once you get into extended backpacking & expedition mountaineering internationally, you will appreciate the white gas stoves.
I grew up doing this in Europe - there it is much easier to get canisters than white gas. If fact, I don't recall anyone ever using such a stove there in the 80s. If you mean the other continents, I am pretty sure I will not "get into" that. Simply can't afford it. I can barely afford the gas to go to California as often as I want to.
