You will get bored with flying around the local cabbage patch eventually
I can't agree with that, and I'm sure there's more out there who just enjoy being UP THERE!
I can't understand why they carry on
I can. The local area is never the same twice for allsorts of reasons, different crops at different times of year, different light giving different shadows, new buildings, buildings dissapearing, floods, tides, etc. I fly so I can look down on a living map, I don't want to fly in bad weather or in the dark. In twenty years I have done some landaways, had some good days out with the wife and kids, but I will never be bored with Fleetwood-Garstang-Kirkham.