[HPFGU-Movie] why I was uncomfortable with the Aunt Marge scene

[Suzanne Chiles]

Yes, but I thought we were talking about cities and
their suburban
areas, not the rural and country areas.

Suzanne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: artsylynda at aol.com [mailto:artsylynda at aol.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:36 AM
> To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] why I was uncomfortable
with the 
> Aunt Marge scene
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/16/2004 5:09:38 AM Eastern
Standard Time, 
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> I'm sure there are
> parts of US where
> land is cheap and the lots are huge, but that is
most
> certainly NOT a
> true statement for much of USA.
> 
> Suzanne
> I'm sorry, I just have to comment on this.  As I sit
in my 
> house on its 2 
> acre lawn, with 32 acres of pasture and crop land
around it 
> (in Ohio), horses and 
> goats in the field, I'm looking across the highway
at houses 
> with 2-5 acre 
> lots -- those that aren't 600+ acre farms
themselves.  Those 
> who live on the 
> "right and left coasts" of the US tend to forget
that the 
> VAST MAJORITY of the 
> USA is open land, where we have big yards, hundreds
of acres 
> of farmland, many 
> miles between towns.  Talk to somebody from Wyoming
about 
> houses all close 
> together and hear the laughter there.  Cities all
across the 
> country do have PARTS 
> where the people all live on top of each other (not
my cup of 
> tea, farm girl 
> me), but in actuality, the vast majority of the USA
is still 
> land-rich, and 
> you don't have to be rich to have a lot of land --
it all 
> depends on where you 
> live.  And those of us who live on farms would
prefer you 
> townies to stay in 
> town and not try to crowd us out, thank you very
much!  
> Please, have a nice long 
> drive across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado -- the towns
are few 
> and far between. 
>  Even driving through Ohio, Indiana and Illinios can
be 
> endlessly boring 
> because it's just miles and miles of nothing but
miles and 
> miles of corn and 
> soybean fields.  Yes, from Boston to New York City
down to 
> Richmond VA is vastly 
> overpopulated, as is the entire coast of California.
 But go 
> inland -- and there 
> are wide open spaces, one of the many joys of living
in the USA.
> 
> All that said -- I'm very grateful to the Brits on
here who 
> clue us in on how 
> things really are over there.  One of these days,
I'll get to 
> see it myself, 
> if I'm lucky, but in the meantime, it's really nice
to know 
> which parts of the 
> Potter movies show "real life in England" versus
some 
> filmmaker's imagined 
> images of life in England.
> 
> And all THAT said -- I enjoyed the Aunt Marge scene
-- it was 
> laugh out loud 
> funny!  I was surprised Dudley had no lines at all,
but him 
> getting hit with 
> her buttons -- twice! -- was priceless! And his
ignoring her 
> "leaving" after 
> all that, was very Dudley-like.  heehee
> 
> 
> Lynda 
> * * *
> ". . .the cat's among the pixies now." Mrs. Figg,
OoP
> 
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