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I used to take the train from Orlando down to Miami (well... Ft Lauderdale) and it was about 3 hours, vs a simple 1 hour flight, or a 3 hour drive. The train ride was worse on holidays though, sometimes it took 6 hours or even way longer. I think I'd much rather be on the plane overall.

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I regularly take the train between Moscow and Kazan. It's 12 hours, you can get on in the evening, have dinner on the train and then get a decent 8 hours of sleep before getting up, having some coffee and arriving.

It's much longer than the equivalent flight, but also much more comfortable. There's something annoying about airports - with the train I can get to the station 15-20 minutes before departure and it's fine.

Once the train rides get much longer than 12 hours it shifts, but there's a sweet spot right around there.

Correct, you weren’t riding a bullet train.

There are these really fast trains that exist in a dozen countries.

China has 30,000 miles of high-speed rail.

good train > plane > bad train

Driving is cheaper than all of those options when its more than one person, at least here in Florida. The more people involved in your travel, the cheaper driving starts to get.

Some pretty bad traffic in Miami. Last month it took me an hour to go 10 miles on a Thursday afternoon.

Hehe, my wife is from there, for the first few years she lived in Orlando I would crack jokes about how bad it is down there, noticed she was getting offended so I pulled back, but the last three times we've gone down there she swears up and down Miami drivers are the worst. Of course Orlando has I-4 as well, which is, its own special place.

Get a comma ai and it's just not a bother.

Well duh x) because the "train" is dogshit, that's exactly my point. If instead of a 28 lane highway there was a dirt road, or instead of an intl airport and jets there was a grassy field and biplanes, nobody would drive or fly respectively, either x)

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