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Hah. the biggest inaccuracy here is too many roundabouts.
Honestly, the part that shocks me landing in the US is typically the repeat buildings. The same mall, the same school, the same baseball... eh... court? pitch? gamey space? All of it repeated at regular intervals, surprisingly close to each other.
Because you can't all get to the same one, so they need to copy paste the facilities within driving distance for coverage area like it's Sim City.
Also, holy crap, that's why Sim City works like that.
EDIT: Also why even in moder city builders you can't have housing over commercial areas and why people freak out by cranking up their taxes by 0.1%, but I had noticed those already.
Devs from a city builder game (SimCity or Cities: Skyline) tried to replicate the scale of buildings/lots in real life, but then they realized that a small percentage of the lot is the actual building and it’s mostly parking lots.
Gotta love the cost of free parking here in America
It's called a baseball diamond.
That's what you call the actual field, not just the actual square part with the bases? I wasn't being facetious, I genuinely didn't know what word to use there.
It's named after the bases but I believe it includes the outfield too.
Just call it a stadium. The names will vary with being called a field, park, or stadium, but if you say stadium everyone will know what you mean.
E.g. Turn left by (the stadium/Wrigley Field/Fenway Park/Dodger Stadium)
ETA: Field is generally used for small ones, like you would see in a public park. So if you go to city park to play football/soccer/baseball/whatever, you would call it the $SPORT field if it is on grass. If it is on a hard surface like basketball or tennis, you would say court. Stadium is for large structures with several thousand+ of spectators, and again the proper names are inconsistent, but stadium as a general term works.
Hopefully this helps. American English is all sorts of ambiguous and inconsistent. One positive is it is nice not having gendered nouns and it is forgiving enough that even with grammar errors, a native speaker will know what you mean, like the plural of cow is sometimes cattle when you used as an adjective "cattle farm". Nobody would be confused if you said "cows farm", but along with the inevitable accent, it would be a tell that you aren't a native speaker