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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Oilman:
Well, that's true. I've rented accommodation over the years. You may need the landlord's approval; the landlord can prohibit certain individuals from so much as entering the property. The landlord has to comply with legal restrictions on overcrowding and insurance.
Perhaps it's more true to say that the contractual restrictions are much more restrictive, and more closely enforced in the US thsn in UK.
pwhodges:
Yes, it definitely comes across so in many circumstances.
But it may be more that the law allows the landlord more freedom to be unsympathetic, just as we've been seeing in the discussion of employment law in the WCDT.
Oilman:
I'm told that US restrictions on persons in accomodation are partly derived from legislation designed to suppress electoral fraud - "vote early and vote often" etc. I don't know if this is so, but I could believe it.
explicit:
I know the terms of my lease were very strict and we could be kicked out for any violation, which of course included adding an extra person to the house. Of course, where I lived you were only allowed to have 5 people on a lease for renting (unless you were family). A noise violation was grounds for immediate removal... this was a strict town in general...
Oilman:
I've long since come to the conclusion that the U.S. is good fun in small doses but I've never felt the urge to live there.
Americans live in a communal style, it seems, despite their almost infinite space. Shared dormitory accomodation is pretty much extinct in UK higher education; you get communal apartments with en-suite but not the sort of thing you see in DoA. I worked on an American pipelay barge a year or two ago which had 2-man and 4-man cabins, which is VERY old school by European standards; the British and Dutch blokes moaned like crazy and the Yanks couldn't understand it. But, we went to the pub every night in port, which you DO NOT do on a British vessel....
Try to get the police out to a noisy, disorderly party over here, and see how you get on.
I had a visit from family based in the U.S, a couple of years ago. They were astounded at the extent and scale of under-age drinking, by which I mean under-18s. They seemed to think the police would come and kick the doors in, because we had beer and wine on the table at meals and allowed a 14-year-old cousin to have some.
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