Not going to lie OP I’m much like you. I load her up get to the globe and I either milk for 15 minutes or 95% of the time I load up my local airfield and do local circuits out of there.
I fly out of YLTV Traralgon, Australia, it’s not much, its rural, but it looks so much like home in game that I’m quite happy to just do circuits or fly within 20nm of home.
You don’t always have to have grand plans of seeing the world, sometimes seeing your own backyard from a different perspective makes the whole sim worthwhile.
Give me 50 thousand airports but you know what, I love the 4 to 5 around me.