Would you want to stay for at least X hours? 2X? 4X? Something else?
You put way too much trust into fake meat.
No. It depends on what I went to do.
Exactly. I once drove 12 hours to save $6k on shipping. I was there for 45 minutes while four pallets were loaded.
More than 1h drive and I should spend half a day there.
More than 2h, I should plan the whole day (leaving in the morning and coming back end of the day)
More than 4 hours and I need to spend at least a night there before coming back.
I don’t like to drive long distance at all. Obviously, all of that depend what I’m doing there.
It takes me over an hour to get almost anywhere (rural). I sometimes drive over an hour each way just to eat a meal out. The trade off is it makes my cost of living much, much lower. And I like driving, so I guess it’s not so bad for me.
Same! My psychologist and doctors are 40 min away, the big shops also, we have just the supermarket, the pharmacy and the post office near us, for everything else you need to drive a lot! And forget about public transport
And forget about public transport
Ugh. Yeah. I’m in the subreddit for the nearest city, and they are constantly talking about public transportation things in the works and how happy they are for them, and I’m like, yep, when this is finished, I will still need to drive 30 minutes to the nearest stop.
Before I lived here, I lived in a far suburb of another major city and commuted into the city for school. I would actually drive 20 minutes to the light rail station, then take that another 45 minutes, then walk 20 minutes to school.
Just to be clear, though, I’m all for public transportation, I just wish it would reach me. I recently visited Tokyo, and the public transportation system was pretty incredible. You could go damn near anywhere with public transportation. Of course, they have been working on theirs for like 150 years. It’s not something that gets built overnight, and I think we need to commit to working on it now so our future generations can benefit from it. Unfortunately politicians gain nothing from planning things past when they are out of office, so there is no incentive for them to push for it.
If I hike up a hill for an hour, it was about the journey and I only need to stay at the top for 5 - 10 minutes.
For travel I usually use as a rule of thumb, that you need to stay the same number of days as there were hours in the flight to get there. So for example a quick two hour hop lends itself nicely to a weekend getaway, whereas a transcontinental flight implies staying a week or two. This tends to be advantageous anyway, for jet lag purposes.
Nifty.
If Neil Armstrong was resting this, he would laugh. So many months of preparation, just to walk a very short while on the moon
It’s not about the travel
7X. If I have to travel a day to go on vacation I will be staying for at least a week.
I wouldn’t put a time on it.
I would drive for a dozen hours for things that last a few minutes.
JS Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear someone play the organ.
Bach didn’t have planes trains and automobiles…
Depends where.
DMV? 0h.
Family? 2x minimum.
Friends? Whatever I can get.2/3 of X^2 seems pretty close
It depends really, but my go to in general is about as much time as I’m going to spend driving.
Sometimes though I don’t need to stay that long if the company is great or the place is great.
An example of a fun time with a 3 hour drive (1 way) and less than 6 at the destination: I went hiking with a good friend of mine and the hike only took 4.5 hours. The views were worth it and the company made it that much better.
An example of a crap time with a 2 hour drive (1 way) and less than 4 at the destination: hiking (again) except the person I was to be hiking with spent the night before getting drunk and rather than tell me they were too hung over to hike, came along anyways. He started vomiting 30 minutes into the trail, so we have to turn around and go home.
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Depends on other factors like who I’m meeting, time of day, etc. Purely on the time to get there though I think 2x minimum to make it feel worth it imo
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X hours. I prefer 2X hours, but X is my minimum.
So you’re saying a 1:1 travel to staying ratio?
I think it’s a 2:1 ratio because it’s X hours traveling there, X hours spent at the location, and then X hours coming back home, totaling 2X hours in transit.
At least a much time there as time to get there. Not the round trip time.
Preferably, at least as much time there as round trip time. However, I have violated this, so it is clearly not my limit.
Technically, I have stayed for shorter times. Those were not “for fun” trips and had important goals attached.
I am also discounting all one-way trips of less than an hour.
