In England, you can drive two miles and be in a whole new village. The accent will be totally different from the previous village and you may not know anyone, even if you have lived in the other village all of your life. In Australia, you can drive fifty miles for a loaf of bread. Your neighbours can be so far away they ring you up or speak to you on the two-way radio to say hello, but they still think of you as their neighbour. I once worked in an area in the Northern Territory that was so remote they flew planes to get to the nearest pub. The little airstrip would be full of single and
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