Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

I live in England, where we seem to be stuck in this frustrating mix of metric and imperial measurement.

We use miles almost exclusively for long distances (no road signs have kilometres) but feet and meters interchangeably for anything shorter. Depending on who you’re speaking to, and it really doesn’t seem to an age or class thing (at least where I live), you have to adjust which you use because people tend to get a bit funny with you if you use the “wrong” one.

For example, when people buy tobacco the vast majority ask for it in imperial weight - even though the packaging is 100% metric. It’s a very odd combination of ways of measuring and must be even more confusing for the young’uns.

Don’t even get me started on what happens when you go from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland - daftness.

It doesn’t really matter which you use but I wish they’d just pick one and run with it.

It’s like this in Canada as well, though to a lesser degree. That’s mostly the fault of our stubborn neighbours to the south, however, who keep sending us stuff with non-metric measurements on it…(well, maybe not mostly–imperial units for measuring height and weight just seem to have stuck).