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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Manicured lawns are an environmental waste. Clover lawns and easy to manage perennials are the better way to go.[/quote]
Ok. I don't disagree. But these neighborhoods have grass lawns. They are not maintained and look ugly. If you keep grass, you should at least maintain it. 
Look at the sidewalks. They are full of grass with weed. If it was only the weed, that would be fine, but the worst thing is that nobody is even cutting the grass. It either looks thin and dead or neglected like a forest.[/quote]

Speaking only for myself here, and living in Chevy Chase, DC, my two options are to spend all the hours from 6 PM till sundown doing my own lawn, or paying an outside firm $800 a month to achieve your aesthetic goal. It would be far cheaper to just get guys to cut the grass, but to achieve what you’re actually talking about is about 800 a month

Does that answer your question?[/quote]

800 a month? It that what it costs? That's not what people pay to get it done in the burbs.[/quote]

PP here. Yes, during the growth seasons and cleanup months (Oct - Dec 1). For a 5500 sq ft property with multiple trees, shrubs, some lawn and perennial beds.  In 20015 near Reno Rd. Again, this is the rate to achieve what OP describes. To just have a crew come and cut your grass and weeds every two weeks with their pick up truck would cost less I’m not denying that. But for fertilizing weeding mulching composting trimming trees shaping bushes. Yeah that’s what it costs. Planting annuals, overseeding as needed, edging, aeration. Dividing perennials …. Planting bulbs, cutting back the daffodils when they turn brown. Pulling weeds.
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Ok fine. But my point is that the yards in DC area suburbs look much better. You are saying it's because maintaining a yard is expensive. 
Do residents in the suburbs have more more money than those in NW DC? Nope. 
If it's not money, what is it?
Others are making it about the climate. The climate is the same in the suburbs.
Maybe it's just that people in the suburbs care more about their yards? If it's true, why?
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