In article , Spiv wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Depends on your point of view. The UK is a bit smaller than the state of
Oregon, and there are eight US states larger than Oregon. From a US
perspective, the UK is small.

You lack basic logic and reasoning. The point: The UK is not small. It is
not is the answer, not babble about US states.

From the point of view of travelling around it, the UK is very small
by US standards. In the USA, an airline that serves approximately
the area of the UK is a small local airline of no national import,
and it is expected to fly considerably different aircraft from a
national or international airline.

This applies in general when one moves out of Europe. Europe is
very densely populated, with numerous large cities within a few
hours' driving time of each other. (I live in Minneapolis, MN,
in the 15th largest metro area in the US. The closest bigger
one is Chicago, and that's eight hours' drive away.) In most of
the world, the distance between major population centers is much
higher than in Western Europe.

What works well in the UK for a transportation system doesn't
necessarily work well over the rest of the world.

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