RE: outback (was tlug: ppp works beautifully thanks to everyone's help, but...)

["Jonathan Byrne - 3Web" <jq@example.com>]

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help, but...)

>What I wanted to say is: just a little bit west ( well, maybe 30
>km or so ) from Kashihara the world literally ends. As is usual
>in Japan, you pass from populated areas abruptly into
>unpopulated ones, without much of a transition.

I dunno.  I've never seen any place in Honshu or Kyushu that I would
describe as unpopulated, just less densely populated.  Perhaps this just
comes from the fact that North America is so relatively empty, but I'm
always amazed by what people consider to be "inaka" here.   I think most of
it wouldn't even come close to being called rural in the U.S. or Canada.
What are the rural areas like in Europe?  (Straying pretty far from Linux
topics, but . . . :-)    ).

Jonathan

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