My daughter was bemused by that comment because she thinks that we don't look that different from the U.K. Of course, her experience of that is mainly London and the interesting B&B at which we stayed in Wales, which was a converted servants' quarters on an estate-turned-winery.
I'm guessing it's mainly the front porches (verandas) on the houses and the very 1950s shopping block showing behind the pavilions of the vendors at the farmers market? Also, U.S. suburban homes tend to have largish front yards (gardens) compared with British/Scottish houses in similarly dense neighborhoods, and we tend toward lawns rather than flowerbeds in them. Also, the yards run into each other for the most part, rather than having walls or hedges.
I'll have to shoot some more pictures around the neighborhood for you!
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Date: 2015-04-14 02:02 am (UTC)My daughter was bemused by that comment because she thinks that we don't look that different from the U.K. Of course, her experience of that is mainly London and the interesting B&B at which we stayed in Wales, which was a converted servants' quarters on an estate-turned-winery.
I'm guessing it's mainly the front porches (verandas) on the houses and the very 1950s shopping block showing behind the pavilions of the vendors at the farmers market? Also, U.S. suburban homes tend to have largish front yards (gardens) compared with British/Scottish houses in similarly dense neighborhoods, and we tend toward lawns rather than flowerbeds in them. Also, the yards run into each other for the most part, rather than having walls or hedges.
I'll have to shoot some more pictures around the neighborhood for you!