Choices

[Tony Nitrous]

I used to have a strop over a mile diversion when I was commuting to work...

When I was working in Boggabri it was around 400 mile drive to work. Put a dent in 7 hours going via Goondiwindi. Any detours we knew were happening we headed down through Tamworth and back up again, it was over 450 miles but more reliable.  Out here an extra 50 or 100K's isn't that big a deal, i'll Add 100K's just to have better roads some trips.

When we visit my wife's family up North it's 760 miles to their front door.

My GSX11 came from down South, 528 miles to the sellers front door.

Went to a wedding recently that was 630 miles away.

Daughter has just moved South, it's now 1040 miles to go and visit here and take here stuff down.

The size and distances here were one of the attractions. I love it !


Edit: My mate has his own business, and has around 50 vehicles I used to manage. He's pretty fussy about his business image and vehicles so they are all very similar. Same colour, model etc and similar years. A couple of local dealers who supplied him realised this and kept the prices up. He sourced a few vehicles elsewhere but struggled to get a decent price out of the dealers who knew him. One day he got the shits with their prices, jumped on a plane to Perth, bought a vehicle and drove it home. From the dealers back to our yard was 2,685 miles!  It would have been cheaper to pay the dealers but what's a few thousand miles to give them two fingers.... LOL.

[VladTepes]

Yep as Tony says... it's only distance.

There are even some places where you can drive for a full day and the view hasn't changed at all... (Nullarbor Plain)

You can drive a decent chunk of the east coast on a road called the Pacific Highway and hardly ever see the Pacific.

You can drive an even bigger chunk of the east coat (up in north Qld) where much of the road is very narrow, sometimes one lane of bitumen with gravel shoulders for passing.

In the outback? 700km to next fuel stop? Oh well that's OK. I thought it would be further.

Not too many landslides here (not too many hills). Instead the road hazards are generally flooded roads, bushfires, and wildlife.
You can write your car off by hitting a kangaroo (or them hitting you usually), or even a wombat.

The quality of Australian roads is second to none (literally). Lots of miles, not many taxpayers.
If you buy a low clearance sports car you are stupid.  Happy maybe, but stupid.    

[Kiwifruit]

Do you blokes in Aus still have those silent policemen in the middle of intersections ?