(OT) How many times have you moved?

minipol · #1 June 17th, 2003, 08:34 AM

I'm really amazed but the distance some people travel here. wow. makes my 31 odd miles seem like a candy trip

Baron Grazic · #2 June 18th, 2003, 08:55 AM

Distance doesn't mean anything these days.

A flight from Australia to the US is only 8-12 hours, which just happens to be the same amount of time that it takes to drive from Melbourne to Sydney, a distance of only 1000KM (600 miles???).

oleg · #3 June 19th, 2003, 01:34 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
Distance doesn't mean anything these days.
A flight from Australia to the US is only 8-12 hours, which just happens to be the same amount of time that it takes to drive from Melbourne to Sydney, a distance of only 1000KM (600 miles???).

For travel, but not for moving the household ! You can rent a truck, load your stuff, drive to Sydney and unpack, all in 2-3 days and a cost of ~ $100. Now, move to US for example

minipol · #4 June 19th, 2003, 01:35 AM

True but i'm not used to such distances. Like i said, belgium is a very small country.

Oh yeah 1000 km = 621.371192237334 miles

I use Metric Converter to do these kind of conVersions. It's a very small and handy app. It converts speed, acceleration, volume,... To much to mention.

Ragnarok · #5 June 18th, 2003, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by minipol:

I use Metric Converter to do these kind of conVersions. It's a very small and handy app. It converts speed, acceleration, volume,... To much to mention.

Or you could do it the old way as for every mile you go you travel 1.6 KM. So just take 1000KM and devide that by 1.6. It came out with 625 miles which is not 100% accurate according to your calculations but it was close.

Stone Mill · #6 June 18th, 2003, 04:04 PM

Good luck minipol... I just dug my heels in as well. It feels like I struck gold - but - goodness gracious, the work never stops. I hope you have some favors to call friends on- to help out with some of the bigger projects.

Take your time. From what I hear the house will take you about 2 years to get it where you like it.

Taera · #7 June 18th, 2003, 07:28 PM

i've moved twice back in Ukraine, then i moved to israel. There we moved twice and then we moved to Canada. Now we're here.