Yeah, like I said, I think it's mainly due to the fact that it's so far removed from the US. It's incredibly different (both as a whole, and then each individual country has it's own differences, of course; but countries here are far more similar to each other than they are to the US ...excluding the UK. heh), and across a huge ocean, and everything... so even though we of course know it's comprised of many individual countries, it's just natural to view it as one large foreign thing, until getting more specific. *shrugs*

Thanks ^_^ I've found the travel comms really useful, and I know tons of others have also. When you've never been somewhere before, getting tips from those who have is nearly invaluable! ^^

Ooh, kool, I just joined. Hopefully lots of comms will get active with this new surge of users. ^_^