Random Talk

[benji]

Also for someone who traveled from another continent she thinks everything is 'too far'.

Because she's talking in a local sense, not a global or universal sense.

If she comes from a more traditional African life it's not like they could ride the train or drive to go anywhere, everything had to be really local. So, for her, something being 15-30 minutes away by train is far. You're used to urban sprawl where that's normal.

I've always traveled around, even locally, but in high school I knew people who thought a nearby mall or Best Buy was "far away" because they almost never left the immediate area and these were in a different suburb of the city. Some of these people I still know and they now think nothing of jumping to the other side of the city for something they want to go to that really does take an hour to get to and back, but when they were kids and it was out of their hands, distances seemed greater.