Poll: How far is far away?

[Strazdas]

I can cross my entire country in 3 hours.
i would cinsder somone living in another city 1 hour away as far away relationship, but a person whos livingi n same city that takes 1 hour to transgress (i live at the end of the city) i would not consider far away. kinda wierd this way. i picked 2 hours. 8 hours is definatelly very far away.

 

[DanielBrown]

I love driving, so it doesn't matter much to me, but I'd say when it's over three hours it can start to feel very tedious. Depends a lot on the destination too though. I wouldn't wanna live more than an hour away from work.
Live in Stockholm, Sweden, so everything important is at most half an hour away by car.

Driving from the most northern to the most southern part takes 23,5 hours according to a road map. Damn.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Anything over 8 hours is a long way for me, but I live so far out in the sticks that it takes at least 30 mins to get to the nearest town. Then you add in the fact that I've driven coast to coast here in the U.S. so anything less than 8 hours really isn't that bad & I kinda like taking road trips with no real destination.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

So my girlfriend and I were talking about what we classify as a long distance drive. She is currently going to a college about 8 hours away from me in Virginia. I said that a trip that you cannot make a day trip is far away, about 4-5 hours. She thinks that still doesn't qualify as a long distance drive. So I ask you, how long do you have to drive before you consider it far away from where you started. List the country you're since answers will probably differ based on where you live.

Its only as far as you're willing to go and able to go. For me and my career I was willing to travel 250 miles to meet my future wife. For you it might be more might be less, it all depends on the person and how much are they worth up-heaving your life for.

I will say that I met mine at the perfect time. It was right after college and I pretty much had the ability to go anywhere without much pain.

 

[tysonn101]

Depends on what your doing, for example when I'm watching TV with my flatmates the remote can be too far away even if its on the other end of the sofa, which has led to several marathons of Jeremy kyle...

But distance wise its got too be over 4 hours to be FAR away, used to walk two hours to see people but thats just cause i live in a mountainy rural area so its at least an hour to the shops sometimes

 

[CriticalMiss]

Sometimes the other side of the room is pretty far away and you have to abandon any hope of getting the TV remote.

For car journeys then I'd say 8+ hours, the longest I've been on was 9-10 and that was tedious.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Heh, as a European I find the difference in perspective compared to my American friends so entertaining.

When I still lived with my parents my partner lived a 2-3 hour car ride away. However, she lives in Belgium and I lived in the Netherlands and as I haven't got a car my travel time was increased to a 5-6 hour train journey. Before I met her I would've said that would be incredibly long-distance but honestly, it doesn't feel so very long considering the rewards. Especially considering the travel time by car, we drove longer just to get to (and back again) a concert.

And I find it funny that for Americans it's completely normal to drive such distances, but my parents called me crazy for traveling that long just to get to a 2-3 hour concert. Being in a relationship with a Belgian partner however changed my own perspective quite a bit.

Nowadays I see a drive as far away if it's over 4 hours by car. Anything more and you can't comfortably return on the same day. Train-wise I'm less picky as I find traveling by train pretty relaxing. Gives you time to read or watch shows or something.

 

[Robert Marrs]

If its more than an hour it feels like a long drive but it depends on why I am driving. If I'm going to a place I don't want to be 45 minutes is forever away. If its somewhere I really want to go 8+ hours is no big deal.

 

[The Enquirer]

Good question. I've always used to think that distance doesn't really matter that much, considering you can still talk to them when you can in this age of Facebook, the phone, Internet and so forth.

Then it happened to me and my girlfriend now lives more than a 1000 miles (above 2600 km, for clarity) away from me due to life around her which I can't help with. It's too damn much to cope with sometimes. I just miss her too much. =(

To answer the question, I'm not sure. I'd say about 2 or 3 hours for me as I really dislike the loneliness. But anything more than that and I start feeling nervous and a constant urge to see her. It makes me really want a teleporter now, as selfish as that sounds. =/

Its actually really similar with me. 2 nights ago we had a video chat and that was the first time we saw each other in over a month, closer to 2 actually. It helped relieve some of the stress about our relationship.

OT: It's actually really interesting to see a lot of the opinions here. Tells a lot about what it'd be like living in different countries/continents.

 

[Yopaz]

It depends entirely on the situation. If I lived 2 hours away from my school I would say that's quite far because I have to go there a few times a week. However if I am travelling to stay somewhere for a while I can easily handle 5 hours, but then it's a stretch. I have been travelling for 13 hours straight after spending the day in school once. That was too far for one day.

 

[Ashhearth]

I'm from the US and go to college about 5 hours from home on a good day. I would say that this is decently far away since I would only want to drive one way in a day. Anything less and i don't think is really too bad. Maybe its just the number of crazy drivers I've encountered in my 2 years being here that have me so warry.

 

[Cazza]

8+ Hours I'm from Perth Western Australia. It takes a long time to get to a lot of good places in WA. I'd do a 6+ hours drive to Kalgoorlie without wanting to stop easily. Which I was doing nearly weekly awhile back and it was enjoyable. I was once traveling with family friends who wanted to stop every 2 hours of a 7 hour trip and it took all day. It was torture.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

If you're staying the night, then 3 or 4 hours would be a long drive.
If you're not, and therefore are driving back the same day, then anything approaching 2 hours. That would be difficult to maintain in a relationship, I would imagine.

These are pretty much my boundaries, too.

I'm more than happy to drive for up to two hours if I'm seeing my significant other just for the day, but I wouldn't drive for three or four hours one way if I was expected to drive back the same day.

If you start making trips that long just for a few hours together, you realize that you're spending more time travelling than you are with your partner. That's pretty depressing, especially if you get stuck in traffic.

 

[Auron225]

It depends entirely on where I'm going and for what reason.

If I have to go 30 minutes just to buy milk than that's really far away.
I don't mind 45 minutes to get to uni every day.
2 hours is a long trip if it's a day out to do something fun.
5 hours isn't too bad to go visit my sister at her university for the weekend.

It's all down to perspective.

 

[The White Hunter]

I suppose it depends on how tolerant/patient the person is.
If I drove, it'd take an hour/an hour and 20 minutes to get to my boyfriends whereas trains it can take up to 2 hours depending on train times and waiting times.

Most people I talk to think that's too much, a lot of them think being in different cities makes my relationship impossible which is just stupid.
3 hours+ would be a struggle but it can be worth it if you're able to see each other a lot. Thankfully I have the patience of a saint.

I've travelled 6+ hours to see a guy before and it was certainly a waste of my time, haha!

Different cities? That's a pretty big cultural difference XD

Most of the people I hang out with now live in different cities, and none of them live closer than 30 minutes.

Granted a relationship would be different, but still.

Eh? Different countries for me. Like a days plane journeys.

 

[Hagi]

I'd consider more than two hours of travel time to be far away as that basically means I'll be travelling abroad.

My country isn't very big .