SilverMaple wrote:Finally, other people who don't understand what's so awesome about lawns.
Lawns suck; I've said it so many times I didn't feel like repeating it. Trying to raise English grasses in North America is wasteful and pointless. The common excuse is that children need a place to play, but my backyard growing up was mostly forest. Trust me when I tell you: trees beat grass for playing in, hands down.
And that brings me to another point: lawns suck, but
yards are awesome. Though I don't see the point of a suburban-size yard: you either want a yard just big enough to grow a garden (like I've seen in San Diego, Miami, and Queens), or else large enough that you can't make out the expressions on your neighbors' faces when you flip them off. (Bonus points if you can't actually see the neighbors.)
Personally, I'd love to have a yard of several acres: a half-acre garden behind the patio, berry bushes behind the garden, orchards (peaches, Seckel pears, and cider apples) behind the berries, and a forest with native trees all around the rim. Also, a couple of fowl yards off to the side, with ducks, geese, quail, partridges, guinea fowl, and possibly chickens and turkeys. *wistfulsigh*