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Post by winic1 on Jan 28, 2017 21:51:42 GMT
I'm trying to figure out what is the time difference between me and you all.
I'm in the northeastern US. It's just about 5pm (4:50pm to be exact)
I'll be able to compare by what time my computer says you post your time.
What time is it where you are?
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Post by savvy on Jan 28, 2017 21:55:07 GMT
9.54pm in north east england.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2017 22:20:51 GMT
10.20pm West Midlands England
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Post by ntg on Jan 28, 2017 22:33:07 GMT
5 hours ahead for the UK then (22:33 Edinburgh)
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 2:01:29 GMT
Is the UK all in one time zone?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 9:09:58 GMT
Yeah it is Winic x
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 13:30:39 GMT
Well, that makes it easy. There are 4 time zones in the continental US, plus Alaska and Hawaii are each in their own as well. So, I'm near New York city, when it's 9am here, it's 8am in Chicago, 7am in Denver, 6am in Los Angeles, 5am in Anchorage, and 4am in Honolulu. Makes calling businesses interesting/frustrating at times. Good thing for me is, by the time I wake up, you're all halfway through your day, and I have stuff to read already.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 13:36:56 GMT
It's madness! I find it such a bizarre thing that you have different time zones like that, yet still in the USA! I think I'm quite glad that the UK is all one time, I'd be so confused lol!
Yes haha! It's 1.36pm here. I run out of things to read very frequently 😋
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Post by ntg on Jan 29, 2017 13:44:26 GMT
We really are a tiny little country compared to the US and Canada... Apparently Texas is almost 3x bigger than us, yet we still complain about having to drive to the other end of the country
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 13:48:52 GMT
Yep haha! Driving 4 hours to Cornwall, phew (well being a passenger 😂) I couldn't imagine living in such a big place. The UK is plenty big enough for me 😘
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Post by moletteuk on Jan 29, 2017 14:03:33 GMT
Britain seems pretty big to me when you drive from north cumbria to the tip of cornwall What time zone is DC in? I have in mind she is 7 hrs behind us?
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 15:00:48 GMT
I think that's right, Canada pretty much matches us, they don't have the Alaska/Hawaii zones, but they have another one more east of me (so that would be 4 hours)
It's, in rough numbers, 3,000 miles from me to Los Angeles, 2,000 to Denver, 850 to Chicago. I can go 850 miles north and still be in the US (although I don't think there are roads in far northern Maine) and 1400 miles south from where I live. And then there's Alaska and Hawaii
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 16:32:41 GMT
3,000 miles!! Lol! That's horrendous! I find it so bizarre it's normal to just take a flight across the country. I'd feel odd stepping off a plane and my surroundings looking pretty similar lol, as I'm so used to planes = somewhere totally different, culture, people, temperature, lifestyle, scenery etc.
Do you like living in the US Winic?
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 18:41:10 GMT
Haven't lived anywhere else, so hard to really say if it's better or worse than elsewhere.
Grew up in the northeast corner where I am now. Spent 8 years out west, 6 in the Denver area, 2 in Oregon in a little town west of Portland. Did not like Oregon, but at the time they did NOT like outsiders and I was about as foreign as you could get to them.
Loved Colorado, wish I was still there. As you might guess from it being such a big place, different areas are very different in attitude and lifestyle and personality.
Don't much like the northeast, very cold and hard and selfish, especially as I live in a very rich area where the snobbery is inbred and so inhumane. But, there are big advantages in access to big cities with the best arts and sciences and all that--I'm an hour and a half from New York City, 3 and a half from Boston, can even drive to Washington, DC in six hours.
Can be at Long Island Sound in less than an hour, or make to open ocean in about 3-4, easily. Tho as you know, the northern Atlantic is cold and dark and not the greatest for going into. Florida's water is warm like a gentle bath and clear and blue and beautiful.
Despite a high population density, because of the hilly rocky nature of the land, my town of 25,000 people, roughly, is spread over 42 square miles, with the houses tucked away in the trees except up in the center of town, which is a very small portion of the town, so I live in a country setting with hundreds of acres of forests between roads and houses, and all kinds of wildlife, deer, raccoons, skunks, opossums, rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, foxes, coyotes, even bobcats, hawks, owls, all kinds of birds. Have watched a fox curl up for a nap right outside my windows, same for a hawk catching and eating a chipmunk, skunk foraging for mushrooms in my lawn at night, and even had a deer tuck her newborn fawn into the undergrowth at the edge of my woods, 50 feet outside the bathroom window. Just up the road from me, not even half a kilometer, is a trail going up into 600 acres of state forest, with many trails running through, walking trails only, old growth forest in many places.
I love living in the woods. Cities make me a little crazy. Need open spaces. Need wild trees.
When I lived out west, in Colorado, I loved the people much more. Much more easy going, generous, accepting, considerate. Felt like I belonged there. And then, the Rocky Mountains!!! I was made for high altitude. The higher I got, the better I felt. Used to run up mountain trails, higher than tree line, and just leap off rocks so that the strong high mountain winds would blow me several feet off the trail. Would cross-country ski like a maniac up and down mountains, my friends with me would describe it as hearing a Whoosh! and then just seeing the long brown hair flying past and down the trail (as they carefully worked their way down. Me? fly down a section. Ski back up past them a ways, then fly down again, then ski back up past them, then....I'd ski those trails 4, 6, 8 times in the time it took them to safely work their way down.) I loved high altitude.
So, yeah, I guess I like living here. Some parts are definitely better than others, depending on where you fit in.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 18:47:00 GMT
3,000 miles!! Lol! That's horrendous! I find it so bizarre it's normal to just take a flight across the country. I'd feel odd stepping off a plane and my surroundings looking pretty similar lol, as I'm so used to planes = somewhere totally different, culture, people, temperature, lifestyle, scenery etc. It doesn't look the same at all. Northern forests are pine- types. Middle ones are leafy. East Coast is low, old mountainous, very hilly. Middle is much flatter, gets to high dry plains as you go west. Then you hit the Rocky Mountains rising up from the plains, past the mountains is drier desert like, then the Sierra Nevada and Coast mountains are tree covered again, north western coast is very mild and wet and heavily forested, southwestern coast (like LA) is dry desert, palm trees and other near-tropical vegetation. Southwest interior is desert, cactus and all. central Gulf of Mexico coast is flatter and heavy greenery and trees, heading to Florida which is palm trees and tropical. Middle of country, near the Mississippi river, is flatter and lower, especially as it widens out to the Gulf. coming up the eastern seaboard, goes from flatter to more mountainous, especially as you head inland and hit the Appalachian mountains, and more forested. Very different indeed depending on where you go.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 18:48:11 GMT
Wow! What a beautiful array of nature you have at your doorstep! I used to love living in the country side. I never saw anything like that though. I feel the same.
I'd love to visit - I don't know where I'd start though! I'd have to do Disneyland of course.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 18:50:04 GMT
I have driven from where I am to Denver, Colorado a few times. 30 hours highway time, each way.
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 18:52:50 GMT
Hubby is now sitting next to me, he says go Google Earth it, satellite view, which is the actual pictures, and explore. Use street view when zoomed in to places, you can actually SEE people's houses and "drive" down the road.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 18:54:53 GMT
Where would be interesting to explore on Google Earth? I'll have a bit of fun!
My friend was pictured when they took the photos for street view coming out of an "adult" shop! 😂 He showed me and it was him, you could tell despite the face blurring lol!
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Post by winic1 on Jan 29, 2017 19:02:09 GMT
Try this www.google.com/maps/place/358+Limestone+Rd,+Ridgefield,+CT+06877/@41.3305228,-73.4946643,461m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2aaebb984e425:0x5456fdd0d48b5d4c!8m2!3d41.3301569!4d-73.493294 That's my house. to the left are the woods with the trails, I have to walk north (up) just around the curves to get to the trails. If you zoom out, my town is to the south southwest of my house. Keep zooming out, New York City is southwest. Boston is Northeast. Keep zooming out, pick another part of the country and zoom in.
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