re: #289 HappyWarrior

I think it’s because for much of recorded history, people really didn’t really leave home that much. Maybe it’s since proven false but the old saying about the average person not going 50 miles from where they were born pre-industiral revolution rings true here. Plus communities were a lot smaller. Even today, the villages where my ancestors from Europe emigrated from have few than 2000 people. It actually makes the tales of our own ancestors all the more extraordinary IMO.

50 miles? I’d bet that most of humanity, once agriculture was created, didn’t go more than 20. Nomadic people excepted, of course. Hell, where I grew up, everyone stayed within a few miles of their parents.

My family? The closest one is 80 miles from our hometown and the farthest is in the middle of the Pacific!