In the U.S. there probably isn’t a city block without a American flag on someone’s house. Although much less common, I’ve seen other flags here in the Northwest: Washington State and Alaska flags on commercial buildings, Military and “Don’t Tread On Me” (and even Canadian flags) on houses. How common is it to see flags in your area? And what flags are they?
My neighbors must all be commie pinkos as I have the only American flag on the block.
I kid about thrm being pinkos, but here in the land of NASCAR, over the top patriotism seems to be the norm.
Everywhere. Here in Chicago even the L cars have one on each side. You know, because of how often they ply international waters.
Yeah, we fly a lot of flags on this side of the border as well. I was talking to a guy from France who said that flags are fairly rare in France, just found on major government buildings. The average French homeowner would almost never fly a flag. I saw the same rarity of flags in Finland.
Sorry - I just had to give you a pat on the back for that one. You made me choke on my Cocoa Puffs from laughing. 
Not many flags in the residential area where I live in Regina, except for the neighbour down the street who’s the widow of a former Lieutenant Governor - she’s got a high grade flag pole with the Maple Leaf flying every day.
Flags on government buildings, of course.
This week, lots of flags on the Albert Street Bridge, crossing the Wascana, near the Legislature: the Maple Leaf, the Saskatchewan Flag, and the Union Jack, alternating down both sides of the bridge, in honour of Canada Day.
All three customarily fly over the Lege itself, plus a couple of weeks ago there was the Gay Pride flag at the Lege.
Regina City Hall is up to 6 flags now: Maple Leaf, Saskatchewan, Union Jack, City of Regina, Treaty 4, and Métis Nation.
Almost forgot: the single most common flag in these parts at this time of year is the Saskatchewan Roughriders flag!
The buses, too. And at least the ones on the sides of buses aren’t old and peeling off.
Chicago is a little unusual in that the municipal flag is quite popular, possibly even more common than the American flag. I only see the state flag very rarely (pretty much only government buildings), but to be fair, our state flag is terrible.
If you know where to look, you can see the municipal device in a few places, too. The Chicago Public Library’s logo, for instance, or on some pieces of municipal hardware like the boxes that control stoplights.
No flags in our immediate neighborhood. We have a dog-paw flag we fly on our pontoon boat, and an old style St Martin flag we fly on the patio during parties.
Some flags around. My neighbor sometimes flies an Irish flag and you spot the odd assortment of other national flags but mostly what you see are decorative (angels, pets, etc) or sports teams.
If I see one more person with that damn flag tattooed on them, I swear to God…
Same as the city buses around Tokyo. On national holidays, the “Hinomaru” (Japanese flag) adorns the front of the cab. Interestingly a major city bus company is named “Kokusai Kotsu” meaning “International Transport” even though the buses never leave the city. Go figure.
In most of Spain you only see them in official buildings or on the offices of political parties and labor unions, unless there’s something special going on.
In Catalonia there are lots of independentist flags currently hanging from balconies, along with some Spanish ones, but it’s because there’s something special going on: a bid for independence.
In Navarre you sometimes see flags of Euskadi (Ikurriñas) hanging on the balconies of Basquists. This often leads outsiders to think that there is a strong Basquist movement in Navarre, but they’re mistaken: all those balconies without Ikurriñas belong to non-Basquists, and we’re the immense majority.
Government buildings, private clubs etc. it’s fairly rare to see them on private residences.
We also have this.
See, I’ve seen some smaller versions of that sort of thing in much smaller places in the U.S. I think there’s even a town near here that has like a 5-country set, for some reason.