I must admit that I also hate large groups of people, I don't even go south very often to see the kids, preferring to wait until they visit here...
I swear that I can smell people, as soon as I hit Dunbarton.
I had a shock when I first joined the Army, I went from a hillbilly country setting to Singapore, that was then the biggest city in the world, and it shocked me to my roots, and I have hated anything other than the smallest towns ever since
A major part of survival is invisibility.