The idea that putting the central government somewhere other than the actual "main city" of the country is a perverse inefficiency was, of course, an opinion shared by diehard New Yorker Alexander Hamilton but it's too late now
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Also like to be fair in China the largest city in the country is Shanghai and Beijing, the capital, is #2 But that's still different from the US where Washington DC is #20 (which a mostly due to bullshit zoning laws forcing massive Beltway sprawl)
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That's not even that far! Also China is pretty big too, it's not like Beijing and Shanghai are that close together.
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Yes, well We established that the train would take four hours and the only faster method was to fly, upon which he asked why the train was so damn slow A decent question really
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I was in Seattle for a couple of weeks and my brother was briefly in New York. Our dad, back in the UK, suggested we get together. We were, at that point, further apart than we ever were.
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Yeah the whole UK could easily fit inside Wyoming and we don't even have anything in Wyoming
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I once had to break it to some American tourists over the blare of the ships horn from the harbour beside the train station that there is in fact no train from Ireland to the UK.
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I mean there COULD be if you put a little effort into it
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In Australia it isn't unheard of for tourists to get into a taxi in Sydney and ask to be driven to Uluru (a trip of 2840km) or even be driven to Melbourne (880km) and be surprised that it isn't a short sightseeing detour
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Good to see that Americans don't have a monopoly on geographic ignorance
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