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Originally Posted by Justus
Growing up in CT, we called roundabouts "rotaries".
You can tell a person is from California if you ask them how far it is to a particular destination and the reply is "about 20 minutes".
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Never really thought about it, but oh so true. Anything that takes less than an hour is close by. One to three hours is possible. Over three is a distance. I think it comes from the fact that five miles can take an hour on the right ? freeway. We Californians have no problem with distances, just value our time.
And not sure where I learned it (definitely not California) but I used to call roundabouts circles or traffic circles.