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We have privacy fences in the US, usually about 6' high. HOAs (Home Owners' Associations) are a major pain with sometimes insane "rules" about a property's up-keep, but, thankfully, they do not appear in all communities...usually the more affluent ones.
ill 100% have to get myself a privacy fence. Yeah i've heard HOA's can be really annoying
Any house I have lived in has had 6 ft solid fences as well as trees and high bushes. No gates! Pretty much everyone in my neighborhood has dogs too so having privacy fences is pretty much needed so the dogs are not always making eye contact and barking at each other. I got myself some big old dogs, like an 80 lb pit bull. He likes his privacy and I like my neighbors NOT seeing me in my bikini swimming...I am sure they don't mind not seeing that either..
@@L3WGReacts Like the bathrooms, Americans are just not nosey, we follow the bubble of privacy. Part of that is that we don't know who's packing heat, unless you are in Texas where you can just assume everyone is packing.
I've never heard of any of the terms used in this video describing that front bit of grass. In my area of Ohio, I've only ever heard it called a "tree lawn" since as Laurence himself described, they often will have a tree on them
@@L3WGReactsannoying is a major understatement. You can loose your home just for painting it the wrong color, or planting the wrong kind of flowers or trees in the yard. They are set up where you cannot disagree with them.
The fence you're talking about is called a privacy fence. A lot of places have them. The type you see Laurence having is called chain link and is more to keep pets in your yard then it is to keep people from looking.
right make sense
Pets and small kids
They are also much much cheaper than a privacy fence. Or at least they were the last time I was actively looking. Now I got lucky and bought a house with a 6 foot brick walls.
@AmethystRock What Laurence has is a Chain-link fence. They are 4ft high and are the cheapest fencing available. Thus, you will often find this type of fencing in lower middle class housing. Why? Because our houses weren't built with fencing. So owners had to pay for them after they bought the house, and it gets expensive quickly.
Also, there are zoning laws. In many areas, you can't have a fence facing the street, be higher than 4 ft. So people who have corner properties will get chain-link because they can't by law get privacy fencing.
You can't by law have a high fence to protect your own property?! That's crazy to me! Do you not get people that pass by and scan what you have in your house/garden and then come back later to steal things? Like if you leave your kids bikes in the back garden or have expensive garden furniture etc
I have never lived in a house with a sidewalk (pavement) in front, so I've never had a strip of grass to consider what it's called, and I've never heard anybody call it anything. When Lawrence said some people call it a median, I consider that to be a grassy area in the middle of a major road dividing the different directions of traffic, like on a highway.
For anyone who doesn't know, that strip is a right of way for city utilities. It is city property but you must keep it mowed. The sidewalk is usually also city property so they must repair cracks. However, sometimes the homeowner will put one in but on their property.
In western Massachusetts I called it the verge but the grass areas between highways were always the median or median strip.
I call it the strip of grass that dogs poop on so when you get out of the car you step in it. Dog poo grass?
You also have to have your part of the side walk shoveled of snow within 24 hours of it ending.
What he's describing as a "Verge", is actually the strip of grass (or lawn) that is between the pavement (sidewalk) and the curb. Technically it's a part of your property that the city or county can access anytime to maintain underground utilities like water, electrical, telephone or cable TV lines. It is still the responsibility of the home owner to maintain its appearance, mowing, watering, etc.
I lived in the UK for 10 years and I can absolutely validate everything you say! I’m back home in Georgia, USA and I have a renewed appreciation for everything we have here!
The chain link fence is usually to keep your dogs in their own yards.
Every house I’ve ever lived in in Texas, every neighborhood, has had a 7-9 ft tall wood fence in the backyard. It really depends on your neighborhood.
I 100% agree. I live in TX and most of us have wooden fences. Every house I've lived in, in my life, huge wooden fence. The only times I've seen the chain link fences are in much older neighborhoods or low income neighborhoods which makes sense because they are cheaper to build vs the wood ones, but I think even then, a lot of people will put up hedges or something to try to gain some privacy between the neighbors.
Yeah the general pattern is no fence in front and a board fence in back. Though there are certainly exceptions, sometimes no fence in back either.
Me three. I live Houston, same thing.
rightt, i'm happy to go to texas anyway
Texas here too. We have our privacy fence in the back yard even though I live out in the country side.
I live in California and we have a brick wall that separates the properties. It just depends on your taste. There’s that metal fence wooden fence brick walls hedges depends on where you live.
If you have a dog, or kids, you need a fence of some sort in the back. They don’t always have fences in the front. Chain link fence I think is typically the cheapest and you can still see through it. But when you have nosy or rude (or messy) neighbors, you want to put up something taller that you can’t see through so you can have a little bit of peace.
Most people choose their fences based on needs. If the budget is tight, that affects the materials used, height, length, etc. If safety/security is the priority, a taller, privacy fences are built. And some people just put up fences to mark their property lines. Some neighborhoods (like those with HOA’s) have rules about what’s allowed.
Yeah in older homes chain link fences are more common, at least in my gulf coast area of Texas. Here they're also called hurricane fences because unlike wooden fences they don't blow down in the wind. Hence why there's probably so many more of them left then wooden ones.
The mountains you said were beautiful were the smokey mountains around Tennessee. They are even more beautiful in person. Covered in morning mist...
The geography of the U.S. is so beautiful and amazingly varied. I haven't traveled much but I have been through the Smokey Mountains and they were the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. When we retire we hope to see more of this country.
Every house Ive lived in, except the current one, has had a 6 to 8ft board fence in the backyard. Our gardens are in the backyard, the lawn and bushes are in the front. But most houses are on at least a half acre. Our current house is on 2 lots, with 6 acres of empty forest behind us. Nothing can be built in the forest because you cant build within 150ft of a stream or creek.
There are privacy fences in the US but the metal chain link fences are usually meant to prevent trespassing and to keep in the dogs.
I live in a very rural part of Northern New York and very few people here have any fences at all. Most of us have larger parcels of land that our houses sit on though, so we aren’t right close to our neighbors. Usually at least an acre or more. Also, it really depends on where you live whether or not there is an HOA. There are none up here in my area. Not for miles and miles. Usually the suburbs near larger cities will have a neighborhood with an HOA. I’ve only heard people complain about them 🤷♀️ we do have A LOT of green here. I really live in farm country, so there are fields and fields of green and crops etc. we also have lots of trees. All different types. I love seeing the leaves change in the fall. It’s beautiful. Right now (mid October) they’re just past peak fall foliage. So tons of colors. Can’t wait for you to come over to the USA and experience all of this for yourself! 😊
I didn't even know the "verge" had a name! LOL! The city usually plants trees on the verge, but yeah, we're responsible for mowing it. Also, most yards around here do have the chainlink fence but you can put up a privacy fence if you want. I guess we're also responsible for the condition of the sidewalk in front of our houses? I've never had the city tell me I needed to do anything to it - but I have received notices telling me to mow my grass or they would do it and charge me $100 (which is pretty high for my size yard).
In the neighborhood where I grew up, there is what we called an easement which technically belongs to the city but is maintained by the homeowner. It's the strip of lawn between the sidewalk and the street.
The area of lawn that he's calling a "verge" is called a ROW (Right Of Way) here in Tacoma, Washington. The city will actually give you trees to plant there and dig the holes for them if you ask. It's part of the city's initiative to be more "green". The city also gives new homeowners coupons with deep discounts for three more trees for anywhere on your property. We took advantage of these benefits as soon as we bought our house. We ended up get two fruit trees for our yard with the coupons and make canned jam every year from our harvest.
I have never heard of most of those names we call it a strip of grass next to the curb I have one but they put black top on top so it the sidewalk ,strip of blacktop then the curb and the road
My backyard has barbed wire fencing. Keeps the cows in. Since our nearest neighbor is miles away, I doubt they're peeping at me through the acres of forest between us. Of course, I don't live in a subdivision, either. When I did, we didn't have a HOA. It was a requirement of mine when we were looking. I didn't want to pay people to tell me what I could paint my own front door on a house I was paying for.
The first sentence took me by complete surprise until I read the next! 😂
@@starparodier91 😂 keeps the prisoners in too ...sometimes
Many of us in America are neighborly. I chit chat with my neighbors yet we still show respect for each other's privacy as well. A little privacy goes a long way.😀🇺🇲
We’ve always referred to the grass out front as curb grass on the other side of the front lawn. We love our privacy and have fences , locks, privacy plants to block etc..
In Arizona, most of our backyards have a 6 ft block or brick fence. That surrounds all the way around to the sides with an R.V. gate.
We call it a backyard and front yard in the U.S.. Fences are different all over. In the neighborhood I live in (track houses built in 1958) we have block walls separating our backyards - some have wooden fences, but all have fences that block out the neighbor being able to stand there and see what you're doing (unless they're upstairs in their house looking out a window into our backyard!). There are small fences, about 1-1/2 feet high, separating our front yards. Even with the 6 foot fences in the back yard we still talk with our neighbors over the fence. I'm a gardener, so I pass fruits and veggies over to them when I have spare to share.
The road is called pavement (asphalt) and the walking pathway made out of cement/concrete is called a sidewalk here. The strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road is called a parkway (Southern California).
Not all neighborhoods have HOA's (Homeowners Association). Those that do have a board of people that will check on things to make sure they're as stated they must be in the rules... if they're not, they can warn you to fix it or cite you and fine you. Homeowners must pay the HOA's dues each month and those fees can be quite a bit of money. My neighborhood does not have a HOA, thank goodness, but if I were to let my yard get really out of control or park a bunch of old un-drivable cars in the yard, the city could cite me and fine me because each city has rules, too.
There are many beautiful neighborhoods in America, and there are some neighborhoods that have requirements for your yards and such, but many don't. I am surrounded by miles of pine trees and views of the rocky mountains of Montana on 2 sides, and we still have green grass around the house. I'm at an elevation of almost 6,000 feet.
HOA is usually for rich neighborhoods, and you can use whatever fence you want
The verge is owned by the council but maintained by the adjacent property owner. It is called a tree lawn here, and the council is responsible for maintenance and replanting of the trees. "Arborist" is the name of the town employ who is responsible for the street trees. One way to tell if a community is failing is if it has allowed its street trees to disapppear.
We call the strip of grass between the road and sidewalk "Devil Strip"
We call that space btw the sidewalk and street the tree lawn.
The area in front and in the back of your house is the "front yard" and "back yard"...
A "garden" is space that you grow food and herb crops, etc.
Lawrence lives in a older part of the Chicago suburbs. If I remember correctly, his house was built in the 1930s. They are closer together and don’t have privacy fences in the back. Newer suburbs allow for 6 foot wooden fences for privacy in the backyard. Several different kind of front yard fences will be seen or no fences at all, but they have to be lower, I think, by city code. We don’t have any fence in our front yard. We have a 6 foot wooden privacy fence in the back, and we have a big backyard. We do not have the grass in between the sidewalk and the street. Our yard goes to the sidewalk and then there’s the curb and street. The old part of town has what he calls the verge. I have never heard of that term by the way. Not every area has an HOA. I would never live in one. They are very restrictive. We don’t have councils, we take care of our own properties. The city and utility right of way, which might be under the verge or under the first section of your yard, is a legal easement that they can use to repair, utilities, etc. But the city doesn’t take care of it, we do.
A swale is more of a feature you add to a lawn to help with drainage. It allows rainwater to be directed out of your yard.
I live in Norfolk, VA. I have a small yard, a front yard, and enough vegetation to keep the birds and the bees happy. I have a chain link fence in the back.
Most of these things you find in an American suburb depend on a few factors like how new/old your neighborhood is or what the wealth of the people living there is.
For example the house I currently live in the neighborhood is quite old and its not a part of an HOA so there are no side walks or typical street lights. Some of my neighbors wanted street lights so they bought and put in some decorative ones but not everyone has a street light on their property.
Also since its older and people had free reign to build their houses how they want our neighborhood has every kind of house you can think of from a very modest 1 floor 2 bedroom home to 2 floor homes that have a barn-like look to them and even a couple houses are essentially mansions.
The fence you're talking about is a chain link fence, I think they're common due to them being cheap and won't need repairs or replacements as often as a wooden fence would. Most people in America know to keep to themselves so unless you unfortunately have a very nosy neighbor most people don't see any reason to spend the money and time to get a new fence.
I live in North Texas. Nearly all of the home in my town have a 6-8 foot privacy wood fence.
Fencing is varied across the United States. The mesh fences you see are primarily designed to prevent small children or pets from running into the front yard or into the street. Privacy can be had by installing a privacy fence.
Those mesh fences are called Cyclone fences here.
Here we call them chain-link fences. They're mainly to keep children and pets from leaving the property. They are also much cheaper than a privacy fence.
The back fence thing really depends where you live and how old the house is. We bought a house built in the 1950s, and it had a chain-link fence along the back yard. We knew we wanted to adopt a big dog (we did), so we tore the chain link down and put up a wooden fence (but it had to have decorative finials because....rules or something). That's another thing to look at when you're thinking about moving - how much are the HOA monthly fees? Are there HOA rules that you're going to have issues with? (They'll usually give you their rules if you're considering moving in). Luckily, we live in a "city within a city" so we don't have an HOA, but we do have town rules about keeping your lawn mowed, trees you cannot cut down (we have an almost complete tree canopy over the entire neighborhood/city), what kind of replacement windows you can get. It's one of those annoying "adult" things you don't think about until you're in it.
I forgot to say, in HOA communities, if you do not pay your violation fees, the HOA can put a lean on your house that will really hit you in interest when you go to sell! They will get their money eventually. Not all communities have HOA, only private communities. More upscale or gated communities. I think y'all have something like HOA in the townhouses or row houses/ flats over there?
In St. Paul Minnesota you have a side walk then what we call it a boulevard that is in front of your house and it’s considered your responsibility to mow it even though it’s city property. What you call a garden we call a lawn a garden is a separate area where we plant flowers or vegetables. I plant flowers in my front garden & vegetables in my backyard garden and I have a chain link fence in my front yard and a nice 6 foot wooden privacy fence in my back yard.
I can only recall two houses that I lived in that had a chain link fence. They were older houses. One was really tiny and was built in the 40’s. The other house was built in the 60’s. The rest have had a cider block, rock wall, wroth iron, wooden fence or sometimes a combination of both.
I had a house that had both cinder block and two wooden fences for the backyard. It was a corner house. My front door was on one street. The three car garage, driveway and back door faced the other street. It’s what is known as a ranch house. It was a custom built California ranch style home. Single story home on 1/3 of an acre. That house was in Southern California.
I’ve lived in a few states. Nevada, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida (very briefly though) New Mexico, and now Texas. The one thing about Texas that I’ve noticed is a lot of the houses have the garage/ driveway in the backyard area. They have alleys so you don’t see the garage as the main feature.
I grew up in Massachusetts. Typically we can't see long distances because of the terrain. When I drove cross-country and saw different terrains, I was wowed and actually felt smaller than I did in Massachusetts. Out west you can see for miles. A big mountain might be 50 miles away. The big sky and silence of the west can't be experienced in Massachusetts. I doubt if it can be in England either.
Some things must be experienced to fully appreciate.
Plenty of people have big wooden fences, and there are some hedges, but they're usually like, waist high and found mostly in front yards
Hurricane fences (the first metal fence) can allow wind to whip through. A great advantage is you have a place where winds can be strong-like Chicago.
In Wyoming we often didn't have a more steep. The sidewalk was up against the curb. I prefer that. It's called a right of way in Minnesota and Wisconsin because it is technically owned by the city. That way they can deal with gas and drainage in neighborhoods. You can't build on it at all. Just grass, trees, and shrubs. It often includes the sidewalk.
I don’t mind the chain link fence. Sometimes when I or the neighbors have cookouts, we pass hotdogs and burgers over the fence if folks are hungry. However, you can change the fence if you want more privacy.
Tree lawn…the strip of grass between street and yard.
I'm in New Jersey. I never heard of the term "grass bay"… We call it a grass strip. Where I live, nobody really says downspout either we would say a drain pipe. We can say sidewalk or pavement. You can say that the sidewalk down the block needs to be fixed because the pavement is broken. We use both terms.
In Georgia it's the city right of way and if you ever buy gutters that part is called a down spout.
@@fermisparadox01 ... yeah we call them gutters also in New Jersey… I forgot about that word😀👍
@@DragonflySignsIn western Massachusetts I would call it a downspout and the gutters would be the part that was up along the roof edge to catch the rain and channel it into the downspout.
Most people I know have wooden privacy fences. Matter of fact, I really can’t remember the last time I saw a chain link fence on a house
The strip of grass between the road and the sidewalk is called public right away. It is where the water, sewer and gas lines are laid out. They could also be on the homeowners front lawn. Sometimes the wooden fences are so dogs can not try and bite the neighbors. It could also due to a pool being in the backyard. They are called attractive nuisances, and you can be sued for them. The picture you are showing of UK burbs, here in Mich. we call them apt or townhouse complexes. Suburbs here, usually mean stand alone houses. Connected houses are either Duplexes or townhouses. Duplexes can be in a burb, but its not common in my area.
At least for me, my backyard fence isn't for privacy. Mine is mostly for keeping my dogs on our property while unsupervised. It also keeps some animals from getting in....including my neighbors little bad ass kids lol
Most of the US do not have HOAs. HOAs are found in apartment areas to help maintain the buildings, and cover services on property such as gyms, pools, etc. They are also found in "tonier" suburban areas where the owners have guidelines to follow, along with fancier services in order to meet certain standards for uniformity such as only certain outside paint colors etc.for houses and
driveways, types of fencing to give a uniform appearances.
The "verge" is the strip of grass and lawn between the curb and the sidewalk.
Those fences are the ones used when I was a child in the 60s to the 70s. In older neighborhoods, you can find them but almost every everybody’s house has a wooden fence around it. Both houses that I have owned have always had wood fences. Although I really kind of like that chain-link it just gives up I don’t know I do like it.
HOA stands for Home Owners Association, and that little grassy space by the sidewalk is called a "common strip" in my community located in Maryland. Cheers! 😊
I usually call it (the grass between the street and the sidewalk) curb strip, curb grass, or roadside grass.
Chainlink fences are less about privacy and more about separating one property from another, as well as keeping your dog in your yard.
Not every home has chain link fences...perhaps in the front as a property divider, sometimes it's a hedge line, sometimes none at all if you have a big yard. There are privacy fences, made of wood or pvc, even chain link with slats of wood filling in the spaces. They are usually installed at the back of the house or even with the front of the house with a gate. Moreso if you have a pool you must have a six foot high fence surrounding your yard to keep people out as an insurance requisite.
In my hood we call that narrow grass strip next the curb 'the lawn'. Basically the front lawn includes any land from ones house to the curb. You are, in most cities, responsible for ALL maintenance to the curb. Some cities over tree/brush maintenance, some don't. There are reasons for all that but it takes each city to explain them. Gotta remember, each state makes their own rules and most state let each city within, make their own rules... to a degree.
Nobody I’ve asked has ever heard a name for that grass between the sidewalk and street. We just call it “the part of the the yard/lawn by the street.” xD
It's actually called the "verge". I have no idea why, lol.
Same. That grass that I never have had to refer to before and probably won’t again. Lol😂
In Utah we call it the Parking Strip.
In Ohio it’s called the devil strip
I grew up in Missouri where we called that the parkway (or park way). That part actually belongs to the local city/municipality/town, etc.
Boulevard...that's what we call that odd piece of grass between the street and the sidewalk. HOA is a Home Owner's Association but that only applies to certain neighborhoods. "Backyards" have different fence situations. My neighborhood isn't allowed to have a fence in the front yard, but my backyard is surrounded by a 6 foot tall brick fence. Downspout? We call a rain gutter in Montana.
My wife works at the government permit office, we call it the official name “utility easement”. That little strip between the street and sidewalk is your property, however the government claims unrestricted access to anything within 8-10 feet of the street for utilities such as water pipes, power poles, fire hydrants, etc…. Still technically your property, the government may just have stuff underneath or above it as needed.
The chain link fences aren't as big a thing anymore but it used to be. Doesnt require painting, keeps pets and kids in the yard etc. He lives in an older neighborhood so you see more chain link fences. New neighborhoods will have the 6 ft wooden privacy fence around the back yard. We dont fence the front yard.
Those are "chain-link" fences and they are usually to keep kids and dogs caged! There are also many forms of "privacy fence" that is solid and often 6 to 8 feet tall.
The patch of grass between the front sidewalk and the street is called a parkway in Illinois exburbs
In Upstate NY we call the grass between the curb and the sidewalk... wait for it...... the grass between the curb and the sidewalk. The median is the wide strip of grass separating opposing lanes of traffic, usually but not always on thruways/highways and very busy heavily traveled roads.
I'm pretty sure where I'm from we have always just called that strip of grass between the sidwalk and the road, yard... As in go mow the yard, or lawn whichever.
Idaho we call the grassy area between the sidewalk and road a Sway..They dip in the middle so during the winter snow plows can push snow of roads..kinda a pain to mow.
I was walking through the streets of Loughborough and yep ... pretty much looks like that. They had no yard but a front concrete patio.
HOAs - Home Owner's Association is a relative new thing in most of the US, maybe all, idk. They mostly occur in developments built by a single company where people give up their rights by signing a contract which limits things like colors you can paint your house, fences around your yard, pets you can allow outside and such. You also have to maintain your lawn (yard, garden) to a certain standard. Generally, they supply some community recreation facilities such as swimming pools and tennis courts. You have to pay a monthly fee to defer costs of the maintenance of all community amenities. Frankly, they are very un-American and there have been successful court challenges to them. Except in some suburbs of major cities, they aren't very common.
The grass between the curb and the sidewalk
I live in PNW we call it a median, the fencing you don't like is one of the cheaper fencing we got it because I could pay for it on my own and it showed property line. We have that so our neighbors who don't really have much of a yard knows the boundaries for legal reasons and also for well neighborly reasons. Why I say that is before it was fenced there was quite a bit of argument on where to place things. I solved the argument by getting a city surveyor and a contractor. My contractor put the fence .5 inch (about 1.3 cm) on my fence line to prevent neighbors from using it.
We also got it to keep the dog in. I don't hang out in my yard beyond to play with my pup and that's because I am highly allergic to grass (if it touches my skin I welt up, spring and summer is filled with nonstops nosebleeds).
Not everyone has an HOA, I will never buy a home in one because of the nonstop horror stories I've heard.
We had our chain link put in for the same reasons. No real neighbor problems, but kids playing hide and seek out back near the house bugged me.
@@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586 yeah our neighbors to the right are amazing, love them. The neighbors to my left are a rental so who we get varies. The one we got a year into us living here she'd move my bins because they were on her property (no they weren't), she'd do little passive aggressive stuff like that.
So after a few talks with her and the fact that I was back fostering dogs and would eventually get one I had the survey done and the fence put in. She couldn't complain anymore and because it was that tiny bit 1.3cm on my property I could tell her to remove anything hanging off the fence (she washed the thin plastic bags grocery stores used and would line dry them... why I don't know).
But it comes in handy when you have a neighbor like that and a brother in-law for lawyer. Because I stopped playing nice when her roommate left his dog in my fenced area without talking to me or telling me when he'd get back and 6 hours later he came back and was like "oh that's where I left her!"
11:04 yeah . . . I'll call it grass since that's what I'm already used to calling it
Verge = grass between curb and sidewalk. Call ours "the right of way" "easement" or as my husband says "the city's lawn". Our back yard=chain link in back and sides, wood fence in front. HOA's are not everywhere. Fences = keeping animals in/children in or out/safety. I definitely would feel closed in if my car was parked on the street next to the house. Street signs=the names two roads that intersect.
No, big houses have clearly blocked off backyards and the fronts in huge homes are often gated or private too, but not as often as backyards.
In upstate Pennsylvania, it's a berm. The curb is the cement edge that separates the road from the berm.
It's so funny when they call the yard...the garden....gardens have veges...
😂 it’s true…in the US, a garden always had edibles, whether it’s herbs or veggies. Just grass is “the yard”…And if there are just trees it’s “the woods”
Fences vary. We have. Large 6-7 foot wood privacy fencing in our backyard but also large hedges. We’ve always found chain link fences to be a bit tacky / lower class. I grew up on Long Island in an NYC suburb and now live in the Pacific Northwest - we’ve always called the grass strip near the curb the parking strip.
Some states have a Keep it green communities where you have to have a metal fence lined with bushes. Some have HOA’s some don’t. Most homes you can the type of fence you want.
Chain-link fences between homes in the US are super common. Mostly because it keeps pets & small children safe in the back yard of the house. It also keeps neighbors and their pets, kids, nosy assed "Karens" out of your yards.
It really depends on the town and neighborhood. Older neighborhoods have the chain link fences, mostly to contain a backyard pet. Now, 100% of new builds in neighborhoods have 6' wood privacy fence. Yards have gotten significantly smaller over time, as to cram as many houses in a space as possible. Older established neighborhoods and communities have a front and back yard. Many smaller communities do not have sidewalks. The closer you get to the city, the less grass you see. Rural communities have larger yards and if they have no animals, they usually don't have fences because of the maintenance on a large perimeter. Not all areas have HOA. Those are mostly in new build neighborhoods. I lived in one of those neighborhoods about 15 years ago and it was miserable.
We live in a forested rural area of New England and my husband taught a course at work to inner-city youth on how to navigate using a compass. These kids were honestly freaked out by being in the woods, it was so alien to them. To them even walking on grass was terrifying. Wish I was exaggerating but I'm not.
I live in Northern Indiana and here the strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk is often called a Tree Lawn.
I grew up in the Midwest. Fort Wayne, Indiana. It depends on the Home Owners Association HOA on the type of fence you are allowed. However I grew up in an old Queen Ann Victorian home built in 1893. It no longer had a rod iron fence in the front but My Dad had a chain link fence (the metal fence that you can see through) put up in the back with gates to keep little kids from running off. Our strip of grass is called a devils strip. But sometimes I say things different because my folks are from Akron, Ohio. Cheers!
that see through fence is a chaine link fence desind to keep dogs from escaping ! and most people talk to theire naighbor at the fince and get along verry well. some even have paths or walkways to and from eachothers home.
I’m in Nashville, and we don’t have many sidewalks in the burbs. We have stands if trees between our houses, which gives a lot of privacy.
In my neighborhood people have chain fences when they have dogs so they can be outside and can’t run away. Solid fences are used when you are making a mess in your yard and don’t want anyone to see it, or you just don’t like your neighbors.
The gap between the road and side walk is typically easement with water, sewer, gas, ect, running to the houses underground, so city workers don't have to destroy the sidewalk, street or peoples front yards to dig things up if work/ repairs are needed.
Those fences are usually to keep your dog in the yard and other animals out. In Cleveland we call it a tree lawn.
HOA’s aren’t everywhere. I’ve lived in several neighborhoods here in Texas and I’ve had everything from no HOA to a optional HOA (where you can join if you like but yes..there are dues)…to MANDATORY HOA…
Ive never thought about the strip of grass by the sidewalk. I always just thought it was part of the yard
In many American towns and suburbs having a fence around your front yard is against the building codes (unless it was put in before the code changed), and that's for one main reason. The water meters are usually located somewhere in the front yards of the homes, and if there is a fence the meter readers can't get close enough to read the meters with their hand held devices. They have to get out of whatever transport they use to move around reading meters and go inside the fence to pick up the signal from the meter. In my area the meter readers travel around on golf cats and have a 3' long stick with a device on the end that picks up the meter signal. A hundred years ago when I was a child the meter readers had to actually come into the yard, remove the very heavy iron top from the meter box, get on their knees and read the meter with their own eyes. Some cities have now adapted to centralized meter reading. They've installed meters that send the readings to the main computer every month and meter readers are no longer necessary (well, unless there is a problem with a meter that requires someone to actually go out to the property).
In America the "pavement" is the surface of the roadway. The "path" is called the "sidewalk". Where I live (Atlanta, Ga.) the "verge" is called the "curb strip". That is if you even have one. In the US not all streets have sidewalks, or curb strips. Generally the farther out in the rural areas you live the less likely you are to have sidewalks.
I'm also old enough to remember how cool it was when the meter readers started just zapping it and getting the reading from their vehicles. I also wanted to say if I got to ride a cat I'd probably consider taking up golf. Best typo ever, lol👍
Verges are the strip of grass between the sidewalk/pavement and the road. I call them berms or "that strip of grass we take care of that belongs to the city". Raised in mid-Missouri.
Haven't heard anyone suggest "easement" for that strip of grass, but your deed will usually refer to it as that--and there's usually a front and back easement in which you are responsible for maintaining but others (utilities, city agencies, fire depts) have the right to "trespass" on. Alot of us also have our mailboxes there if you are on a route where the postal carrier drives instead of walking their route.
One property we had, had a tall wooden fence all the way around. In our main property we have Is pirocanthia bushes long the fence by the driveway
The small or chain fences are usually because we try to interact with our neighbors (some of us). We wouldn't even have fences if it wasn't helpful to separating the property line or simple because we have dogs we can simply let our into the yard.
I'm almost certain that the official name of that strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk is called an easement. It's part of the land owner's property, but the municipality, county and state have access to it for utility maintenance and upkeep but mowing it or whatever remains the responsibility of the land owner.
In New Jersey we have a law that states that if you have a swimming pool, there must be a fence around it that locks as well. It is for safety. Any other fence is optional.
I'm from Pennsylvania, and we call it a curb. As for fences, everyone is different. But front yards are common and are frequently beautifully planted. The backyard is normally set up for family and relaxation.
HOA only applies to very planned out neighborhoods. If you buy outside of those there is no HOA although the town or city may fine you if you leave things in a bad condition. For instance being in a rural area I can buy a larger land plot. My home has 3 acres. About one acre I let the grass grow wild because wildlife like rabbits, foxes, birds, muskrats, Nutria and Deer like that type of thing. i planted a sassafras tree in the wild grass area because they have 3 leaf types on one tree and have dazzling leaf colors in the fall. Fences depend on what the need is. chain link fence (the open steel mesh) is used mostly to keep in dogs. The private type fences you can buy and some have them. Where I live the back of my house faces a forest. I have one neighbor to the side and if he is out we greet him. If we are grilling outside we invite him to eat with us. The other side of my house is my dad's house.
In the Hollywood Hills we had a 7 foot wall 7 inches from the curb and a 7 foot wall on the side of the property
Those fences are pretty rare here where I stay in California. Always taller wood fences.
I call it the ROW (Right of way) for that strip of lawn
In Minnesota we call it a boulevard and yes it’s considered your responsibility to mow the area in front of your house.
It’s just part of the lawn. Weird word. That’s our grass area, yard. Here in Michigan it’s our yard as a whole. Lawn is the grassy area of the yard. Garden is a flowery/plant area, or a area we have set aside to grow some sort of food. As long as it’s just part of the yard. Not a farm which is for growing food for resale. 😂 hope that’s not confusing