Because the community is about 90% US residents, they get most of the resources here. This is a bit unfair for all the others, so we try to help them out by giving them their own areas. There are many aspects that are locally variable so this helps. Vendors, mail & shipping, laws, even English dialects all mainly apply locally not globally. But when you read or take part in the bulk of the forum it's mostly US, so others need their own local spaces. The US e-cig community is ten or twenty times the size of any other.