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Old 09-16-2007, 09:04 AM   #12
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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cookie cutter neighborhoods with one neverending front lawn
(flashback to 1978, 14-year olds in Sheffield Yorks UK riding the bus to school. This is something I shall never forget as long as I live.)

Linda: Ooh, I could never live in America.
UT: Why is that?
Linda: The people are loud and obnoxious, every night you hear sirens going off... but worst of all, in every neighborhood all the houses are exactly alike.

Satellite image of the road we were on when she said that (it hasn't changed since):

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