I can honestly see Mal's point about the matter, but my outlook was a bit more broad range.
I mean, sure, there's plenty of grandeur to behold right at home... but some of the more spectacular sights are going to be extra-solar. And when you have the entire galaxy to play around in, good old Sol System is just your locale neighborhood.
As for the amount of time it takes for humanity to spread it's roots... Actually colonizing these places is taking time because time is what it takes to build proper self-sustaining settlements. Unreal estate is the quick and dirty method, as Bob has proven with Grover's Corners... but even then that takes a lot of time and no small amount of capitol. Just imagine what building a real space-city from the ground up is like! (Surely the building of Kandor is a story unto itself and one that is begging to be told in the format of that miniseries, America: The Story Of Us.)
I mean, sure, there's plenty of grandeur to behold right at home... but some of the more spectacular sights are going to be extra-solar. And when you have the entire galaxy to play around in, good old Sol System is just your locale neighborhood.
As for the amount of time it takes for humanity to spread it's roots... Actually colonizing these places is taking time because time is what it takes to build proper self-sustaining settlements. Unreal estate is the quick and dirty method, as Bob has proven with Grover's Corners... but even then that takes a lot of time and no small amount of capitol. Just imagine what building a real space-city from the ground up is like! (Surely the building of Kandor is a story unto itself and one that is begging to be told in the format of that miniseries, America: The Story Of Us.)