America has always liked its wide-open spaces and has had a preference for big homes on large plots with no neighbour in sight.

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California home to both Hollywood and Google has always liked big ideas.

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Oddly, the banh mi has always been the one kind of food I liked better outside its home turf.

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We may not have always liked the end result, but the electorate has always been right.

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Critics have not always liked his creations, however, and he has gained a reputation as something of a pompous curmudgeon.

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