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Old 07-22-2015, 01:32 PM
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Location: Surrey/London
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There's something about it that looks very non-American. Most of the area is cropland, with only woodland as the border between farmland. Much of the Midwest is mostly farmland, but the farm sizes are larger and more regular looking. Pennsylvania is more intensively farmed than New York State or New England and farms are smaller scale than further west.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0708.../data=!3m1!1e3

This area? Theunbrainwashed lives near here. Not quite the same neat borders:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0645...7i13312!8i6656

Other noticeable difference is the houses are all concentrated in compact villages rather than partially scattered in the countryside. Btw, the local language of most that area was German 100 years ago.
Those farms are still too regular looking, and the plots seem very long and narrow. The farmland around Louisville and Lexington looks very English, though.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.06.../data=!3m1!1e3
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Many parts of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Northern Missouri, etc look like that also.
The farms are bigger there, and flat land stretches for miles; so it looks more open there.
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Those farms are still too regular looking, and the plots seem very long and narrow. The farmland around Louisville and Lexington looks very English, though.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@38.06.../data=!3m1!1e3
Interesting find, wasn't familiar with Kentucky
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Paris
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Maybe Kentucky would be a good match for a lot of the UK? The KY countryside looks more familiar to me as a European than most of the US.

Edit: B87 beat me to it.



Btw here's how our grass looks around here. Med climate at its finest. This place would be so much better if the rainfall pattern was reversed.





Clothes completely drenched after a run in 75°F dew points.

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fenceless American homes
Bautiful pics. Have you noticed a difference regarding the tendency to fence houses off the street in Spain, Czech Republic, Germany and the UK?



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See that big mountain at the horizon? It's Mt. Monadnock, New Hampshire. 34 miles to the northeast. I could make out the bald spot on the top; don't think I've ever been able to before, very good visibility that day. Close-up and then more from that point:
Didn't get to experience such a good visibility here since May.



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Not the greatest photos but i post them anyway.
I made a small bike tour.
It was very hot, about 33-34°C when i started.
Wow, not the best weather to ride a bike. Did you bike there all the way from Munich?
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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The farms are bigger there, and flat land stretches for miles; so it looks more open there.
True, I mean in the pure sense of having crop lands lined with wooded areas. Seems like England is more dense than the US even in rural areas.
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Arundel, FL
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The FL Panhandle has some fields with irregular shapes, though with more forest.

https://goo.gl/maps/u4RXK
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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A bright blue sky currently illustrating the arctic airmass.




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Old 07-22-2015, 01:52 PM
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I don't know if they're natural, it's probably a mix like it is with the Czech forests.
This link claims that 99% of Czech forests are planted which is hard to believe (there must be some forestland where no one bothered to manage in the last decades. Germany is 48% planted, the rest natural.
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Munich, Germany
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Wow, not the best weather to ride a bike. Did you bike there all the way from Munich?
No, I'm living outside of the city limits, in a suburb west of Munich (city proper).
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Old 07-22-2015, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Munich, Germany
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This link claims that 99% of Czech forests are planted which is hard to believe (there must be some forestland where no one bothered to manage in the last decades. Germany is 48% planted, the rest natural.
I don't understand how there is such a big difference between Germany and the Czech Republic.
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