Don't fence me in?

Its was a long weekend this weekend...like it's not a long weekend for me every weekend, I'm a lucky girl!

But because it was a long weekend EVERYONE was out back/ side or front BBQ - ing.
Why do I know this? because they don't have fences, nope, NO FENCES. Miles and miles of lawns all around and no fences, no front fences no back fences no inbetween back and front fences. NO FENCES!

Now I don't get this. Really if these houses with their double garages/ beautiful driveways/ manicured gardens and lawns were in England they would have dirty great fences on all sides, probably 6ft high fences, maybe with razor wire on the top, maybe with beautiful ivy climbing over them, but fences of some sort all the same.

These are the things that woulld freak me out if I had no fences:
how do you know whats yours?
how do you know what to mow?
what stops your kid from running away?
What stops your dog from running away?
what stops you dog running away with your kid?
where would they go? hem sorry...
what about people snooping around you back yard late at night, scary?
what about doggy poop from next door in your garden?

So why don't Americans have fences?
Maybe they just don't sell fences? I've never seen a fence shop thinking about it? but I'm not in the market for buying a fence.
maybe theres soooo much land over here people don't need to parcel it?
what would happen if you put up a fence would everyone follow?

The one good thing with no fence is the neighbors kid would't have to keep comming round to get his ball back.
the bad thing is ...the neighbors kid!

The other day we saw a house we really love, it was perfect the dream home, 5 beds, basement for the 'games room', an 'in out' drive, kitchen lounge diner all in one, all beds were ensuite, it had studio space & an office and beautiful manicured garden....gorgeous...but you know what would make it absolutely perfect?.....A FENCE!

EGNY x