If America and Canada were too far, then Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and etc would have probably lived alone too. /random
And going my geography, colonies/etc that were further away would have also had to be more self sufficient, even if their military was funded by their sovereign nation and so on. So that could be another reason for them to stay at their own place.
EDIT: wait I wasn't done with my train of thought. But yeah, back to occupations, countries that have to be forced to obey have higher military presence and so on and so live with the sovereign nation where as countries that play nice- like Denmark and sort of France (though there's the whole resistance movement and so on)- get more leeway and are allowed to stay in their homes.
Re: Curiosity time if we're getting into general discussion
And going my geography, colonies/etc that were further away would have also had to be more self sufficient, even if their military was funded by their sovereign nation and so on. So that could be another reason for them to stay at their own place.
EDIT: wait I wasn't done with my train of thought. But yeah, back to occupations, countries that have to be forced to obey have higher military presence and so on and so live with the sovereign nation where as countries that play nice- like Denmark and sort of France (though there's the whole resistance movement and so on)- get more leeway and are allowed to stay in their homes.