Guterson mentions how boulevards in Green Valley are lined with developments and golf courses, in my home town our main road is lined with stores and very houses or developments and we have one golf course.
He also mentions how houses appear very similar, in my hometown there are a couple or neighborhood which appear similar but for the most part houses are very different depending on the likes of the owner, houses are more spread out so they have no connection with another house.
He also mentions boxy glass buildings, there is only one building in my hometown that looks like this.
He talks about Porshes and BMWs making their way to a swimming pool, in Lebanon your more likely to find dodges and fords, on the way to the lake.
Guterson says Green Valley has rich neighborhoods with gates and security, I am pretty sure Lebanon has no such neighborhood.
I also found it interesting that the people in the story did not want their real identitys mentioned, in my hometown, people would have found out all about the actions of people whether or not they wanted them to.