Once you are involved in the aviation business you tend to gain a better appreciation that a strip on concrete, licenced, unlicenced, disused or the like can make all the difference when you have a problem in the air. Seeing people out walking their dogs on disused aerodromes on a sunny afternoon I often think that they probably have no inkling that the guy or lass at 2000' is thinking along the lines of " well if I have a problem now I can just put her down over there".