Which feels more British: New England or Virginia and the Carolinas?

[Anonymous]

South Carolina feels more South African than British.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on the city. Charleston feels very English to me (I know you said British, but...)

I agree but only Charleston, not the rest of the Carolinas at all. North Carolina barely has any Episcopalians even.

[Anonymous]

Baltimore is very safe compared to red areas like in West Virginia or Kentucky.

Your racism is showing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore is very safe compared to red areas like in West Virginia or Kentucky.

Your racism is showing.

DP but I would say that, on the contrary, it is -your- bias that is on display.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore is very safe compared to red areas like in West Virginia or Kentucky.

Your racism is showing.

What the F is this? I live in Baltimore and I can say nonsense. Baltimore has safe areas and Baltimore has high crime and very dangerous areas. But the overall murder and crime rate is vastly higher than anywhere in WV or KY.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore is very safe compared to red areas like in West Virginia or Kentucky.

Hahahahahahahwhahahahahahahaha!!!!

[Anonymous]

New England.

Go drive around Little Compton, RI and the adjacent southern strip of MA. It feels like you're in the English countryside. Same thing in some of the suburbs of Boston - the town of Lincoln, MA looks like England complete with village greens and stone walls between properties.

It's really lovely.

[Anonymous]

Victoria, British Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baltimore is very safe compared to red areas like in West Virginia or Kentucky.

Your racism is showing.

What the F is this? I live in Baltimore and I can say nonsense. Baltimore has safe areas and Baltimore has high crime and very dangerous areas. But the overall murder and crime rate is vastly higher than anywhere in WV or KY.

It’s the old “per-capita” ruse.


If you have a rural county with a thousand people in it, and one of them murders someone, then that rural county is “much more dangerous than Baltimore or Detroit”

So a place like Baltimore, with 500,000 people and 300 murders per year, is “safer” than some rural county in WV with a thousand people and one murder. In Baltimore your per capita odds of being murdered are 1:1,666. In that rural WV county, the odds are 1:1,000 - 60% higher.

Except it’s complete nonsense, because literally anyone living in Baltimore will say they’d feel safer in some rural county with a tiny population. They know the stats are complete BS.

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Anonymous wrote:New England.

Go drive around Little Compton, RI and the adjacent southern strip of MA. It feels like you're in the English countryside. Same thing in some of the suburbs of Boston - the town of Lincoln, MA looks like England complete with village greens and stone walls between properties.

It's really lovely.

There are corners of New England and even Virginia that have substantial money in the countryside, giving it a groomed look and that is where you can find a comparison with Britain, which does have a lot of hidden wealth in the countryside due to its history.

[Anonymous]

Concord and Dover and Wenham in Massachusetts are all very elegant and green suburbs with horse farms and old colonial homes. Parts of the Berkshires are similar. If that’s the British vibe you are thinking of. And Boston feels a little like a mini - London with beautiful brownstones and brick sidewalks and cobblestone walkways in the back bay and beacon hill.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Born and raised in Edinburgh. Came over at 11. Virginia by far.

You realize that's because it's got the most Scottish settlers / names / language. I am hoping you knew this. Really.

Language? I'm hoping you know both locales speak the same one. Really.

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Anonymous wrote:Of US cities, Philadelphia looks like an English city. They were building rowhouses until around 1960 or so. However culturally Philadelphia doesn't feel British at all.

It actually looks more British than Boston, since rowhouses quickly give way to the uniquely New England triple decker style housing.

I agree with this. There are a lot of British-accented people in the Philadelphia area. Not sure what brings them here, they span the range of social classes from like, dockworker to doctor. Soccer games at bars are all British people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of US cities, Philadelphia looks like an English city. They were building rowhouses until around 1960 or so. However culturally Philadelphia doesn't feel British at all.

It actually looks more British than Boston, since rowhouses quickly give way to the uniquely New England triple decker style housing.

I agree with this. There are a lot of British-accented people in the Philadelphia area. Not sure what brings them here, they span the range of social classes from like, dockworker to doctor. Soccer games at bars are all British people.

Interesting. Can't say I ever heard a British accent in Philly.

[Anonymous]

Boston for a city, and parts of Connecticut for posh and/or seaside.

But it depends what class of Brit you are talking about.