What dont you like about this hobby

[torikoos]

Lack of diversity among modelers. Face it, go to a train show and 90% of people there fit a certain age/sex/socioeconomic and sometimes political demographic. It happens with many hobbies, and I am not sure why that is. But, I think model railroading could use more input from women and the younger crowd, as well as from different cultures. New perspectives could keep things fresh and exciting.

Well, I'm from the netherlands, living in the UK, working throughout europe (currently in France), and am therefore far from retirement age (which seems to be the current average age of railroad modelers in the UK, the younger generations have their playstations etc...) enough variety there to fill in the culture and younger bit , can't help you with the female bit, and for that matter, my wife shakes her head and gives me a ' you sad, sad person ' look when I mention trains....:-)