Handicap too low?

[The Green Fairy]

The problem with an average is that the range of variability around it is too great, so the handicap is fixed closer to the better end of your range of scores around which the variability is less. For each handicap category, the reduction per shot below CSS is the same as the total increase for each score above buffer, so given that the typical decrease is probably around 2 or 3 shots rather than 1, that would suggest that the typical handicap is set so that you will better handicap once for every 2 or 3 times you are above buffer. Buffer scores don't affect it either way.

The US handicap system does this more explicitly based on 95% of the best 10 or the last 20 scores. This boils down to a handicap around the 75th percentile of your last 20 scores.

In both systems, even if their average score is the same, an inconsistent player will have a lower handicap than a player with a very tight range of scores.

The OP is a nomad, with a society bandicap - it matters not. My comment was to address his question, not dispute the handicap system.