Driving cross-country to get to an interview with five minutes to spare was not exactly how I'd intended approaching this, but hey. I should know by the weekend if I'm hired or not.
No, it means I was on the wrong side of the country on the day of the interview. I was at about Carrick-on-Shannon when you called with the good news about the EU vote.
Best wishes and good luck aside, I just need to point out that my husband commutes 30 miles daily: translated, that's Dublin to Cavan. And I've worked with people who commuted 60 miles, or Dublin to Galway. Every. Day.
Uphill.
In the snow.
OTOH, since I depend on public transit in a podunk midsized town, it means I had to leave for a job interview a good 90-120 minutes early in hopes of getting there on time. So that's comparable.
I had a 80-mile round trip commute for a year. I'm not sure of your conversion data, either. Dublin/Galway is about three to four hours depending on which part of Kinnegad is under construction and whether or not you lock your keys in the car at Athlone; I find that your average American commute = 0.5x the same distance in Ireland, since we don't do the roads thing so well. Dublin/Cavan is worse because of, well, Cavan. It's a land of S-curves and potholes and not actual roads, per se.
For the record (and it is a record, for me) the Ballina/Dublin trip took me about 3.5 hours, which is a good half an hour faster than I'd normally do it. And I only hit 90MPH in a few spots (ambient speed limit 100KPH, or 62.5MPH, with leeway granted in general up to about 70MPH)
Yeah, i guess I got all weird because you said something about "cross country" and that means something a little different here. DH had a job interview about 3 hours away once and he was cutting it very closely due to a screwup in navigation, but I was approximating from the other stuff with "as the crow flies" mileage just looking at a map -- for us, our rural areas tend to be lots of straighter country roads and our highways have faster speed limits.
I'll shut up now until I actually get OVER THERE to check out the terrain firsthand. Sometime in the next 20 years, I'm hoping.
I remember that bit about the roads from the trip in '98 with H and J. I looked at the map and budgeted just over 4 hours to Belfast from the cliffs of Moher, on the basis of a 50 average. Four hours later (despite some physcho driving from H), we were talking to the security checkpoint in South Armagh, while I sat with a phone in my lap, waiting for the signal to improve enough to arrange a later ferry...
Over here, if it doesn't involve a lot of urban stuff, or passing a major city in/near rush hour, most journeys via A roads to places unknown work fairly well on a "50 average" plan. For my driving, at any rate. Once i know the road, it tends to be quicker (e.g here to Edinburgh is about 170 miles, but consistently less than 3 hours).
It does break down fairly dramatically in parts of the Scottish Highlands, where "A road" == "Single track road with passing places". It also seems to break down for several A roads in the area south of Glasgow, where the rule seems to be lots of stuff with a 30 limit and nowhere to overtake in the bits with a 60 limit.
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Uphill.
In the snow.
OTOH, since I depend on public transit in a podunk midsized town, it means I had to leave for a job interview a good 90-120 minutes early in hopes of getting there on time. So that's comparable.
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For the record (and it is a record, for me) the Ballina/Dublin trip took me about 3.5 hours, which is a good half an hour faster than I'd normally do it. And I only hit 90MPH in a few spots (ambient speed limit 100KPH, or 62.5MPH, with leeway granted in general up to about 70MPH)
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I'll shut up now until I actually get OVER THERE to check out the terrain firsthand. Sometime in the next 20 years, I'm hoping.
and because I'm so out of the looop
cripes. I need a nap.
I'll shut up now.
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It does break down fairly dramatically in parts of the Scottish Highlands, where "A road" == "Single track road with passing places". It also seems to break down for several A roads in the area south of Glasgow, where the rule seems to be lots of stuff with a 30 limit and nowhere to overtake in the bits with a 60 limit.