in the US gardens are where you plant vegs or flowers not grass.. They are called the front yard and the back yard.. Then you have a different place where you can call your garden or multiple ones.
If there’s no homeowners’ association, you can put up any kind of fence you like, as long as it’s within the max height permitted by the town/city. If you have an HOA, you have to follow their rules. My HOA requires white for some style houses and natural wood for ours.
"Suburbs" in north America or "sub urban areas" are basically the regions just outside of large cities that are somewhat developed compared to "rural" areas which would be mostly farmland. They became popular in the 1980s as urban areas became quite expensive to live in and land just outside of town was still relatively cheap.
@@sallyintucson True, returning soldiers with money to burn got the trend going, but the "escape to the burbs" really took off in the 1980s, for awhile it became sort of a meme before memes were invented. They made movies about the subject and tv series and whatnot and "the burbs" became part of the general fabric of American (and Canadian) lifestyle
@@sallyintucson Yeah the mass movement out of urbanized cities to more residential areas with cheaper land for houses after WWII with the introduction of the G.I. Bill of 1944. This is known as the "Urban Sprawl."
You might want to watch the 1989 Tom Hanks movie The Burbs funny as all get out with just the right amount of truth to show what suburban livings like.
@9:45 In a different home I owned years ago , I used to mow my lawn regularly and I always thought it was well kept and looked good. But apparently this wasn’t good enough for one of my neighbors who was a little mentally off and had all kinds of OCD issues. I came home from work early one day to catch him mowing my lawn. I literally just waved and walked into my house as if nothing unusual was happening. I always referred to him as “ The Lawnmower Man” after that. 😂
Oh sheesh that's horrible. My first house was in California and my neighbor across the street (since we had a massive water shortage, did not water their lawn so it was just dead grass and dirt) but they would go out there every other day with a leaf blower for whatever reason. It was absolutely mental to me; to the point that my wife was convinced it was my neighbor's excuse to get away from the family.
No one likes an HOA.. If your every waking moment trying to make your house to be aesthetically pleasing... get a damn hobby that doesn't involve money blow on non-sense
There are 3 sets of suburbs: urban suburbs, middle suburbs & exurbs. The further you get from the bigger cities the more land & bigger homes you’ll generally find. The urban suburbs are generally small homes just on the outskirts of the city limits & are still within walking distance to the inner city or a very short drive. The middle suburbs are what are usually seen in many movies like Home Alone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & Christmas Vacation etc. The exurbs are basically large homes or mansions (estates) where neighbors are hundreds of feet from each other & found just before you see rural area farmland. The further you are from the big cities, the more privacy & less crime. I grew up in the middle suburbs & very little crime, great schools & very clean area. It maybe more boring, but it’s great for raising a family & very safe & a good amount of privacy.
@@TheSkyGuy77 Only if u live in them, then yes. Thank goodness I don't, just a regular neighborhood in a very small island. I walk everywhere except to work on another island. Then I drive.
@@TheSkyGuy77 I live in Key West, so if want off the islands it's 110 miles of bridges and roads in between. 1 way in, 1 way off. No choice. College in Colo, 15 miles on a dirt road for food or 20miles to college. Do u miss more people?
You should have said if people live in a homeowners association, because otherwise it sounds like everybody lives in a homeowners association and that's clearly not the case, you're going to confuse people from around the world so your comment is rated at a #2!
@@RFredrickPhotography Yeah homeowners associations are a royal pain in the ass to deal with. I managed a Landscaping company and one of the jobs we went to do was a simple tree planting in the yard. Which the home owners had to get permission from the HOA to plant it where they wanted. Well come the day of the planting we get there and start digging only to find a massive boulder where they wanted it. So the tree had to be moved a few inches to the side to be able to be planted. Well in comes the HOA and we had to wait 3 hours for them to show up, look at the area and then finally give the owner permission to move the hole SIX INCHES to the right of where it was going to originally be. Yeah that was the first and LAST HOA property we ever worked on. Just did not want to deal with the hassle of it again. That became one of the first questions for people inquiring about a landscapr job or planting...."Are you on a HOA property?....Yes?....Sorry we cannot help you."
John Hughs (died Aug 2009)… look him up and pick a movie 🎥 🍿he wrote or had anything to do with, anything from the 80s with anyone from the ‘Brat Pack’. Movies: you can’t go wrong, Home Alone, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Farris Buller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck & the list goes on. Then you’ll see the suburbs & the neighborhoods he’s referring too. Plus the movies are of us “Boomer/GenX Cusp” which is actually called the “Generation Jones” and some of us were “latchkey kids”. These are our times & movies, I like to think. Hey, they’re fun to watch 😊
John Hughes movies are made in the suburbs of Chicago so Lawrence is reflecting on his neighborhood. A yard, garden, perhaps a basketball hoop in the driveway. Some people have swimming pools too. It’s lots of upkeep but satisfying.
Some neighborhoods have covenants that only allow chain link fence, some allow bushes that are thick like a fence and some allow six or eight foot high wooden fences. In Chicago a snow blower is handy.
Yes, you can put up a white picket fence in the front, but if you live in a neighborhood with rowdy, bored teens who have access to cans of spraypaint, you're kind of asking for it. In my case, I had an all-black chain link fence installed.
Btw some corrections. Most Subs have wooden fences. To randomly put a number on it I’d say 60% wood, 30% chain, 10% stone. Another thing his neighborhood looks less “American suburban” because of different eras/regions of a city or location. Not to mention the owner of the neighborhood. You can’t out right change things on/outside of your house bc most neighborhoods (especially newer ones) you have HOA and a lot of them are strict and annoying.
The suburbs really started after world war 2 when returning soldiers started families. Cities requiring space to house them decided to build single family homes on land just outside the city limits because it was cheaper. Houses were built quickly in less than a year to accommodate these new families. Also businesses wanting some profit created a shopping center nearby. The whole thing worked as states liked the idea of suburbs. Also new county lines were drawn to incorporate these new suburbs which blossomed into towns. The idea of buying a house is quite ingrained in the American mind as a way to show independence. Theme parks came later to Orlando during the baby boom years but it’s the reason why we grew so much so fast.
We have a whole bunch of those signs around here, the ones that say "drive like your kids live here." I annoy my husband by always saying, "my kids are indoor cats, so I guess I can drive like a maniac?" He thought it was mildly funny the first time. By the 512th time, though... lol
One of the differences I noticed is that there’s a Walmart in about every suburban towns. While in England there’s a pub in every block. We lived in a small village near an RAF for 6 years & I remember there was no grocery store in the village. So we shop inside the RAF facility for groceries. My husband was in the USAF stationed in RAF Lakenheath. There’s one thing we visited a lot of Abbey, Castles, & open markets. We loved that.
Babushka dolls are the Russian (and from other countries in that general area) where you have a number of dolls of different sizes that nest one inside the next.
The cost of living, including housing, varies tremendously depending on how close the suburbs are to a major city. Though it has mitigated a bit, with the post-pandemic housing boom middle class non-mansion homes in the metropolitan areas within 30-60 minutes of a large city like New York, Philadelphia, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, etc. cost upwards of $1 million. But in less populated areas, even in the metropolitan areas near smaller cities and state capitals, the cost of the same houses is in the $300,000 to $500,000 range. I live 15 minutes from our state capital and the average home price is less than $230,000. And we live within 2.5 hours of 3 major cities.
We live on a mountaintop and don’t currently have a dog… We have a feral kitty that “adopted” my adult son and his family… She is affectionate and she keeps the rodent population controlled…❤️🐈 We live in the boonies…👍🏻😊
I lived in the city as a child, then moved to the suburbs in my 20's and now I live in a rural area and love it! I'm only 10 minutes from our small town but my home is on 1 acre of land surrounded by farms where they grow corn one year then soybeans the next. So peaceful and my home was only 6 years old when I bought it and it was a very reasonable price for a single mom with 2 boys and 2 dogs. I also went with chain link fencing do to the low cost and the durability. Wooden fencing rots to quickly and plastic fencing gets mold and breaks to easily.
6:54 Quite right, James Chain link fences are much more low-maintenance and sturdier than a picket fence With a picket fence, you're having to do loads of maintenance, such as replacing replacing parts that are broken or othherwise damaged, keeping it cleaned or even repainting or refinishing the fence
My mom had a friend who retired to eastern Florida. Her "lawn" was literally covered for the grass to die. Light colored rocks covered the entire thing so she and her husband never had to worry about cutting the grass.
In the dry southwest, a gravel-covered yard is the norm. I one time started laughing in Wal-Mart when I saw they were selling lawn mowers,. In Tucson, I've never seen an actual live grass lawn except on a golf course where they use recycled water.
garden=a place where you plant flowers or vegetables yard=a grassy area around a house Is there a reason that Lawrence doesn’t drive? That’s really odd, a grown man in the suburbs who doesn’t drive
He just recently got his DL. As long as they only have 1 car, I doubt he will start to drive, he seems a little off put by driving. It might be he has lived in some cities where the drivers are considered nuts. Give him 10 or so years or a need to getcto the emergency vet and he is the only one home with the car
The big thing about where I used to live, in the Bay Area of California, is that the new houses were these massive 5+ bedroom houses on a plot of land that it could barely fit so it had the tiniest back and side yards. These were all over new development and I never understood why.
Yea that’s Cali… head a state over to Nevda or Colorado you get more space. Then if you go to Texas you get that same 5+ bed with hella yard space for like 1/2 to 2/3s of the price. It’s so weird. But understandable at the same time.
If you own the land and you were not dumb getting a HoA then you can change your fence. You can do anything except build onto your home. You have to have a permit to expand your home.
You can't always change things on your own property. Some areas have covenants that restrict what you can and cannot do. Some places require you to get approval for any changes. Most older areas do not have covenants, but pretty much all areas in incorporated towns have upkeep requirements like cutting the yard and shoveling snow off walks. Most neighborhoods have similar houses because they are usually built by the same company and only 7 or 8 models are usually available. In more spread out areas or areas where plots are developed individually there can be wide variation in styles and sizes. Las Vegas is famous for mansions next to hovels.
Fences are usually regulated as they effect one's neighbors. Solid tall fences are usually kept to the rear of a house and may or may not require negotiating with neighbors if they are solid ( they restrict sunlight and air flow.) Fences to the front are usually kept low to allow fire, EMTS and police to locate your address in emergencies. My experience: the smaller the yard, the more likely the flowers and landscaping. Gardening requires time and money. A very big house and grounds will have a gardening service.
A suburb is within a major city transport time I say half an hour to an hour. I live in a suburb of Orlando which is 15 minutes away which is easy access to downtown Orlando with 20 minutes to Disney and universal. Honestly it’s quiet which is nice. And the major businesses are a 5 minute bike ride away. It’s a good place to be especially as a young family. You just observe how the neighborhood changes and usually it does. The odd thing is I’m sandwiched between two major thoroughfares which is good for car traffic but terrible sometimes as loud trucks can screech by.
People speed through residential areas and so often, a homeowner will place a gentle reminder about slowing down on their front parkway, which is the patch of grass nearest the road.
Yes, you could change up your fence if you wanted to. Subject to the building department that covers that type of thing, Home owners association, county building dept or city building dept.
My entire neighborhood is full of flower gardens and any fences that we have are iron or wood (no chain link). I’m in Florida so yard work is year round. 😅
I rarely see someone with an actual picket fence. The usual fence styles in Florida suburbs are the tall wooden fences, white vinyl, and black aluminum. Some older suburbs will have chain link fences. But nowadays a lot of people in suburbs don't have fences, the developers don't put em up and the buyers don't bother either esp golfing communities.
I was going to comment the same, growing up in South Florida we had a tall wooden fence in the backyard but no fence in the front yard. Also, you can replace your fence as a homeowner but it’s very expensive and as a Floridian, where hurricanes take your fence down fairly frequently, you get screwed. And to top it all off, hurricane insurance no longer covers fences when they get blown away so it’s up to you to pay and have it replaced after each storm.
My neighborhood, which is in the burbs, has a Home Owner’s Association (HOA) that mandates how the exterior of our homes are maintained. They have to be a certain color, kept mowed and landscaped, have a limit of cars parked in the driveway and they even have rules around fences. We can only fence our backyards and chain link fencing is not permitted. The joys of living in an HOA neighborhood in the burbs!
It was great I like Lawrence everything he talked about though was just pertaining to the northern Midwest area particularly the Chicagoland area especially the mansion guess small house type of thing that's a real the Midwest Chicagoland type of thing. You go to different regions of America an experienced Suburban America and you have a totally different experience from other parties
My next door neighbors bought their house for over $500,000 but they have never mowed the lawn or water it for that matter. Unfortunately, you can't pick your neighbors. Most everyone else on our block keeps their yards nicely. There is always at least one.
As far as White picket fences some cities have Laws or ordinances that regulate whether you can have a fence and if you can what kind you can have. The city I live in you can't have any fence in your front lawn, but you can have any kind of fence you want for your back yard.
As for green grass. It depends on where you live. Where I grew up if you don’t water it your grass it dies and can’t come back. Where I am now few people water in the summer so the grass dies but comes back in the fall.
Fences and how maintained yards are depends on city regulations and whether or not you live in an HOA (home owners association). We do NOT live in an HOA, but our city does have some basic rules about fence height, mostly to make sure it doesn’t block views around corners and such. As long as we don’t want something crazy tall, we can do whatever kind of fence we want-most are wood or vinyl in our area. We live in the desert, so our state no longer allows regulations/rules requiring green grass b/c there just isn’t enough water. There were so many stories about people literally painting their grass green because their HOA was giving out fines for yellow grass 🤦🏻♀️
We will do yard signs for anything. Sports, politics, just had/adopted a baby, graduation, birthday, religious messages, seasonal signs, Hanks Lawn cuts my grass, literally anything! LOL
Great video, Bees! There's been a relatively new thing to take the place of the white picket fences. Now, a lot of these fences are made of PVC. It's very neat, very sturdy and a pass with the hose, while watering the grass, keeps it very bright white.
unfortunately it depends on the city, county, or even HOA, etc.. u would have to get permits, or essentially permission to build anything on land you "own", some HOAs have rules against things. like how tall a fence could be, or the color, how much of your property or what veiw it blocks, etc material, brick wood plastic chainlink (old pallets) some may not be allowed
I have lived my entire life in the suburbs. My college was in the suburbs, my job was in the suburbs and now in retirement, I live in the suburbs. The city is just a place to visit but wouldn't want to live there.
I hate the manicured lawns that are so common here. They are boring and environmentally bad as well. I love when I see someone's yard full of flowers and other plants. In those yards you tend to see bigger varieties of insects and animals.
You’re telling me! I live in California and drought has been an “issue” since Day One (1850). Also, I wasn’t born in this country and I always thought that when you have a lawn you need servants to tend to it. I hate “peasant” work, I didn’t go to college for that.
Also, a lot of factors depend on the area, and some subdivisions have HOAs were they require you to keep the grass a certain way. I'm poor, so my neighborhoods have never been that way lol, but I had friends in nicer subdivisions that really did have all the stuff you see in movies.
He could change his fence as long as he doesn't live in a HOA-- a Homeowners Association. When you live in a neighborhood with a HOA you agree to obey the rules of the neighborhood. These rules normally regulate what you can and cannot do with your home. I will bet that he doesn't live in a HOA. I live in a HOA in Florida and everyone who wants to live in the neighborhood must pay dues sign an agreement before buying the home.
I dislike the signs that say, “Slow children playing” I don’t know if they mean drive slow or if there are children with challenges playing. Need to change the wording on those😂😂
You have to get a permit from the City to remove the old fence and also put the new one in, and the City charges money for the permits, and they have all kinds of questionable rules one has to do to to be in compliance with the City
As an American I don't get putting milk in tea🤮🤮. I also don't understand calling a cookie a biscuit and fried potato slices are chips. Or a shopping cart is a trolley.
white picket fences are more homey & quaint, not a rich people situation. I just had to remove a picket fence from my MIL's garden because it was rotted in some areas and she decided she didn't like the way it looked anymore but it lasted maybe 10 years? So, yeah....chain link would be lower maintenance but most people would not use them in an area they were concerned about something being aestetically pleasing
In some areas there are homeowner associations and they tend to want everything to look the same so sometimes they won't allow you to change your fencing homeowner associations are basically Karen's.
You can definitely have whatever kind of fence you want. But if you live in an area settled by Scandinavians, it's considered insulting to your neighbors.
Now there are also exurbs, suburbs of the suburbs. The white-picket fence in the suburbs is one of the features of the mythical American Dream. That said, I just watched a show titled “Love & Death based on real events that took place in Wylie, TX, population at the time under 4,000 in June 1980 when a suburban housewife killed another suburban housewife by hitting her 41 times with an axe. I’d suggest that Lawence be careful in his suburb because appeareances are deceiving.
The suburbs in the US: 100 to 600 single family homes in 5 not unique styles. Each one 6" from your neighbor's house and 10" of front yard and 20" of backyard (garden or allotment), Personal vehicles are absolutely necessary because the chance of having a functional public transit system is just a little bit lower than 0%. Somewhere between 5 and 20 strip malls for your shopping pleasures. Lots and lots of chain restaurants, gas station/convenience stores, 1 or 2 regional chain grocery stores. Anywhere from a 30 minute to 2 hour drive each way, Monday thru Friday to go to work. AND!!!!!! You Don't Own The home You Pay Each Month For. It's owned by the local HOA (Home Owners Association), the bank, the local tax assessor, the utility companies (electric and/or natural gas), and when they get their shares you get what's left.
White picket fences aren't really a rich person thing at all. They're way too inexpensive for the rich. Rich people live in gated communities. If they have fences they are large iron ones. White picket fences are more of a quaint thing which is an iconic symbol of the middle class. Watch "Edward Scissorhands". When I saw that movie I flashedback to my childhood suburban experience. I love the suburbs. You're close to parks, tons of fast food and chain restaurants and plenty of mom and pop shopping choices as well. You've got lots of hospitals nearby, lots of libraries, strip malls, lots of different kinds of mechanics, plumbers, and services that are farther away from rural or urban places. In other words you can get whatever you want or need much easier. You're 20 minutes from being out in the country or 20 minutes from being in the city depending on which direction you go. I've spent weeks in the country and weekends in the city. I love them both but I always love getting back home to the suburbs which to me, is the best of both worlds.
Can you change your fence since you own your house... maybe? It depends. In a lot of neighborhoods, we have this nightmare called (Home Owner Associations). They are a little like your Town Councils just 50 times worse! You need HOA approval for just about everything.
Yes, you can change it. Thorough it may depend if you live in an hoa but I can’t imagine they’d object to putting in something nicer looking. I dislike chain link fences. They’re the cheapest which is why lower income Areas have them. Nice places will not have them but have picket, iron, privacy fences, & wealthy areas might have brick.
I've seen stupid shits on my mail route put up their own fake speed limit signs. They're always ridiculous, like 20 mph, so I freely ignore them. It's always the same types of people, like the ones with the chained-up dog, and the NO TRESPASSING sign on a house that should be condemned.
I don’t know his personal reason, but many of us are disabled and choose to not drive to insure the safety of others. Even if it has nothing to do with that I think we can all agree the last thing we all want is someone who doesn’t want to drive on the road. Why is it such a big deal if you can drive? To each their own, I guess.
Wow this is a very glossy view. Because my Suburb is where someone got stabbed the other month.. Constant Ghetto Birds..aka Police helicopters. Sirens. Oh and a dead body in a trunk of a car that was left in front of the local park. And another one in a abandoned car at the local shopping center. Someone was beaten to death and left out in the intersection. Etc. I can really go on.
Does Lawrence only drive a bike? Does he possess a drivers license? I’d love to watch a reaction video to him practicing for and taking the written test
I DESPISE stray cats - it's not fair to my dog, who hates cats. They should be inside ONLY, just like the laws say our dogs have to be! Dogs have to have proof of all immunizations and local licenses and have to be in an enclosed area (i.e. fenced in yard), but there are no laws for cats. It's awful and not fair to our dogs
I’m trying to understand why they call a yard a garden, here a garden is a plot of land where food is grown. Then again why do we call it a yard? Then we go further by saying front yard, side yard and back yard. 🤷🏼♀️
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in the US gardens are where you plant vegs or flowers not grass.. They are called the front yard and the back yard.. Then you have a different place where you can call your garden or multiple ones.
In the US a garden is where flowers or vegetables are grown. We have yard’s around the house.
Yes, a homeowner can change the type of fence.
If there’s no homeowners’ association, you can put up any kind of fence you like, as long as it’s within the max height permitted by the town/city. If you have an HOA, you have to follow their rules. My HOA requires white for some style houses and natural wood for ours.
"Suburbs" in north America or "sub urban areas" are basically the regions just outside of large cities that are somewhat developed compared to "rural" areas which would be mostly farmland. They became popular in the 1980s as urban areas became quite expensive to live in and land just outside of town was still relatively cheap.
They first became popular after WW II.
@@sallyintucson True, returning soldiers with money to burn got the trend going, but the "escape to the burbs" really took off in the 1980s, for awhile it became sort of a meme before memes were invented. They made movies about the subject and tv series and whatnot and "the burbs" became part of the general fabric of American (and Canadian) lifestyle
@@sallyintucson Yeah the mass movement out of urbanized cities to more residential areas with cheaper land for houses after WWII with the introduction of the G.I. Bill of 1944. This is known as the "Urban Sprawl."
They have suburbs in Germany
Suburbs are neighborhoods outside of big cities so people can have a non city living but live close to the city for work
You might want to watch the 1989 Tom Hanks movie The Burbs funny as all get out with just the right amount of truth to show what suburban livings like.
@9:45 In a different home I owned years ago , I used to mow my lawn regularly and I always thought it was well kept and looked good. But apparently this wasn’t good enough for one of my neighbors who was a little mentally off and had all kinds of OCD issues. I came home from work early one day to catch him mowing my lawn. I literally just waved and walked into my house as if nothing unusual was happening. I always referred to him as “ The Lawnmower Man” after that. 😂
Oh sheesh that's horrible. My first house was in California and my neighbor across the street (since we had a massive water shortage, did not water their lawn so it was just dead grass and dirt) but they would go out there every other day with a leaf blower for whatever reason. It was absolutely mental to me; to the point that my wife was convinced it was my neighbor's excuse to get away from the family.
No one likes an HOA..
If your every waking moment trying to make your house to be aesthetically pleasing... get a damn hobby that doesn't involve money blow on non-sense
There are 3 sets of suburbs: urban suburbs, middle suburbs & exurbs. The further you get from the bigger cities the more land & bigger homes you’ll generally find. The urban suburbs are generally small homes just on the outskirts of the city limits & are still within walking distance to the inner city or a very short drive. The middle suburbs are what are usually seen in many movies like Home Alone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & Christmas Vacation etc. The exurbs are basically large homes or mansions (estates) where neighbors are hundreds of feet from each other & found just before you see rural area farmland. The further you are from the big cities, the more privacy & less crime. I grew up in the middle suburbs & very little crime, great schools & very clean area. It maybe more boring, but it’s great for raising a family & very safe & a good amount of privacy.
Suburbs are nice if you like living close enough to urban areas while not having most of the issues of the cities.
Homeowner's Associations are annoying though
@@TheSkyGuy77 Only if u live in them, then yes. Thank goodness I don't, just a regular neighborhood in a very small island. I walk everywhere except to work on another island. Then I drive.
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I live in the literal middle of nowhere.
No town or suburb for 30 minutes in any direction.
@@TheSkyGuy77 I live in Key West, so if want off the islands it's 110 miles of bridges and roads in between. 1 way in, 1 way off. No choice. College in Colo, 15 miles on a dirt road for food or 20miles to college. Do u miss more people?
Fencing depends on the homeowners association as they might have specific rules about it. Although standard wood fencing is used in Florida a lot.
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You should have said if people live in a homeowners association, because otherwise it sounds like everybody lives in a homeowners association and that's clearly not the case, you're going to confuse people from around the world so your comment is rated at a #2!
@@RFredrickPhotography Yeah homeowners associations are a royal pain in the ass to deal with. I managed a Landscaping company and one of the jobs we went to do was a simple tree planting in the yard. Which the home owners had to get permission from the HOA to plant it where they wanted.
Well come the day of the planting we get there and start digging only to find a massive boulder where they wanted it. So the tree had to be moved a few inches to the side to be able to be planted. Well in comes the HOA and we had to wait 3 hours for them to show up, look at the area and then finally give the owner permission to move the hole SIX INCHES to the right of where it was going to originally be.
Yeah that was the first and LAST HOA property we ever worked on. Just did not want to deal with the hassle of it again. That became one of the first questions for people inquiring about a landscapr job or planting...."Are you on a HOA property?....Yes?....Sorry we cannot help you."
The majority of people do not live in a home owners association.
You will see signs that say "slow children playing". They grow up to to be " slow men working".
😂😂😂😂
John Hughs (died Aug 2009)… look him up and pick a movie 🎥 🍿he wrote or had anything to do with, anything from the 80s with anyone from the ‘Brat Pack’. Movies: you can’t go wrong, Home Alone, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Farris Buller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck & the list goes on. Then you’ll see the suburbs & the neighborhoods he’s referring too. Plus the movies are of us “Boomer/GenX Cusp” which is actually called the “Generation Jones” and some of us were “latchkey kids”. These are our times & movies, I like to think. Hey, they’re fun to watch 😊
John Hughes movies are made in the suburbs of Chicago so Lawrence is reflecting on his neighborhood. A yard, garden, perhaps a basketball hoop in the driveway. Some people have swimming pools too. It’s lots of upkeep but satisfying.
Some neighborhoods have covenants that only allow chain link fence, some allow bushes that are thick like a fence and some allow six or eight foot high wooden fences. In Chicago a snow blower is handy.
Yes, you can put up a white picket fence in the front, but if you live in a neighborhood with rowdy, bored teens who have access to cans of spraypaint, you're kind of asking for it. In my case, I had an all-black chain link fence installed.
Btw some corrections. Most Subs have wooden fences. To randomly put a number on it I’d say 60% wood, 30% chain, 10% stone.
Another thing his neighborhood looks less “American suburban” because of different eras/regions of a city or location. Not to mention the owner of the neighborhood. You can’t out right change things on/outside of your house bc most neighborhoods (especially newer ones) you have HOA and a lot of them are strict and annoying.
In many areas, especially in non HOA communities, the city or county will cut your grass if it's too overgrown and then slap you with a bill or fine.
This really sounds like the land of the free :o)
Yard Sales and Garage Sales (and estate sales)
The suburbs really started after world war 2 when returning soldiers started families. Cities requiring space to house them decided to build single family homes on land just outside the city limits because it was cheaper. Houses were built quickly in less than a year to accommodate these new families. Also businesses wanting some profit created a shopping center nearby. The whole thing worked as states liked the idea of suburbs. Also new county lines were drawn to incorporate these new suburbs which blossomed into towns. The idea of buying a house is quite ingrained in the American mind as a way to show independence. Theme parks came later to Orlando during the baby boom years but it’s the reason why we grew so much so fast.
In the Southwest, it is not uncommon to find cactus used as a fence
I bet that works, About 2 years ago I stuck my finger with a cactus thorn in Tucson and ended up in the hospital for a week with an infection.
You can put up any type of fence you want and now the black iron fences are becoming more popular. or the 8' wooden fences.
I don’t know my neighbours’ names, but I know their dogs’ names.
Same! 😂
We have a whole bunch of those signs around here, the ones that say "drive like your kids live here." I annoy my husband by always saying, "my kids are indoor cats, so I guess I can drive like a maniac?" He thought it was mildly funny the first time. By the 512th time, though... lol
One of the differences I noticed is that there’s a Walmart in about every suburban towns. While in England there’s a pub in every block. We lived in a small village near an RAF for 6 years & I remember there was no grocery store in the village. So we shop inside the RAF facility for groceries. My husband was in the USAF stationed in RAF Lakenheath. There’s one thing we visited a lot of Abbey, Castles, & open markets. We loved that.
Babushka dolls are the Russian (and from other countries in that general area) where you have a number of dolls of different sizes that nest one inside the next.
So he’s saying that the suburbs are like that in that there are rectangles inside of rectangles inside of more rectangles.
The cost of living, including housing, varies tremendously depending on how close the suburbs are to a major city. Though it has mitigated a bit, with the post-pandemic housing boom middle class non-mansion homes in the metropolitan areas within 30-60 minutes of a large city like New York, Philadelphia, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, etc. cost upwards of $1 million. But in less populated areas, even in the metropolitan areas near smaller cities and state capitals, the cost of the same houses is in the $300,000 to $500,000 range. I live 15 minutes from our state capital and the average home price is less than $230,000. And we live within 2.5 hours of 3 major cities.
We live on a mountaintop and don’t currently have a dog… We have a feral kitty that “adopted” my adult son and his family… She is affectionate and she keeps the rodent population controlled…❤️🐈
We live in the boonies…👍🏻😊
This was great! Loved it! Lawrence is just a few miles from me, as far as I can tell, and this is mostly accurate.
I lived in the city as a child, then moved to the suburbs in my 20's and now I live in a rural area and love it! I'm only 10 minutes from our small town but my home is on 1 acre of land surrounded by farms where they grow corn one year then soybeans the next. So peaceful and my home was only 6 years old when I bought it and it was a very reasonable price for a single mom with 2 boys and 2 dogs. I also went with chain link fencing do to the low cost and the durability. Wooden fencing rots to quickly and plastic fencing gets mold and breaks to easily.
6:54
Quite right, James
Chain link fences are much more low-maintenance and sturdier than a picket fence
With a picket fence, you're having to do loads of maintenance, such as replacing replacing parts that are broken or othherwise damaged, keeping it cleaned or even repainting or refinishing the fence
My mom had a friend who retired to eastern Florida. Her "lawn" was literally covered for the grass to die. Light colored rocks covered the entire thing so she and her husband never had to worry about cutting the grass.
In the dry southwest, a gravel-covered yard is the norm. I one time started laughing in Wal-Mart when I saw they were selling lawn mowers,. In Tucson, I've never seen an actual live grass lawn except on a golf course where they use recycled water.
6:42 "Or a Hell in a Cell match" LOL
garden=a place where you plant flowers or vegetables
yard=a grassy area around a house
Is there a reason that Lawrence doesn’t drive? That’s really odd, a grown man in the suburbs who doesn’t drive
He just recently got his DL. As long as they only have 1 car, I doubt he will start to drive, he seems a little off put by driving. It might be he has lived in some cities where the drivers are considered nuts. Give him 10 or so years or a need to getcto the emergency vet and he is the only one home with the car
The big thing about where I used to live, in the Bay Area of California, is that the new houses were these massive 5+ bedroom houses on a plot of land that it could barely fit so it had the tiniest back and side yards. These were all over new development and I never understood why.
We just moved from Tracy, CA to a WA property with 2.7 acres. We can barely see the neighbors because of the forest our homes are in.
Yea that’s Cali… head a state over to Nevda or Colorado you get more space. Then if you go to Texas you get that same 5+ bed with hella yard space for like 1/2 to 2/3s of the price. It’s so weird. But understandable at the same time.
If you own the land and you were not dumb getting a HoA then you can change your fence. You can do anything except build onto your home. You have to have a permit to expand your home.
You can't always change things on your own property. Some areas have covenants that restrict what you can and cannot do. Some places require you to get approval for any changes. Most older areas do not have covenants, but pretty much all areas in incorporated towns have upkeep requirements like cutting the yard and shoveling snow off walks. Most neighborhoods have similar houses because they are usually built by the same company and only 7 or 8 models are usually available. In more spread out areas or areas where plots are developed individually there can be wide variation in styles and sizes. Las Vegas is famous for mansions next to hovels.
Fences are usually regulated as they effect one's neighbors. Solid tall fences are usually kept to the rear of a house and may or may not require negotiating with neighbors if they are solid ( they restrict sunlight and air flow.) Fences to the front are usually kept low to allow fire, EMTS and police to locate your address in emergencies. My experience: the smaller the yard, the more likely the flowers and landscaping. Gardening requires time and money. A very big house and grounds will have a gardening service.
A suburb is within a major city transport time I say half an hour to an hour. I live in a suburb of Orlando which is 15 minutes away which is easy access to downtown Orlando with 20 minutes to Disney and universal. Honestly it’s quiet which is nice. And the major businesses are a 5 minute bike ride away. It’s a good place to be especially as a young family. You just observe how the neighborhood changes and usually it does. The odd thing is I’m sandwiched between two major thoroughfares which is good for car traffic but terrible sometimes as loud trucks can screech by.
That's not the suburbs, that's just the edge of the city
People speed through residential areas and so often, a homeowner will place a gentle reminder about slowing down on their front parkway, which is the patch of grass nearest the road.
Yes, you could change up your fence if you wanted to. Subject to the building department that covers that type of thing, Home owners association, county building dept or city building dept.
My brother put up a fence and didn’t have to deal with any organization🤷♂️
My entire neighborhood is full of flower gardens and any fences that we have are iron or wood (no chain link). I’m in Florida so yard work is year round. 😅
I rarely see someone with an actual picket fence. The usual fence styles in Florida suburbs are the tall wooden fences, white vinyl, and black aluminum. Some older suburbs will have chain link fences. But nowadays a lot of people in suburbs don't have fences, the developers don't put em up and the buyers don't bother either esp golfing communities.
I was going to comment the same, growing up in South Florida we had a tall wooden fence in the backyard but no fence in the front yard. Also, you can replace your fence as a homeowner but it’s very expensive and as a Floridian, where hurricanes take your fence down fairly frequently, you get screwed. And to top it all off, hurricane insurance no longer covers fences when they get blown away so it’s up to you to pay and have it replaced after each storm.
my house had no front fence, and i had a custom picket fence put up. 250 foot long.
My neighborhood, which is in the burbs, has a Home Owner’s Association (HOA) that mandates how the exterior of our homes are maintained. They have to be a certain color, kept mowed and landscaped, have a limit of cars parked in the driveway and they even have rules around fences. We can only fence our backyards and chain link fencing is not permitted. The joys of living in an HOA neighborhood in the burbs!
It was great I like Lawrence everything he talked about though was just pertaining to the northern Midwest area particularly the Chicagoland area especially the mansion guess small house type of thing that's a real the Midwest Chicagoland type of thing. You go to different regions of America an experienced Suburban America and you have a totally different experience from other parties
My next door neighbors bought their house for over $500,000 but they have never mowed the lawn or water it for that matter. Unfortunately, you can't pick your neighbors. Most everyone else on our block keeps their yards nicely. There is always at least one.
Wait until the junk cars arrive to be placed strategically out front (never on the driveway).
As far as White picket fences some cities have Laws or ordinances that regulate whether you can have a fence and if you can what kind you can have. The city I live in you can't have any fence in your front lawn, but you can have any kind of fence you want for your back yard.
For me a sign of wealth in the way of fences is the ornate wrought iron fences in places in the South found in places like Charleston South Carolina.
As for green grass. It depends on where you live. Where I grew up if you don’t water it your grass it dies and can’t come back. Where I am now few people water in the summer so the grass dies but comes back in the fall.
Can't wait to see this.
Greetings from Long Island. The OG suburb. A preemptive congratulations to you both. Great channel.
Hello fellow Long Islander. 😊
Fences and how maintained yards are depends on city regulations and whether or not you live in an HOA (home owners association). We do NOT live in an HOA, but our city does have some basic rules about fence height, mostly to make sure it doesn’t block views around corners and such. As long as we don’t want something crazy tall, we can do whatever kind of fence we want-most are wood or vinyl in our area. We live in the desert, so our state no longer allows regulations/rules requiring green grass b/c there just isn’t enough water. There were so many stories about people literally painting their grass green because their HOA was giving out fines for yellow grass 🤦🏻♀️
We will do yard signs for anything. Sports, politics, just had/adopted a baby, graduation, birthday, religious messages, seasonal signs, Hanks Lawn cuts my grass, literally anything! LOL
Great video, Bees! There's been a relatively new thing to take the place of the white picket fences. Now, a lot of these fences are made of PVC. It's very neat, very sturdy and a pass with the hose, while watering the grass, keeps it very bright white.
unfortunately it depends on the city, county, or even HOA, etc.. u would have to get permits, or essentially permission to build anything on land you "own", some HOAs have rules against things. like how tall a fence could be, or the color, how much of your property or what veiw it blocks, etc material, brick wood plastic chainlink (old pallets) some may not be allowed
I say hello to everyone Who I make eye contact with
Lawrence is not in the typical suburbs (white picket fences etc). He's on the city outskirts of Chicago.
I have lived my entire life in the suburbs. My college was in the suburbs, my job was in the suburbs and now in retirement, I live in the suburbs. The city is just a place to visit but wouldn't want to live there.
I hate the manicured lawns that are so common here. They are boring and environmentally bad as well. I love when I see someone's yard full of flowers and other plants. In those yards you tend to see bigger varieties of insects and animals.
You’re telling me! I live in California and drought has been an “issue” since Day One (1850).
Also, I wasn’t born in this country and I always thought that when you have a lawn you need servants to tend to it. I hate “peasant” work, I didn’t go to college for that.
@@carlosmiro4932 haha yeah they use up way too much water and mowing the lawn every week sucks!
Thanks for another entertaining video! Yes, you can change your fence unless you are in HOA (homeowner association) then you have get approval. ✌️❤️
Also, a lot of factors depend on the area, and some subdivisions have HOAs were they require you to keep the grass a certain way. I'm poor, so my neighborhoods have never been that way lol, but I had friends in nicer subdivisions that really did have all the stuff you see in movies.
He could change his fence as long as he doesn't live in a HOA-- a Homeowners Association. When you live in a neighborhood with a HOA you agree to obey the rules of the neighborhood. These rules normally regulate what you can and cannot do with your home. I will bet that he doesn't live in a HOA. I live in a HOA in Florida and everyone who wants to live in the neighborhood must pay dues sign an agreement before buying the home.
YARD YARD YARD YARD YARD YARD YARD YARD
I dislike the signs that say, “Slow children playing” I don’t know if they mean drive slow or if there are children with challenges playing. Need to change the wording on those😂😂
You should react the same way. Drive more cautiously.
@@Hello-jp2jr I have 10 grandchildren…I always drive cautiously😊
You have to get a permit from the City to remove the old fence and also put the new one in, and the City charges money for the permits, and they have all kinds of questionable rules one has to do to to be in compliance with the City
White, green, brown,rainbow colored pickets if you want. In areas around Detroit anyway.
Locked gates and dogs keep most of it out
@Da Yeti come in my yard pray the dog gets you
You can change the fence unless you live in a home owner association (hoa) then you'll need permission to do it 😅😅
As an American I don't get putting milk in tea🤮🤮.
I also don't understand calling a cookie a biscuit and fried potato slices are chips.
Or a shopping cart is a trolley.
white picket fences are more homey & quaint, not a rich people situation.
I just had to remove a picket fence from my MIL's garden because it was rotted in some areas and she decided she didn't like the way it looked anymore but it lasted maybe 10 years? So, yeah....chain link would be lower maintenance but most people would not use them in an area they were concerned about something being aestetically pleasing
He’s obviously not been in more recently constructed suburbs subdivisions. The rectangles are no more.
Don't answer to salesman 😊
Most newer developments over here all have no soliciting signs on every house
In some areas there are homeowner associations and they tend to want everything to look the same so sometimes they won't allow you to change your fencing homeowner associations are basically Karen's.
You can definitely have whatever kind of fence you want. But if you live in an area settled by Scandinavians, it's considered insulting to your neighbors.
My next door neighbor has a sign that says Caution Grandparents at Play. 😅😅
Now there are also exurbs, suburbs of the suburbs.
The white-picket fence in the suburbs is one of the features of the mythical American Dream. That said, I just watched a show titled “Love & Death based on real events that took place in Wylie, TX, population at the time under 4,000 in June 1980 when a suburban housewife killed another suburban housewife by hitting her 41 times with an axe. I’d suggest that Lawence be careful in his suburb because appeareances are deceiving.
Laurence's monologue about American rectangles had a tone that he had his schnoz full of four sided arguments.
Hi Beesleys!
Well, he does have a shaver.
The suburbs in the US:
100 to 600 single family homes in 5 not unique styles. Each one 6" from your neighbor's house and 10" of front yard and 20" of backyard (garden or allotment),
Personal vehicles are absolutely necessary because the chance of having a functional public transit system is just a little bit lower than 0%.
Somewhere between 5 and 20 strip malls for your shopping pleasures. Lots and lots of chain restaurants, gas station/convenience stores, 1 or 2 regional chain grocery stores.
Anywhere from a 30 minute to 2 hour drive each way, Monday thru Friday to go to work.
AND!!!!!!
You Don't Own The home You Pay Each Month For. It's owned by the local HOA (Home Owners Association), the bank, the local tax assessor, the utility companies (electric and/or natural gas), and when they get their shares you get what's left.
White picket fences aren't really a rich person thing at all. They're way too inexpensive for the rich. Rich people live in gated communities. If they have fences they are large iron ones. White picket fences are more of a quaint thing which is an iconic symbol of the middle class. Watch "Edward Scissorhands". When I saw that movie I flashedback to my childhood suburban experience. I love the suburbs. You're close to parks, tons of fast food and chain restaurants and plenty of mom and pop shopping choices as well. You've got lots of hospitals nearby, lots of libraries, strip malls, lots of different kinds of mechanics, plumbers, and services that are farther away from rural or urban places. In other words you can get whatever you want or need much easier. You're 20 minutes from being out in the country or 20 minutes from being in the city depending on which direction you go. I've spent weeks in the country and weekends in the city. I love them both but I always love getting back home to the suburbs which to me, is the best of both worlds.
Can you change your fence since you own your house... maybe? It depends. In a lot of neighborhoods, we have this nightmare called (Home Owner Associations). They are a little like your Town Councils just 50 times worse! You need HOA approval for just about everything.
A lot of the more modern homes are all roof. Might look like it has an upstairs but it doesn't. Kind of strange but that's😂
Yes, you can change it. Thorough it may depend if you live in an hoa but I can’t imagine they’d object to putting in something nicer looking.
I dislike chain link fences. They’re the cheapest which is why lower income Areas have them. Nice places will not have them but have picket, iron, privacy fences, & wealthy areas might have brick.
Soliciting is prohibited in my neighborhood
jAMES Beezley has anyone ever menntioned how much you fancy /Jame's Clarck's Amazing Spaces?
If you haven't already you should reacts to the song may we all
Not called gardens it's just yards/lawns.....gardens are growing vegetables
I've seen stupid shits on my mail route put up their own fake speed limit signs. They're always ridiculous, like 20 mph, so I freely ignore them. It's always the same types of people, like the ones with the chained-up dog, and the NO TRESPASSING sign on a house that should be condemned.
Why will he not just get his driver’s license?
I don’t know his personal reason, but many of us are disabled and choose to not drive to insure the safety of others. Even if it has nothing to do with that I think we can all agree the last thing we all want is someone who doesn’t want to drive on the road.
Why is it such a big deal if you can drive? To each their own, I guess.
You can change things but you must first get a permit.
Wow this is a very glossy view. Because my Suburb is where someone got stabbed the other month.. Constant Ghetto Birds..aka Police helicopters. Sirens. Oh and a dead body in a trunk of a car that was left in front of the local park. And another one in a abandoned car at the local shopping center. Someone was beaten to death and left out in the intersection. Etc. I can really go on.
Lawrence, stripes are not rectangles.
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Does Lawrence only drive a bike? Does he possess a drivers license? I’d love to watch a reaction video to him practicing for and taking the written test
THE BRUBS
I DESPISE stray cats - it's not fair to my dog, who hates cats. They should be inside ONLY, just like the laws say our dogs have to be! Dogs have to have proof of all immunizations and local licenses and have to be in an enclosed area (i.e. fenced in yard), but there are no laws for cats. It's awful and not fair to our dogs
My house in 1000 sq feet but 1/2 acer
How ya feeling, Millie❤️🇺🇸
I’m trying to understand why they call a yard a garden, here a garden is a plot of land where food is grown. Then again why do we call it a yard? Then we go further by saying front yard, side yard and back yard. 🤷🏼♀️
You are not allowed chained l8nk fences in my neighborhood....must be wood.