I just realized I've never ever been outside of this rather small rectangle

9 days ago by subarctictundra to c/europe

I need to save up and try going somewhere completely different

TrackenDaKracken 48 points 9 days ago

You're very fortunate to have traveled that "small" rectangle.

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subarctictundra 9 points 9 days ago

That's true. I certainly feel fortunate that my life exists within it. It's more of me noticing how limited (globally) my thinking/perspectives are.

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NuanceDemon 32 points 9 days ago

Seeing europe in this orientation really threw me for a moment.

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BoosBeau 27 points 8 days ago

No worries, almost all of us have never been outside this rather small circle either:

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Atropos 18 points 9 days ago

I've never been inside that rectangle!

By our powers combined.....

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RockBottom 17 points 9 days ago

That's ok. It doesn't matter.

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Peppycito 1 point 8 days ago

"you don't need to look over the fence to know it's a dog barking"

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RockBottom -1 points 8 days ago

Yeah, information is as easy to get as ever. Travel is for bragging, mostly.

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moonshadow 4 points 8 days ago

This is the take of someone who really needs to see more of the world

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RockBottom 1 point 8 days ago

By jet? Or by internet?

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Gonzako 8 points 8 days ago

Come to Brazil!

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deathmetaldawgy 1 point 8 days ago

Would love to travel to South America in general, Mexico first tho. Seems so big that it’s hard to think of where to start

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ICastFist 7 points 9 days ago

Where's banana for scale?

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subarctictundra 13 points 9 days ago

Can you not see it?

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ICastFist 5 points 9 days ago

No, can you put a red circle around?

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HiddenLayer555 6 points 9 days ago

I'd make a math joke about how technically you've only been to an infinitely small subset of that rectangle because your movement is 1D on a 2D plane but I don't know enough math to make it funny.

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Tudsamfa 4 points 8 days ago

Since we live on a globe, all those angles are bigger than 90°, making it only a quadrilateral.

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WolvenSpectre 6 points 9 days ago

Yeah... "Small"

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hitmyspot 5 points 9 days ago

Travel is enlightening. When you unlock more if the map, you'll find out the orientation is different, too!

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Fleur_ 4 points 8 days ago

Luckily you can draw the rectangle as big as you want and still say "I've never been outside of this rectangle"

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TheLeadenSea 4 points 8 days ago

I know someone who's never been outside of south England

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spicehoarder 1 point 8 days ago

I also know your mom

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Tattorack 3 points 8 days ago

My rectangle is bigger than yours.

Dann right, it's bigger than yours.

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Whirling_Cloudburst 3 points 9 days ago

Its really all relative. The Earth is orbiting around the Sun at about 30km per sec. Furthermore, the Solar System is rotating around the Milkyway at about 800000 km per hour. Not to mention that the whole thing is speeding toward the Andromeda Galaxy too. In short, you have never stepped in the same place twice unless you consider the possibility that we are living in a massive time loop paradox.

Enjoy your future vacation.

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majster 3 points 8 days ago

Cyprus, Helsinki and Tenerife via RyanAir would be most cost effective to make it quite large and you stay within Schengen which is nice.

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Meatwagon 3 points 8 days ago

Your rectangle is much bigger than my rectangle.

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khannie 2 points 8 days ago

Ryanair do flights to Morocco these days for what it's worth. I was in Casablanca years back and wasn't a big fan but they do other cities in Morocco too which I'm looking at myself as I have a voucher.

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passenger 1 point 8 days ago

I'm surprised I didn't see comments on projections

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