On: RMS lifestyle

[keithpeter]

True, although we did manage it in the UK. Hard to see how that casts any light on the (apparent) contradiction.

[dllthomas → keithpeter]

You managed it over a pretty small hop, compared to what you'd have to do to get anywhere from the US.

Anyway, it casts light on the apparent contradiction simply because life is made of trade-offs. The choice to prefer (say) Greyhound (or a personal vehicle) to Amtrak is a wholly different thing than the choice to visit or not visit (say) Indonesia. The same concern may merit the former but not the latter.

[keithpeter → dllthomas]

So it is a contradiction, but one forced by circumstance.

[dllthomas → keithpeter]

That's certainly one way to look at it.