Lone-wolf

Despite feeling the forum is on a go slow both in terms of loading speed/page refresh and some key members leaving, just wanna say im stopping on here, hoping it will all pick up in time

Same here mate 

Forum speed doesnt bother me too much but like some other comments, RC still feels like a very niche hobby.  Good locations are my biggest issue with the hobby having got back into it.  I have large and small scale stuff and finding the right spots is still a bit of a struggle.  My local area is being rapidly covered in housing with farmland just disappearing.

The other battle is that somewhere good for RC, is probably full of dogs/walkers.  

Oh and breakages/issues do seem fairly common which can make the hobby more expensive.  I ran my 90's Tamiya hard as a kid and I don't recall anything breaking.  Probably because it was so slow compared to what we have available now but that still plays a part I think for people dipping their toes in the hobby.