US view of us

[DanaC]

Interesting.

I take issue with some it though:p

The idea that all Brits iron....nah. I never iron. The notion that all brits have to hang their washing outside to dry...many people own washer dryers.

'There are no basements'....well,no: some people have basements. Depends where you live. My brother used to have a kickass basement in his house in Newark.

No walk-in closets? Again, depends where you live. My Mum has a walk-in closet upstairs.

That there are fewer of these things, I can accept. But there is a range of different housing types and sizes and a lot of regional variation.

The Brits have extremely strict zoning restrictions and there are no ‘strip malls’ — not anywhere. So you drive for an hour straight and won’t see a petrol (gas) station or any commercial building sticking out like a sore thumb.

Ummm....we have strip malls (I think - maybe not identical or as huge, but something akin). And we have petrol stations that stick out like a sore thumb...

She's mainly describing the country near to London and applying it to the whole - we have massive regional variation for such a small place (including three distinct countries - four if you count Northern Ireland). For instance, she says it drizzles, but doesn't get cold. The North of our island get very cold. I suspect she has never wintered in Yorkshire, Newcastle, or Scotland.

Other than that little bit of nitpicking it's a well-written and fair piece I think.