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Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don't. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
I met some Brits on a flight back to Aus and they were a bit confused…
They thought they would be having breakfast at Bondi, bushwalk and picnic in the Blue Mountains then drive down to Melbourne for dinner and back to their hotel in Sydney.
That’s around 20 hours of driving not including stops.
They really didn’t comprehend the scale.
Sometimes I wonder if they do that on purpose just to amuse Americans/Australians/Canadians. "Remember to ask to see things in three corners of the continent in an afternoon and watch them explain how unreasonably gigantic the place is. They seem to love it."
On the other hand I did once have to explain to one of my British friends what American TV bumpers meant when they said "nine, eight central." You don't tend to think about time zones when your whole country fits in one of them.
I would think so but I overheard them and they had no idea I was Aussie at that point…