Hmmmm.... it would be an interesting experiment to see how "Australian" you would feel if you moved back to Britain. Moving to Australia at the age of ten might have given you a sort of "perpetual outsider's" view on life.

In any case I'm inclined to think that fandom in general, and this particular corner of LOM fandom in particular, tends to attract "outsiders" of one sort or another. We certainly don't seem to fit into celebrity-magazine-reality-tv-sport! mainstream culture, though we do tend to squee! over our own idols!