My grandparents, great aunts and uncles know the counties by heart, or at least all of them south of Sudbury and West of Kingston. They are all in their late 70s now. Their parent's parents immigrated and settled in or near Halton. Their were lots of children in each generation and they spread out all over the southern half of the province. They have stories about travelling all over for birthdays, family reunions, funerals and weddings and probably drove on almost every kilometre of highways 2 - 10 at some point. Recent generations have had the number of children per mother drop from eight to two and now one. All of my family members now live between Oshawa and Hamilton. There are no weddings or funerals in places like Clinton, Morristown, Picton, Walkerton, Stratford, Collingwood, Grimsby or Cayuga. If I wasn't as in tune to provincial issues as I am, I probably would not know where any of those places are. I'm quite sure none of my friends have ever heard of them. They mostly don't know anyone who lives out of the GTA, except possibly the ones who are from rural towns.