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My girlfriend's parents are from small rural communities and still live in one. Just last weekend we got to hear all about how there was a roundabout installed, and "traffic is going to be messed up" and "it is so confusing" and "why can't we just have the stop sign back?".
No amount of telling them facts to the contrary will change their opinion because they're also of the generation that thinks: if this isn't how we've always done it, it must be wrong, because we've always been the best.
Small town folk when they approach a round about:
Crying hillbilly Flea
"We don't want it to change because that is how it was and if you change it then it won't be that, that's why we can't change it"
I hope enough experience with roundabouts will change their mind. It does generally feel more efficient/quicker to me most of the time when I go through one. I am not waiting at a stop light, which is pretty mind numbing.