Combine them and you have a golf course. It’s like park where everything has been killed and replaced with turf and only rich people are allowed to enjoy.
I don’t care if it’s grass or trees, at the end of the day it’s wasted space that could be more house. I lived in a suburb growing up and we literally never did anything on the front yard, yet it was like a third of our property.
Scotland has a cumulative moorland the size of Jamaica (That’s artifical, not natural peat moor) Thats pretty much kept as desolate scrubland just so a few rich people can hunt deer and pheasants without any inconveniences like something for the animals to hide behind. I did a rough calculation and it works out to about one square kilometer per person per single hunting trip being put asside for the entire year.
Speak for yourself! Personally I like to wear my boxers and sit on my lawn chair in my front yard while I whittle a stick to a sharp point so I can poke my broke down, rusted out, station wagon. Also every Saturday I get out there in the front and just rev the shit out of my engine at like 6AM. Gotta keep those property values down somehow ya know?
I just want to live in a world where I can just walk around and go shopping please I’m begging you world. I’m sick of flying around for tens of miles on end with terrible wings!
Depends on where you go and what your skills are. I’ve had steady, legal work for six years and am now choosing to go back to the US. For me personally living abroad was never going to be permanent. And I’ll probably go back to it at some point. But I wouldn’t trade the last six years for anything.
Exactly. People love to treat it as “a war on cars/lawns/etc.”, but it’s really a war on everybody who doesn’t want to be legally mandated to have those. All we’re asking for is to end the legal mandates (zoning, parking minimums, setback requirements, etc.) and for those who wish to partake in those wasteful luxuries to pay their true price without public subsidy.
No, we’re advocating 15 minute neighborhoods, which could be part of a megacity, but don’t have to be. We are advocating higher density housing as that is better for everyone including the environment.
I mean I dunno, I think if you actually confined the global human population to that level of extreme density, it might be more environmentally friendly. I’m not quite sure of that really because the portrayals in all of the different kinds of media are so vastly different. Obviously the actual environment itself is kind of a 90’s cocaine hellscape, but I dunno. I guess my point is maybe just that I find the architecture of cyberpunk landscapes to really be way too impressive and imaginative for the level of dystopia it’s supposed to be. A more cynical vision of humanity is one that’s not even capable of large built infrastructure projects, and just covers the earth in asphalt and concrete because they’re so consistently chasing short term gains.
a sensible christian will still consider you a brother in christ, but not shove it down your throat. You don’t have to agree for it to still be “true”.
My eighth of an acre is entirely clover, dandelions, and weeds. Eventually, I’ll get around to planting some vegetables, but my thumb is whatever the opposite of green is. I’ve started by trying to grow some herbs this spring, half of which are already dead.
Living with no HOA that forces grass on me FTW.
Can’t do much about having a car though. No public transportation anywhere near and work is twenty miles away. Believe me, I’d much much rather not drive.
Killing off the grass is how I finally got my garden started. The native plants could deal with the grass sucking up all the water it could. The garden plants couldn’t. Take a rototiller to your lawn, if you know about rainfall plains and patterns to create a reservoir for your garden plants. Grass and clover will absolutely steal all the water from all the other plants.
Plant a bunch of trees, put down some mulch. Walk away for a year, with no worries. Once a year, add mulch. Enjoy providing habitat for birds and small mammals, plus the shade and privacy, for zero maintenance.
Look up mini-forest, micro-forest, tiny-forest, research. Crazy how a few trees changes a landscape for animals.
I definitely miss the birds at the last place I lived. There was a delightful married cardinal couple, various and sundry doves, and the occasional crow.
Now I’ve got a couple stray cats battling over the territory, neither of which is quite sure what to make of me.
I’ve also got possum bro. He just kinda hangs out and gives me a nod every once in a while.
Tbh, my favorite kind of gardening is the kind that thrives on neglect. I love making ecosystems that thrive on their own, without my constant input. There’s just something beautiful about seeing life thrive on its own.
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