Pedantry: it putter not potter.

I thought the same, but they're actually interchangeable depending on where you are, so I interchange them for fun.

I think it's a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We're way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.

Perhaps at the level of statistics, but I have the opportunity to travel (now, for the first time in my life), but no desire. There's just so much to do locally, you know?