I do not and never will understand the American suburban obsession with lawn maintenance.
No one has ever successfully explained that to me, even with as much as I know about sociology.
I do not and never will understand the American suburban obsession with lawn maintenance.
No one has ever successfully explained that to me, even with as much as I know about sociology.
My first thought (so probably wrong) is that lawns first were a kind of social signalling. That one was well enough off to leave relatively large areas of land free of any kind of productive use and instead devote it to decoration.
I’ve heard that in the depression people were planting gardens on any little scrap of dirt they could find. And in Poland (in communist tmes) no one had lawns, any area around a freestanding house was put to use in summer as vegetable or fruit gardens (or maybe flowers, which could also be sold).