I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

