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[quote=Anonymous]My neighborhood (Mt Rainier) has no HOA (we do have code enforcement but I think it's as incompetent as the rest of the city government) and a wide variety of yard care standards. I figure the trade offs are worth it. We have a lot of quirky, interesting gardens and some really beautiful ones. We have some "previously gardened" gardens, I call them, because you can tell that someone used to tend to it but pretty much doesn't any more. It's interesting to see how they transition. And then we have "boring, but tidy" and "boring and unkempt." Part of that is just what happens when older people stay in their homes without a lot of money.

Before this I lived in a neighborhood where almost all of the green space was professionally tended, and one of the things that happens really fast is that your eye gets used to some of the chaos and it doesn't bother you as much. Also, we have a lot of birds and bugs and other creatures (we'd have more, but we also have a lot of "outside" cats wtf). I really like watching them.

There is still kind of a hippie vibe going which means people let their grass grow long but they get really excited when the paw paws are ripe.

I like how I could put a vegetable garden in the front yard and no one would flinch, but they might offer me seeds. [/quote]

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