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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We mow our lawn, rake and bag all our leaves, buy mulch and clean our beds, plant flowers in the spring and fall. We also clean our house, mop our floors, clean bathrooms.  I can’t understand how people can afford $150/week for a cleaning service and $50/week mowing service.  It’s sooo $$$ in this area. [/quote]

Ouch, yes! Labor is super expensive in this area, but paying $$ for manual labor frees me to concentrate on whatever I am prioritizing.

As an immigrant, I think it is ridiculous that without affordable landscapers and gardners available, there still exists a iculture of huge lawns and yards in this country. [/quote]

It's because the basic premise of housing in America was to ape their betters back in England with their verdant lawns on huge estates (the same argument would apply to the debutante balls here too). America is a crabgrass frontier baking in the hot sun but Americans have long wanted to have the gentry appearance of overcast, wet and never hot & humid England.  Not even middle-class UK homes try to have the huge pointless lawn but Americans absolutely needs to have that patch of manicured non-biophilic green. Today it is rather comical that Americans spend so much time fighting weeds on non-gardened lawns. Nobody in the UK spends time seeding with non-native grass like Americans do.[/quote]

Thank you for the reality check. This entire thread is absurd![/quote]

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