When you hear the term, ‘halfway across the state,’ what distance do you usually think of?

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1. At least 2/2.5hrs of driving. Depends whether its somebody actually giving a location or being hyperbolic.

2. 20 miles or so. New Jersey is very narrow, especially around where I live.

3. 2-3 hours

4. Long way or tall way?

5. Depends are they being literal or hyperbolic. In the latter case, it may only be a couple of hour away. In the literal sense, well, this *i*s Texas …

6. I think of Lansing.

   So like…50 miles? Michigan is a weird state for this lol

7. I think of 3 hours in the car

8. 250-300 miles

9. Syracuse

   4 hours

10. IT DEPENDS ON THE STATE.

    NJ, RI, DE? Not very long. CO, MT, TX? Many hours.

11. 4-5 hours.

12. Detroit to Muskegon (east—west across the mitten)? It’s about 90 miles from Detroit to the midpoint of Lansing.

    Temperance (SE corner) to Copper Harbor (NW corner)? Halfway would be a little over 300 miles.

13. Raleigh

14. I love smack dab in the middle of my state. To the northern or southern border is about 2 hours. To the western border or the ocean, we’re talking 6 or 7 minimum.

15. Ohio is very conveniently laid out: 2 hours from Cleveland to Columbus, 2 more to Cincinnati. So halfway across the state is 2 hours away in any direction that will keep you in the state.

16. I would just assume that means that whatever it is we’re looking for might as well be in China, cause we ain’t fucking going.

17. 3-4 hours drive.

18. 100-150 miles.

19. In New Hampshire it’s like 45 minutes lol if we’re talking East to west. I live by the Atlantic and Manchester is dead in the middle and that’s a 30 mile trip down the highway.

20. In my state- About 100-200 miles.

21. About 200 miles to get from the northern Illinois border to Springfield.

22. Probably about 3 hours or so of driving

23. 4 hours of driving, assuming they meant east-west.

24. That’s not something people really say about Minnesota, because of the shape. I would think they were talking about east-west, which would be about 100-150 miles.

25. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that, but in my case I’d think “near Harrisburg”, which isn’t actually halfway across, but I don’t know what is. About 3 hours.

26. Depends on the state. In Rhode Island that could be 30 yards.

27. 2-3 hours at most.

28. 3 hour drive. I have no idea what distance that is.

29. Depends on the state

30. We don’t really say that

31. Here in Delaware that could mean 10 minutes East to West or an hour north to south.

32. Halfway across the state.

33. About 7 hours if you hit LA traffic just right and keep your bathroom stops to a minimum.

34. Well, “halfway across the state” would be approximately Lansing, for me. If you mean vertically, that would be “halfway up north,” but defining “up north” can be fighting words. For me, halfway up north would be Midland, which is appropriately named. It’s not on a meridian line, either, but our appropriately-named Meridian Township is!

35. The halfway point for me is probably Syracuse based solely on it being like right in the middle of NY.

36. North: Oswego, Watertown, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains

    South: Ithaca, Binghamton, Catskills

    Southeast: NYC, Long Island

    East: Utica/Rome, Saratoga Springs, Albany

    West: Buffalo, Rochester

    3-4 hour drive basically.

37. Living in NJ, could be anything from a 45 minute to 2 hour drive depending on if you’re talking about N-S or E-W. Previously in NY, that term could be 3-4 hours.

38. People don’t really use that here

39. Around 150 miles.

40. I’m in Maine now. So like 2 hours.

    In Indiana it was like 2-3 hours. Indianapolis to Terre haute is 1.5 hours and Indianapolis to Chicago is like 3. Both of those are about half the state.

    In Rhode Island it meant like 30 minutes max.

41. I never take it literally. I just assume they mean “it’s really far away.”

    That said, if I had to put a number on it, I guess I’d say over 3 hours.