@jayeless @Cheri While it gives me no pleasure that Australia has the same problem, there is some thin comfort to find out that the US is not alone. I think you are right as too the cause as well. A smaller factor might be that neither the US or Australia has a lot of really old man-built stuff like Europe and many parts of Asia has. We are young countries without a lot of built to really really last examples to inspire us: (eg. Roman roads, Great Walls, castles, cathedrals, temples.)