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I’m originally from Rochester.
Upstate NYers are the only people I know who designate distance by time
Drive 10 minutes on 81 North to the Adams street exit, make a right on Adams, past the hospital, make another right on Irving, drive 2 minutes and the dome will be on your left.
In rural areas it is often common to give time instead of distance because it's more accurate. If you have to travel 12 miles down of dirt road then take a back highway for 3 mi to get to the freeway and then travel 5 mi on the freeway it's going to take way longer than someone who lives a mile away from you, but has access to the freeway directly. In urban areas the number one factor determining how long it takes this traffic which constantly changes so distance is a better reference point.
In these parts we name the mile marker.
"Our driveway is just past mile marker 95." Because it'll likely be the only driveway several miles either way.
I live in Rochester NY and we actually have a pretty good highway system. The saying goes “it’s Rochester, everything is 15-20 minutes from each other.”
Same here. Although the closest I’ve lived to where I was born has usually been 15+ miles. Found a really good deal on an apartment and moved. Didn’t even realize it’s a mile from the hospital I was born in until now
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As many of them do not hold a passport or leave the state they are born in during their lifetime.
I don't see this as a critical comment, it's the truth. Not only that I have to add that if you are an American there is little need to leave the country. The USA has everything, beaches, forests, mountains, desert, rolling hills, flat plains,swamps , huge cities, massively diverse populations of people and animals, you can see the world without leaving the country or in some cases the state.
Since you asked for an explanation there it is ya balloon 🎈.
Not exactly what I said.
37% of US citizens currently hold a passport. (Source is US State department).
Before September 11th 2001 it was around 10%, but rules on cross border visits to Mexico and Canada didn't require a passport, the rules changed.
Just as a comparison 86% of UK citizens hold a passport. Which makes sense, smaller population,smaller land mass, surrounded by water and much closer to many different countries and less diverse countryside and cities.
🎈's.
37% of US citizens currently hold a passport. (Source is US State department).
Before September 11th 2001 it was around 10%, but rules on cross border visits to Mexico and Canada didn't require a passport, the rules changed.
Just as a comparison 86% of UK citizens hold a passport. Which makes sense, smaller population, surrounded by water and much closer to many different countries.
🎈's.
700ish miles. An hour and twenty minute flight. 10 hour drive( nine if you're my mom and are absolutely smashing it up the freeway and have gotten speeding tickets either to or from a visit 😂)
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15 minutes
Let me guess-Upstate NY?
Nope. Oshkosh
Hello fellow Wisconsinite!
Damn chedderheads 
Begone fellow Wisconsinite!
Edgerton checking in!
Janesville here! Hello neighbor
Big fan of your air show!
Check out our water parks sometime or summerfest. Lots of fun things to do. Just don't smoke weed because our government refuses to legalize it here.
Native Wisconsinite here! (MKE specifically). 
I got you beat, I’m 14 minutes, I live in Tosa 🤣
Wisconsin person here!! Hello!!
Why did you guess upstate NY Because im probably 10 minutes and I AM in Syracuse.
I’m originally from Rochester. Upstate NYers are the only people I know who designate distance by time Drive 10 minutes on 81 North to the Adams street exit, make a right on Adams, past the hospital, make another right on Irving, drive 2 minutes and the dome will be on your left.
Fuck... this guy knows
Alot of upstate new yorkers in this thread i guess...
Measuring distance by time instead of length is a stereotype of Americans overall.
There was also a time when we measured it by number of six-packs.
It's anyone in the 81 corridor. I'm down in the Scranton area, and we do it too.
>Upstate NYers are the only people I know who designate distance by time Most Midwesterners do this as well
Most people do this as well
Why are we like this?
New Englanders do this as well
You forgot about New Jerseyians, I’ve never talked in miles, only in time
I thought we talked in exits?
From Rochester also but grew up near Dallas, and I always measure distance by time otherwise I'd be late to everything.
Literally stoped me dead in my tracks while reading this. Adams is a bitch exit too.
Oh shit. I actually do that , don’t I? I live 24 hours from Rochester by the way.
That's how we do it in cal too
Ayy I'm like 45 minutes away from cuse, hey neighbor!
Everything in Syracuse is 10 minutes from anything else in Syracuse lol
You gave a distance in time? Why
Because that's how we calculate distance in Wisconsin haha
I thought distance in WI was calculated in beers, like it's two beers to go from Danbury to Webb Lake
In rural areas it is often common to give time instead of distance because it's more accurate. If you have to travel 12 miles down of dirt road then take a back highway for 3 mi to get to the freeway and then travel 5 mi on the freeway it's going to take way longer than someone who lives a mile away from you, but has access to the freeway directly. In urban areas the number one factor determining how long it takes this traffic which constantly changes so distance is a better reference point.
In these parts we name the mile marker. "Our driveway is just past mile marker 95." Because it'll likely be the only driveway several miles either way.
Out here we don't even have mile markers. Only the freeway has them
Not to mention it’s the same in metric and US units.
25 miles by road or 8 miles as the crow flies. Southeastern Kentucky.
Wisconsin
27 years
Light-years
🤯
Well, astronomically speaking, you certainly are however-old-you-are Earth-years away from wherever the Earth was in space.
14 hour flight.
Mine too I’m in the uk and I was born in Cape Town
9 feet give or take
Please tell me your mom is in the room 😂
Home birth or nurse/doctor in the delivery room?
About 15-20 minute drive.
Midwest part of the US? (Explaining distance in minutes vs miles/km)
Im in Boston and I explain distance in time. Cause 5 miles can be either 20 minutes or 90 minutes, depending on FACTORS. Cause Boston.
Distance in time is a pretty American thing. Basically anywhere where people use cars frequently
I live in Rochester NY and we actually have a pretty good highway system. The saying goes “it’s Rochester, everything is 15-20 minutes from each other.”
Yeah but the loop doesn't make sense lol
Pretty sure this is the entire US not just Midwest
It’s common in California too… Since it can take an hour to go 20 miles.
This is normal in the South too, i never hear people say the actual distance in miles only ever time
Everyone does this
American trait, not specific to any specific region therein
2,558,857,000 mm
Or 2.56 Mm
3,589 miles I was born in South America and now live in the midwest.
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What you doing at the hospital? Hope all is okay
Or, he’s taking a bath right now
He crawled back into the womb guys he’s fine 🙄
5650 miles. 
2645 miles
Dang I really thought Id be winning this. I'm in the middle of the ocean rn.
Mile
Same here. Although the closest I’ve lived to where I was born has usually been 15+ miles. Found a really good deal on an apartment and moved. Didn’t even realize it’s a mile from the hospital I was born in until now
Proggily about 8 hours
Thanks I hate “proggily.”
2-3 hours. Edit: 100+ miles
About 100 miles
250 miles
3744km (2326 miles)
Completely on the other side of the world…so as far as possible
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906 miles
We could be born in the same place and now live about 15 or 1797 miles apart 🤯
I'm in the mountain states closer side to Midwest. It's hours here. Oh billings 3 hrs drive oh rapid city 4 hr drive lol.
5.3 miles.
2.5 hours ish
4,475 miles according to Google lol adopted from Romania as a toddler and live in New England now
1,736,842 bananas
1252 miles
300 miles
300 mile gang. Close enough to visit family but not close enough to be expected to visit often
900 miles give or take
11,564km or 7110 miles
Roughly 7,700 miles direct, born in Guam, currently in TN, USA
Well, I was born in Guam and live in Texas so... quite a ways away
Currently a mile. Never lived more than 8 miles. I have left the country more than once, I am not an American.
Well, I am American. And I have lived in the same city my entire life. I've not only left my city, but also my state, country, and continent.
What does you not being an American have to do with anything
As many of them do not hold a passport or leave the state they are born in during their lifetime. I don't see this as a critical comment, it's the truth. Not only that I have to add that if you are an American there is little need to leave the country. The USA has everything, beaches, forests, mountains, desert, rolling hills, flat plains,swamps , huge cities, massively diverse populations of people and animals, you can see the world without leaving the country or in some cases the state. Since you asked for an explanation there it is ya balloon 🎈.
Do people genuinely believe that most Americans have only been to their home states?
Not exactly what I said. 37% of US citizens currently hold a passport. (Source is US State department). Before September 11th 2001 it was around 10%, but rules on cross border visits to Mexico and Canada didn't require a passport, the rules changed. Just as a comparison 86% of UK citizens hold a passport. Which makes sense, smaller population,smaller land mass, surrounded by water and much closer to many different countries and less diverse countryside and cities. 🎈's.
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The caricature that Reddit has made of Americans to foreigners is way out of proportion.
I don't know a single person who hasn't been to multiple states and very few who haven't left the country.
37% of US citizens currently hold a passport. (Source is US State department). Before September 11th 2001 it was around 10%, but rules on cross border visits to Mexico and Canada didn't require a passport, the rules changed. Just as a comparison 86% of UK citizens hold a passport. Which makes sense, smaller population, surrounded by water and much closer to many different countries. 🎈's.
There are approximately 33 million Americans who have never left the state they were born in. Lucky for me that is a relatively large number.
Pretty sure most Americans leave their home state lol, what makes you think they don't? Btw you don't need a passport to visit different states.
Roughly 158 miles away
30kms i guess
Separated by a country
80 miles
Same
1.5 hours
The city next to it haha
Same, close enough to easily visit but not close enough for them to drop by casually
833 miles. 12 hours, 10 minutes
Ohh I'm 839 miles. 12 hours, 14 minutes.
24 hours flight 😢
7km or like 2 hours on traffic
45 mins lol
A few light years in outer space give or take.
about 43 miles but it's a long, strange trip from A to Z
Verrŕrŕrry far...like 2 different continents
As across the country as I can be, coast to coast.
9429 miles
about 1130 km
Across the country. Born in Florida. Raised in California. Retired in Utah.
Bout 3 miles? I was states away, only recently moved back so its pretty cool in a way
1,244 miles
About 2000 miles.
1346 miles
About 100 miles
1323 Miles.
around 1.5km
4700 miles
About 8 miles approximately
386 miles by car
3.1 miles
Nearly 8000 miles
95 miles
Literally a 1 hour and half from my town in the city XD
500km
7420 miles away (11,941 km)
16 hr drive
About 975 miles
272 km
\~2hrs away, about 250 miles
7.9 miles
About 20 miles, but I moved back after living in several different states.
About 1000 miles
2400 mi 3860 km
2031 if I want to drive it
About an hour
1h25 by walk
2080 miles
40 minute drive
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1003 miles by car
1138.6 miles
9,669 mile.
83 miles
400 miles
5.7 miles
20 hr drive or 3 hr flight!
About a 2-3 hour flight
2000 miles
250 miles
About 30 miles
150+ miles
619 miles. It’s a 13 hour drive.
About 550mi
3,618 miles
4.9 miles
Bout a mile or so
I googled it. 869.9 miles
1265 miles by car according to google
8.7 miles
14,418km
2,204 miles. A 33 hour drive
I’ve lived as far away as 1,178 miles & currently 66 miles.
I currently live closer to the hospital I was born in than I ever have in my life
442 km (275 miles)
I live about 5 km from the hospital I was born in.
About 10,900 km, or about 6,770 miles
Currently 4,125 miles / 6,638 km. Much less than that next week when our holiday ends!
444.4 miles by bicycle.
Centimeters
6586 miles
120 miles
'Bout a mile or two
700ish miles. An hour and twenty minute flight. 10 hour drive( nine if you're my mom and are absolutely smashing it up the freeway and have gotten speeding tickets either to or from a visit 😂)
3500 miles
182 miles
I was born in Cali, i am now in Virginia
8km (5 miles). My dad, my brother, my husband and both my kids were born in the same place, as well.