It’s probably been years since people even thought about the weather. Florida is just where you go when you get too old for the northeast.
Here’s where I live. Our back garden is about the same area as our house, it has lots of trees so is very private. What I find strange when I visit the US is that backyards are often open, no fences, no privacy.
Ah, Chandler. My buddy was going to school there and I visited him for a week. I love Arizona, but I noticed the same thing about the yards.
How do you make the locations into links?
I think this is regional. When I moved from California to Michigan, I couldn’t believe how many houses didn’t have fences around their yards. Do people in the Midwest really want all of their neighbors able to see everything they do in their yards? It’s just weird.
Depends where you’re at in Michigan. Here, we’ve got fences. In the 'burbs, you’ve got no fences, unless they’re electronic.
I think it’s a mentality of “Well, what do you have to HIDE, hmmmmmm?”
In the suburbs, even where we have fences, it’s almost always in the back yard only, and only really justifiable if you have a dog. Otherwise fences are considered “an eyesore”. We like our wide open flat spaces around here. With houses on 1/8 acre lots, the openest you can get is if no one has a fence, so you have the illusion of having a bigger yard, even though it’s not all yours. For years, green coated chain link was preferable to wood, not only because it’s cheaper, but because from a short distance, it’s more or less invisible.
My neighborhood is about 100 years old, and the yards are small. As others have posted up-thread, that’s a plus to me and to my husband. We have enough yard to have a very cool deck, some grass and a small herb/veggie garden but it takes about 30 minutes to mow.
Now the REAL pain is in the fall. We have lots of trees and the raking gets to be ridiculous. Oh well, it’s well worth it to live here and I’m going to miss it when our house sells and I join my husband in Boston.