See, I’ll drive for the most part, because to add on to my bitching about public transportation.
One time had to go to a place for work training. It was 12 hours away. I wanted to drive, company says no, they have me tickets.
It took me 14 hours to get back home from what was a 12 hour car drive. And flying always ends with me pissed off.
So it’s all just absolute shite.
Once Kansas City had apparently a fantastic streetcar. Then the car companies bought it up and tore out the rails. Now we’re getting a streetcar being built again but it’s just doing downtown on one street. I’m not near the streetcar.
So I drive to work. It’s 12 miles, about 30 minutes (or 20 miles, 30 minutes if I take interstate around the city… honestly this city is weird, EVERYTHING is 30 minutes away.) If I wanted to take the bus, the shortest time frame would be 1 hr 35 minutes… not including that I’d have to get halfway there to get to the first bus stop.
Cities… if I wanted to take the train, I can go to Chicago for relatively cheap using Amtrak… but gotta plan that 3 months in advance, and the 8 hour ride we HOPE doesn’t get extended because Amtrak doesn’t own the rails it’s on. Flipside, driving is 8 hours. Other cities, St. Louis, Wichita, basically I have two train lines, one in state, and one cross country. If I want to go to Denver… it’s not happening.
So to answer your question, I want you to try to imagine how bad you think our public transportation is. Then lower your expectations.
375 miles away from spawn point, but my tutorial zone (where I actually grew up) was 215 miles away from there and 215 miles away from my current home point.
I lived in the city of my birth for a bit for a job, fucking hated that city, it was never home. Lived off and on where I grew up, and now have lived in my current for about 10 years.
Where I grew up is a complicated feeling. I miss the Ozark mountains, the flatlands I live in now I don’t like despite liking the city. But the area has changed so much and so rapidly it’s like coming to the bones of an animal where nature has rapidly overtaken the body and saying that’s the animal. It’s… recognizable if you squint at it, but it’s dead and gone and now something completely different.
I’m not sure if where I live now is “home” still. But if where I grew up was home, I can never go back there. I can live in that place, but the farming town is now a metro that is unrecognizable.