Harry Potter and the half blood prince

[Iure]

Whoa!! At sixteen! My sister is now 18, and wants to start taking driving lessons (she is kinda clumsy, so the rest of the family is already predicting how long it would take her ;D) . I don't think it would have been a good idea if they had given me a driver's licence at the age of 16 or 18 Mind you, it's still not a good idea

[Erutanie]

lol. In Montana, you can get it at 15.

[Iure]

lol, if every kid here in NL could get a licence at 15, no one would be able to drive anymore The roads are already crammed with vehicles, forming endless tailbacks every day!

[Erutanie]

In Colorado you can'y get your permit until 16 and then your lisence at 18.

[Iure]

I got extremely angry at a friend of mine today. We went camping with the 4 of us, taking 2 cars with us. I was in the second car reading the map, following the first. But the girl in the first car used SatNav (?) (We call it TomTom, a device telling you where to turn left etc.) But unfortunately, she got nervous and didn't really listen to the directions. And with every wrong turn she got more nervous. But she took it out on us... *sighs* Oh well, she's a great friend when not driving

[Erutanie]

I hate driving. It's not too bad in familiar areas.

Here, it's not too hard to find a place to go camping. I'm not sure about the city I am in now. I might be able to navigate my way to the lake we were at the other day, but I prefer camping in like the middle of nowhere so you can have privacy, just you and those you are with, not everyone and their dog (which is a lot more common and easier to find).

[Iure]

True. With my family we always went to the most secluded campsites we could find. One time it was so far away from civilization we had to drive for half an hour before we got to a road that was actually paved but I always loved it, nothing better than mountains and forests wherever you look... *sighs*

[Erutanie]

If we go camping in the desert, then you have to drive like an hour on dirt roads. Dirt roads aren't that uncommon where I live. I live on a dirt road (it isn't too bad until it rains...then is sucks). In the city I am in now, everywhere is paved. When I went to the lake (about 1/2-1 hour away), everywhere was paved.

[Iure]

Holland is much too small to have hours of dirt roads. (Unless you drive veeeery slowly, lol)
Some data: NL is 16,000 square miles, with a population of 16.5 million.

[Erutanie]

There aren't too many places with hours of dirt roads, but there are hours of roads to drive on just inside Utah. I think my county is almost as big as your country...*does research*
Population:2,550,063 (Utah) 299,398,484 (US)
Land area, 2000 (square miles): 82,143.65 (84,900 on another site) (UT) 3,537,438.44 (US)

Pop of my county: about 20,000
Land area, 2000 (square miles): about 1500
Pop of the county my school is in: about 978,000
Land area, 2000 (square miles): about 750

Utah is 11th largest out of 50 states.

[Iure]

lol, so to make Utah have the same population density as NL, it would need about 82 million people...

The country I'm moving to (Belgium) is even smaller, it's only 11,000 square miles with 10 million people.

[Erutanie]

Dang, that would be about 1/3ish of the US population.....wow....

[Iure]

It is kind of crowded here. Up there I should say, since I am now no longer living there

[Erutanie]

So, how's Belgium?

[Iure]

funny. People are so different, even though we roughly speak the same language. E.g. They are extremely polite, work very s l o w l y, and I still don't understand their humour.

But I love the city. The old buildings, the shops, the streets...