[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British suburbs

[Kathryn Cawte]

OK so firstly I should say I'm commenting on this when I haven't seen the
film yet.
But from what you've all said - yes there are areas like that (whether they
re quite as ;arge I don't know). It's probably one of the areas they built
in the late 40s/early 50s. Getting peole out of slum filled/bombed out
London. Suburbia hell.

And it's entirely possible there are areas like that in Surrey (the only bit
of Surrey I know well is Royal Holloway so I can't be sure). After all
Berkshire has a similar reputation to Surrey and I live in central Windsor
(which is expensive), as you move further out you get the posh and costly
type of houses that you were referring to - but 5 minutes in the other
direction is Slough.

K

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 20 November 2002 21:58:42
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British suburbs

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Melody" <Malady579 at h...> wrote:
> Given that we all know the house the Dursley's live and this 
question
> is not really about the movie, I have a OT question. :)
> 
> In the beginning of CoS there was a wide shot of the neighborhood 
the
> Dursley's live in. The houses were perfectly matching and went on
> forever. I was actually shocked and wondered...do y'all have 
suburbs
> like that? Are they full of the same house repeating over and over
> all the same color all the same style? How terribly depressing. No
> back yard. Barely a front yard. Is this normal for England?
> 
> 
> Melody

I was half annoyed and half highly amused.
Yes, there are a lot of boring suburbs, but the acres and acres of 
*identical* housing of that sort of vintage don't really exist , (do 
they, Dave?). Acres and acres of Victorian terraces up north, yes, 
but that's a different matter. Artistic license, I think.