[LMB] OT: Doctor Who

[ANDREW BARTON]

Rachel Ganz <rachel at compromise.fsnet.co.uk>

  replied to (but removed the attribution)
> 1: OK, this can backfire for cultural reasons, like the UK version of
 THAT '70s SHOW that failed to take into account things like the town
 the UK version was set in not having basements as a default feature in
 
 homes. <
   
  saying ..
  
> AFAIK, there is no town in the UK which American basements are a
 standard feature. There are some Victorian houses which have basement
 kitchens, and some London houses where they expanded downwards when they
 couldn't get planning permission to expand upwards, but it is not a common
 concept. Here, families bicker in the living room. Or the kitchen-diner.
 Does anyone else have any "den" experience to share? <
   
  It's not totally unknown.  I used to live in a terraced house in Battersea, and every house in the terrace had been built (around 1900) with a basement.  I don't think many of the basements were either kitchens or places where families bicker.
   
  Andrew