I don't think you can make a blanket statement that people who don't live in major cities are insular and incurious. This is just plain and simple snobbery and

I don't think you can make a blanket statement that people who don't live in major cities are insular and incurious. This is just plain and simple snobbery and as far as I can tell there's nothing to back it up. Secondly, I wouldn't even say British holiday making habits are especially different to those of other major European nations. If you want to paint a picture of the UK being uniquely backwards and insular then fine, but it doesn't seem to be based on anything outside snobbery and prejudice. It is easy to claim that people you disagree with have all kinds of moral faults, but in doing so you become what you affect to criticise.