click for A Texan's view of the United States . There's serious research behind these and similar (cognitive) subjective maps (I failed to find "A Londoner's view of the North of Britain" and "Ronald Reagan: How he sees the world"). Nearly any person will underestimate distances between points far away from home. There's a kind of mental "Blow Up" of the immediate surroundings compared to abroad. (And I guess this is not restricted to geography)

Wolfgang