There's nothing different about country drivers and city drivers. You just don't notice it in cities because there's multiple lanes and stop lights and you can go around them in the city, or on multi-lane highways. There's slowpokes and leadfoots in both locations.
As far as wondering, at 34 years of age, if you'll ever flip the switch and be the slowpoke? I doubt it. You'll be aggressive and impatient as long as you want to be. :laughing: I was until this January. I made a New Year's resolution to not use my horn, and stop driving aggressively. That lasted for about 4 days.
So I reset my "Horn Meter" and I went for about 10 days. Then had to reset it again, and so on. I think I'm up to about 40 days with no horn usage right now. So that's the horn meter. Now for the aggressive resolution.... I just bite the bullet and sit there. Yep. Just sit there in the slow line and take it, just like everyone else in the line has to take it.
To make a 45 mile drive in 45 minutes means you have to average 60MPH. To average 60MPH, you have to drive well over 60MPH.
To make a 45 mile drive in 90 minutes, you have to average 30MPH. If you can only average 30MPH, chances are it's not just one or two cars going that slow in front of you the whole way. It's traffic congestion and pulsation that causes waves in the flow of traffic that keeps the speed varying from slow to fast for no apparent reason. If one person is driving the speed limit, and a line of speeding cars comes up behind him, the first one hits his brakes, then they all hit their brakes not in unison, but in succession, each one hitting them harder and slowing more than the car in front of them. The first guy gets to the speed of the car in front of him, but the 2nd guy takes longer, 3rd longer than that, etc.... The guy in front never varies from 55, but 10-20 cars back they're down to 30-40mph, then pulse back up, hit their brakes, slow down, speed up, etc... it creates waves in the traffic pattern each time someone brakes. Remember, the guy in front never did anything to cause this. He's still going 55.
BTW, I'll be 60 in a few months and it took me that long to even attempt to grow out of it, and it's an ongoing process. Just realize that it's pretty much out of your control, and how you choose to deal with it either contributes to or diminishes your quality of life.
I suggest books on tape. Podcasts. Good music. It makes the drive much more relaxing.
Be careful about pushing for two lane roads being converted to 4 lane roads to better handle the traffic. That just brings more development and more people. Then you get Dollar General Stores, gas stations, speedy marts, smoke shops, and you end up moving out further again.
