why I was uncomfortable with the Aunt Marge scene

[Mandy]

> > side fairly quickly (this isn't the USA, where there
> are huge spaces 
> > between houses). And virtually all of them have a
> traffic 
> > roundabout at 
> > their entrance. :-)
> 
> Huge spaces between houses? Well, between very, very
> expensive houses
> maybe. But on the US West coast, where I live, even
> expensive homes,
> costing over $500,000 each, are very often on small
> lots with very
> little space between the homes. 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.


  Hi Suzanne, just a short comment about your post. I've lived all 
over the US and I must say that the West coast is in it's own little 
world in regards to the housing market. ;)

  England and how they arrange their towns is very different from 
the US. Even in the small towns of England the houses are still 
pretty close together. They don't have a lot of land there and the 
building codes are strict. In most, not all, of America once you get 
out of the city to the burbs and small towns, most houses have a 
little land. In England they have either no land or perhaps a very 
small garden area. I have spent a small amount of time touring 
around England and a lot of time touring around America and 
your 'very small space between homes' is way more than they have. 
Homes and land over there are also way more expensive than here, 
even in comparison to West coast prices. ;~)

  It is totally true about those #$#&*) roundabouts. I really don't 
like them. They are really scary, especially since the cars go the 
opposite way around the circle than we Americans. 

 ande