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Housing Rule
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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Yes. Yes. We played video games or read books or had to have our parents drive us to a park or walked the whole way (no sidewalks) there.
Because our officials are incompetent. Yes. Yes.
See above on lobbying from oil and car companies.
Because the word "commie" is scary to Americans from decades of indoctrination and the "nuclear family" having their own home is the biggest lie in the "American Dream."
Because of zoning laws. Refer to the above about incompetent officials. Yep, it is simply not possible and legal.
Americans care way more about appearances than actually having things be useful. What can I say, we're fucking coddled.
Hope this helps. It's valid to still be baffled at such.
But that is the strange part to me: its appearance is awful. A big garden full of plants is much nicer looking than only grass.
So many Americans get rock hard about their lawns, and demand that everyone else does as well. There is no logic to it
Two pet theories I have about this
it is profitable for big chemical companies and whatever lobby makes the lawnmowers and weed whackers for everyone to have these big lawns that need to be maintained via mowing and pesticides. There are breeds other than bluegrass that don't grow that tall, chiefly buffalo grass, with deeper roots that make it generally more healthy, less patchy, less susceptible to weeds, etc.
It is convenient for the ruling class that we have to do all this maintenance individually, leaving us less time (and wealth) to organize and build community/alternative modes of governance. Divide and conquer and all that.
OK I lied here's a 3rd: