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Why is America so 'patchy' in it's development?

For example, they've got the CGI and their Silicon Valley etc., but their mobile phones seem to be a bit behind what we have here - and why do they use pagers so much - is it because they get charged for incoming calls - which we don't here in the UK? When I went to San Diego not so long ago, could I find a decent kettle or some proper sausage or bacon - could I F...K? They only seem to eat frankfurter type sausages and their bacon looks like it's been chewed by the cat! And I know it's not like it all over America, but they have these wonderfully wide roads but shack-like architecture - you take LA for instance - every house seems to be like a squat, square shaped bungalow with a wire fence round it - miles and miles of them - all the same bland rubbish and the shops seem to follow the same bland shack-like plan why - is this an earthquake think or aren't they interested in building anything like skyscrapers and those ridiculously tall tenamant buildings they have in NY?

Public Comments

1. Pagers are so 1995. British food is probably the most terrible food in the world. And you were probably in what is known as a "ghetto" in LA.
2. Indeed. There is far more to America than LA and NY. That would be the equivalent of me classifying all of Britannia as one giant gum-ridden sidewalk where the rats are as big as house cats. puh-leeeease.
3. Are you asking a question or just complaining?
4. I guess the Boston tea party still bother you. Grow up will you
5. I'm from San Diego and could have told you where to get a good kettle or bacon. You can't just wander randomly around a round a city of a milliion people and find the best. As far as sausage goes (and I say this having a British mother) I doubt many Brits would know a good one when they see it. You obviously didn't try "Whole Foods" or "The Sausage King", etc. As far as a kettle, I think that's a hoax, why would you want to bring a kettle back to England? So many Brits use those electric ones anyway that are the wrong voltage, that we don't use here much. I don't know where you saw so many pagers, I haven't seen one in use for 2 or 3 years, I guess you can still get them. Mobile phones are a bit (measured in months) behind England, but England is behind, for example, Finland and Japan. Its partly related to too many providers and part the large area to fit with new antennas, etc. England has slums as well, its just the homes are attached on the side, perhaps that looks more normal to you. American suburbs as the one you describe were built after cars were common, so things are more spaced apart. Americans value (or expect) private yards more than the English do, even in poor neighborhoods. One other difference is the cheapest of British houses are owned by the town councils, unlike in California, so you have an extra layer of bureaucracy telling you how and when to fix the place up, or sending over the inforcers to do it for you. You clearly didn't get to San Marino, Malibu, Wilshire District, Topanga Canyon, or other places with a totally different stye of city layout. America has more range than England does. The best is better and the worse is worse, that just the way it is.
6. IT'S THE SAME EVERY WHERE