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> Right now, since there are only about 100 or so delurked LEGO fans online in
> the UK, the top-level .loc.uk group seems to be where most people prefer to
> congregate. In the US, it's a bit of a different story -- the main .loc.us
> group barely sees any traffic at all (only 24 posts as of right now) while
> the more local city groups (San Francisco, Denver, Boston, etc.) are all
> seeing more traffic.
Yeah - but I think it is a bit different in the US. I've only been to
the USA once - and I don't know if other people have found the same thing
- so tell me if anyone else disagrees...
but one of the overwhelming things I found in the USA was it didn't
feel like one country in the same way the UK does - because it was so big.
I remember watching the news - and stuff from the another State seemed
like it was another country. It was more comparable to watching the news
in Britain and seeing a report about something in France or Holland.
I mean - like - in the UK you'd just about drive most of the length of
the populated part of the country in a day if you really had to. You
wouldn't do that in the USA!
So I wonder if, when you're making comparisons for what feels local
/appropriate for a local group, it'd be better to compare the UK
(or other European countries) to a US state, rather than the USA.
Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com
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| (...) I dunno. I guess it depends on where you have relatives and how well-traveled in the US you are. I have family in both South Carolina and Texas -- and I am in Washington (state) -- so I don't feel that either Texas OR SOuth Carolina is (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) On the other hand, to someone living in Boston, events transpiring 4000 km away in San Francisco typically seem a hundred times closer than events transpiring only 400 km away in Montreal. (...) But in the USA, where petrol is (terribly (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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