Overall it seems to me like different living situations, different geographical locations and different cultures end up creating people with vastly different perspectives. Put all of these people in the same location and after a while they think a bit alike, or at least "a bit alike" within a spectrum which gets smaller, and very uncommon to find those "outside of the spectrum" when you're actually in a physical space, limited to talking person by person.

I feel like the pervasiveness of the internet makes it much easier to find those perspectives that exists outside the norm, and I guess those are more interesting to me as I don't find those around me always, only under certain circumstances or even just happenstance.

So I guess my mind didn't go to "large community around me where I am" because I'd fear they still wouldn't posses, even less gain, those "fresh" perspectives that I seek.

I didn't feel you being accusatory FWIW, and always appreciate when people think about and question what I think, so thank you.