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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5230222" data-attributes="member: 1">Sure. But you don't drive it as part of your daily routine (to get to work, to buy groceries, to drop the kids off at school - for those that have them). The daily "bubble" is probably similar in size, and the mind tends to think in terms of the daily bubble. Occasional longer distance trips - you'd be more likely to drive them than I would due to the lack of long straight roads here, but we're not less likely to travel them. I don't consider it a major undertaking to catch a train or a plane. Maybe it's better summarised as "we'd be willing to drive less far"; but that's not a function of country size, it's a function of traffic density, winding roads, and fuel prices (as you mentioned). I think I'm just as willing to travel 500 miles as you are; I'd just choose not to drive it. But a country's borders doesn't affect that - it's just an arbitrary line. If where you want to go is on the other side of it, you travel over it; nobody's constrained by a wall (well, not anymore, anyway). Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything; it's not like it matters.  Just saying I don't subscribe to that school of thought, and I'm not convinced that most people do.</blockquote>