I have more in common with my fellow FT'ers than with some of my wife's cousins. In the US, we have Red States and Blue States. In France, they seem to have a similar division between the ordinary citroyen and the EU-philes. Every tourist-overrun region looks the same....

If you run with your fellow FT'ers and people like them, the world is small...dip into the "folds," and you'll see things very alien to your experience. Try taking a Greyhound bus between, say, Oklahoma City and Phoenix and you'll see what I mean.