you can afford a " pool boy" 4 days a week !!
My longest trip was driving from Washington DC to Seattle across the north and back across the middle.
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I lived in England for 4 years, out in a little village not far (in American thought) from London. We were going to London for the first time and we’re pretty excited and while talking to our fellow villagers, we learn that most of them have never left their village (10 square miles). To say we were flabbergasted would be an understatement. I commented that “y’all can’t be serious, London is literally less than an hour away, you mean you’ve never been to buckingham palace”, where one neighbor piped up and queried “well how many times have you been to the statue of liberty?” What ensued was this Texan explaining to 1/2 the village how London was within 1 hour of our village, while the SOL was a 33 HOUR drive from where my home in Texas is to Liberty Island, how you can’t even drive the longest distance in Texas in less than 18 hours and how Texas alone can encompass England, Scotland, Ireland AND Wales THREE TIMES OVER with room to spare. They were pretty shocked to hear the numbers and later that year, 3 families (who had never left the village) LEFT THE VILLAGE to join us in a July 4th shindig at the Military base 30 miles away.
In America our language is a cohesion of all of our different cultures brought here since the beginning.
I highly recommend Wired’s video on American accents, they do an amazing job explaining the differences in our accents here in the states
It would take me 8 hours to drive from the NW corner to the SE corner of my home state Kansas! One state! And one time zone!
In North Carolina there's the farmer accent of Chatham County "the wheat field is getting right yaller (yellow) down yonder", the coastal accent, Mountain hillbilly and the Foghorn Leghorn Fritz Hollings accent that borders South Carolina. Maryland has the Baltimore, the hillbilly, Southern, and Coastal. And Maryland is a very small state.
Love southern usage of yonder... Distance & direction need not apply. 15yrs in the Carolinas, yonder has been said to me or in my ear shot, to be a appx 1ft in any or every direction to a couple houses away, few streets away, town or county away, & at least once to mean East Tennessee when I was at the time in this person's house in eastern Cleveland County, NC.
I'm in my 70s and I played soccer in California in my high school (1967) against many of the local high schools in the area. Although I knew nothing of the game when I started. I only knew you couldn't touch the ball with your hands
even 80mph highways it takes forever lol and once you hit highschool.. UK football or soccer no one really cares unless you are from another country and here then it is huge.
For me, driving from CT to FL is two days with an overnight in VA. To Canada, I can make it in a day!
Driving in Texas from farthest points N/S or E/W is 12ish hours alone. El Paso is closer to the Pacific than it is to Houston.
I drove from oregon to Colorado 26hrs straight
A lot of Americans DO have swimming pools. I live in Houston, Texas, and I'm looking at Google Maps satellite view of the houses on my street. There are 26 houses, and 9 of them having in-ground swimming pools. So roughly 1 in 3 houses on my street has swimming pools. And I don't live in some super rich area.. I would describe it as "upper middle class".
The house I grew up in had a pool, an above ground one, but, I haven't lived anywhere that had one since.
I live in New Jersey, one of the smallest states in the country. But, it still took a 2 hour drive to get to my grandmother's house, in Northern New Jersey.
Women's soccer is a bigger deal here, than in Europe. Of 8 Women's World Cups that have been held, the U.S. ladies have won 4.
@@ExUSSailor Which is why it is bigger,most Americans don't really care about soccer. However almost all Americans care about winning so yeah...
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We drove from DC to NM and back for vacation growing up.
5 hours max lol. I moved away from home and I’m that far, my sister lives 13 hours away from me. 18 hours away from home(we call home our parents house) I never thought about how y’all could travel the country in a day. I guess I just assumed every country is like America.
Where I live in Georgia most people drive a hour on way for work every day usually 30 to 50 miles
Lost in the pond is one of the first youtubers i started following just over a year ago and the new zeland faimaly just before their first thanksgiving dinner and then a bunch of you just a few days later and you i check out all of you daily
I'll address humor. New employee work humor is non-existent, Passing somebody on the street or in a shop unheard-of. After we get to know each other comes the banter. I'm sure somebody will chime in.
I live in Georgia and to visit my grandmother in Mississippi, it takes at least 8 hours on the road. And having to remind the men in the family that the women have to use the restroom. Men really are the ones who think “I can do the drive in one go” because they hold their bladders! Lol 😅
I often drive from Miami to Raleigh in one day and it's 11 and half hours without any traffic stoppages, and with only stops to refuel and to pee.
We can do the drive in one go because men are more alert and better drivers.
Only 8. Try 11 from southern Indiana to Northern Michigan. That was my every summer when we went to see my grandpa. Dad basically would give you 1 coke apiece, a bag of doritos to split between 3 people and an order of silence until spoken to.
@@aaronburdon221 my trips to tennesse to see family were about the same coming from northern Indiana.
My dad would be furious if we needed to pee outside any gas station fillups or lunch.
I remember many times peeing on the side of the interstate as a kid in the woods cuz the old man didn’t wanna waste time lmao
Grandma must live in Greenville or yahoo City.
As an American. my friends and family have always thought of the French as unfunny and rude.
Still haven't been proven wrong.
When I was 11 y/o my family moved from San Diego California to Jacksonville Florida it a week and a day with bathroom breaks, meal breaks, gas station stops and hotel stay every night so yeah we are a massive country
Some Americans like to try to speak with a British accent. The British kids sound so grown up when the speak.
We have banter in the southern USA, but when I moved to the Midwest everyone called me a dick 😂 I had to hold myself back a lot. It was hard. I left quickly.
My favorite British humor is the Johnny English movies. I don't care for going to the movies, but the 3rd installment was the only movie I thought about seeing at the theaters since 2011. Haha
As an American, I say if you aren't spending over 6 hours in a car round trip, are you even taking a drive? 1 hour is a quick stop at the mall lol. 6 hours sees my nieces. 8 gets me close to Mexico or Canada
It takes 36 hours to drive from central PA to El Paso, TX, we make that drive 2-3 times a year.. that’s going straight through. Another piece of info, it is faster to drive from El Paso, Tx to San Diego, CA than it is to drive from El Paso, TX to Houston, TX.. I laugh when someone thinks driving an hour is a long time..
5:50 I moved my family from San Diego, California to Harrisonburg, Virginia. I flew my wife and children ahead to get settled. I rented a trailer and drove our remaining household goods. it took me 3 days of just driving and sleeping. It was a loooong trip.
I am in Southern California. It takes me 4 to 5 hours to drive to Las Vegas Nevada depending on traffic. it takes about 8 hours for me to drive from near Los Angeles, to Sequoia National Forest. Which are both in California. And that is only a quarter way up the state. It takes days to drive from Southern California to Northern California.
Many houses have pools in the south. In my rural area in Georgia, we go swimming in creeks and lakes. You have to be able to cool off or face heat strokes🎉
I'm a truck driver and I'll drive 10 or 11 hours in a day and that's for work. Not counting the 2hrs it took to get loaded or unloaded. Mind you that's not everyday but some weeks it 70 plus hours a week
East coast and the out west have the most distinctive accents.
If you travel interstate highways you WILL run into construction and sometimes accidents that will slow everything down to a crawl and add time to your travels
Growing up there were so many accents in New Orleans that you could tell which neighborhood people were from because each one was a little different
I agree with you on soccer (football). However, my daughter has played since she was 8. She's now 35 and a mother, and that girl plays hard on co-ed teams (men and women). She's 5ft 1 inches and has taken out men over 6 ft tall.
You can take the 10 freeway across the country, from Santa Monica to Florida. That might go quicker, still at least 3 days.
Lots of chillier states still have pools we just can't use them in winter.