Thank you all for your lovely comments, you're very kind. We're lucky here because we not only have all the beautiful surroundings, we also have all the rivers and the boating as well, which is where we've spent most of the day..... and of course still within easy commuting distance of the Metropolis!!
@Holly Saunders It is so beautiful and CLEAN! So many of our roads and rural areas get littered with people's paper from their last fast food stop. Only if you live in a more expensive area or just get lucky are you able to avoid the paper and can trash. Thanks for posting those. Next time I go to my parents, I will share them. My parents love England and Scotland.
You're welcome Bess.. ..but I have to tell you I do live in a very expensive area.. but mostly everywhere is clean..regardless of that .. there are of course less salubrious parts of certain cities and towns in the UK which do have a problem with mess and litter... but overall the UK is a very clean country!!
What I'm curious about, why did you put the word "hood" in your title. Here in the U.S., the meaning of "hood" isn't very good at all. Most people here relate the word "hood" to gangs and drugs.
Yes, the area you live in looks nice and clean. Where we live now, looks much, much cleaner than where we use to live...…….and we lived in a nicer area of Jacksonville, as a motor officer w/JSO (local law enforcement agency) told us when we first moved there. Of course, that was when we first moved there in January 2009. It wasn't that way when we left! There were those that would put their trash bag on either the roof or the truck of their vehicle, forget it was there, forget to go to the trash can in the apt. complex, drive out of the complex and it would fall off into the side of the street into the grass and bust open. Just seemed like nobody cared there anymore. There were a number of times we seen trash laying out in the grass along the main street where we lived.