• qisope@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Depends where you are looking. I live slightly out of town, and the subdivision HOA does little more than road maintenance and snow plowing (so the HOA owns a plow truck and a tractor), trash service, maintenance of communal areas.

        A nearby subdivision has no HOA and it must be a pain working out who’s responsible for maintaining or snow plowing sections of road, with the answer from everyone probably being “not me”, and everything is a mess.

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            Sure, but having the home owners come together in some kind of association to take on some basic services makes the suburbs slightly more sustainable for the city. When the city does everything for the suburbs it’s a serious problem - the infrastructure costs more because of the huge lots and lack of housing density so they have to build more. Dense urban areas generate more tax revenue and most suburbs and neighborhoods of single family homes end up costing cities money, it’s one more way society subsidizes the lives of wealthier people.

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    10 months ago

    I was fined 700$ for letting it grow. I moved from that fascist cunthole of a town. I should have killdozed them all.

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        10 months ago

        I think they might be hard to maintain, there’s a reason they rake it everyday. I remember seeing one at a hospital and it was dusty and dead looking. But if you have the energy, more power to you.

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          10 months ago

          Huh. Maybe could mod a lawn cutting robot to rake it? I’d be happy to tend to the shrubs, but daily raking seems a bit much. I have piles of stones in yard now that never get raked and seem ok though.

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            Huh. Maybe could mod a lawn cutting robot to rake it?

            That’s honestly a great idea, make it look like an air ball, lol.

            I have piles of stones in yard now that never get raked and seem ok though

            I don’t know your set up, but if the piles of stones are surrounded by nature, then there’s movement around it and they won’t look dusty and dead. Also, it looks different if it’s all rocks and there’s no contrast with at least equal amounts of nature. That could be it?