Bu-bu-but… what about those poor expats living in places other than America? What about people living in their own country? 
(we really need a crying-its-heart-out smiley)
Go, Ike! I could learn from you 
Yes, I play the ukes.
Not really an option at the moment, but I wouldn’t fly a flag unless I had the time and resource to do it and care for it properly. If you fly a flag and just leave it out until it’s filthy and tattered, why even bother?
nope, never.
I chose “always” but it’s really more St Patrick’s Day to Thanksgiving, -ish. We don’t fly them when snow can cover up the lights and we fly both the US and the Minnesotan flag.
To be honest though, it’s not due to some extreme love of state and country, but more decorative. The house was built in the post-Victorian/burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and straddles both and is decorated in an amalgam of different artistic eras and movements (we have a mission-era dining room, art deco living room, a suffragist-themed guest bedroom, etc). Not having a US flag makes the house feel like it’s missing something.
I bought my flag at WalMart. Any discount store (WalMart, Target, KMart) carries flags, even the local grocery store (Jewel) carries flags.
I think it’s kind of weird that flying the flag is seen as right-wing. I am about as far from right-wing as possible without being a complete crackpot, but I like to have the flag on the front of our house. I agree with whoever above said they love the country even though they don’t trust the government. Yeah, the government is a pack of idiots on both sides of the aisle. What does that have to do with being happy to live here and flying the flag in respect of that?
We fly one because it came with the house when we bought it.
It makes our skull n crossbones look more authentic.
I’m Canadian and I think that our attitude is sort of a hybrid of the US enthusiasm (when it’s there) and the attitude of the other nationalities.
IME, for private residences, you will tend to see Cdn flags in rural areas more than anywhere. I also don’t think that they would be ubiquitous but those flying them wouldn’t be regarded as right or left wing or anything else for that matter.
I love Canada and the Canadian flag and would cheerfully fly it despite having no earthly reason to do so. Lester Pearson was Da Bomb.
I’d fly it but I have no pole at my current house. I wouldn’t do it to prove my patriotism, the flag i wore on my shoulder for six years did that, I would do it to remind myself and others of the great nation I live in and the sacrifices made to create it. Yes we are not perfect but we’re a lot better than many give us credit for.
Flags are beloved of nationalists, and nationalism is inherently right wing. The Nazis were kidding about the Socialism but were dead serious about the Nationalist part of their party’s name.
It’s true that Commies were/are not averse to stirring up nationalistic sentiment if it suits them to do so, but the left is, at heart, internationalist, and the right is nationalist.
Which is why non-Americans look at the US flag fetish with suspicion and distaste. Flags are all well and good, but treating them like magical talismans is, frankly, pretty creepy and highly reminiscent of every fascist dictatorship ever.
I have two small (8x12ish) Canadian flags on sticks, which I place in the matched urns holding flowers in the front garden, for Canada Day.
Then I put them away for another year!
No, because I don’t want to put it up at sunrise and take it down at sunset every day. Someday that may change. Also they really need to be on a pole, and I don’t have a pole. Maybe when we move into our forever house I’ll get one.
We’ve never flown a flag. It’s not something I’d do anyway (it’s definitely associated with right-wing politics in my mind), but it would really stand out in my current neighborhood. There’s one Israeli-American family that flies the US flag on some occasions, the Israel flag on other occasions, and then a whole bunch of different flags during the World Cup. There’s a house down the way that flies a flag with a picture of the planet on it - I think that’s kind of neat. The local real estate agent plants little plastic flags in everyone’s front yard around Memorial Day. But other than that, I can’t think of anyone who regularly flies a political flag.
Most of the households in my neighborhood have at least one government employee or contractor. Maybe everyone gets enough flag-waving at the office?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that it’s common in Denmark, without those political overtones. But one doesn’t often see it in other European countries, except on special occasions like a national day.
“The flag”? Um, I have some irises in the front yard, but what’s “the flag”?
The Stars and Stripes? Not me, no. A brief childhood stint in scouts convinced me that the US Flag Code was too nitpicky and weird for me to want to mess with that…object of idolatry, myself.
We fly the flag on national holidays, not every day though. The local Lions (?) club has a fund-raiser where they have a recessed holder in the boulevard and take care of putting it up and taking it down on holidays. Our neighbor does that; I have to do it manually.
Our lakehouse had a flag flying all the time, but they just seem to get ripped to shreds (and the cheap aluminum poles get bent in the wind). I took that one down, although I don’t think anyone noticed because EVERY OTHER HOUSE there has one flying all the time. On the other hand, they probably think I’m some kind of commie-loving pinko because I took it down. Oh well…
I consider myself a citizen first of the Kingdom of God, US citizenship is provided for me for my mission on earth, will fly it if needed, but the earthly rulerships are pathetic and cruel (would be laughable if not so cruel) and I do not support them.
You can not serve two masters.