Combine them and you have a golf course. It's like park where everything has been killed and replaced with turf and only rich people are allowed to enjoy.
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City is full? ROFLS my man there's not a single city in the US that represents anything close to 'FULL'. Not even NYC.
I can understand your frustration comrade, so let me translate for you.
Humans < cars and/or lawns
there is grass in your cancer garden
These grass lawns always looks awful. 1 color, 0 personality and no variety.
More plants are always better. Also even better plant a fucking tree.
I don't care if it's grass or trees, at the end of the day it's wasted space that could be more house. I lived in a suburb growing up and we literally never did anything on the front yard, yet it was like a third of our property.
The HOA would never allow such nonsense like trees and actual plant life!
Scotland has a cumulative moorland the size of Jamaica (That's artifical, not natural peat moor) Thats pretty much kept as desolate scrubland just so a few rich people can hunt deer and pheasants without any inconveniences like something for the animals to hide behind. I did a rough calculation and it works out to about one square kilometer per person per single hunting trip being put asside for the entire year.
Name a more wasteful use of land
Golf course.
I think there are more green desert lawn than golf courses in most places. But golf course is, of course, very wasteful and unnecessary
At least it gets used for something, unlike most people's front yards. Hell even some people's backyards I see and it looks like they never use it.
Speak for yourself! Personally I like to wear my boxers and sit on my lawn chair in my front yard while I whittle a stick to a sharp point so I can poke my broke down, rusted out, station wagon. Also every Saturday I get out there in the front and just rev the shit out of my engine at like 6AM. Gotta keep those property values down somehow ya know?
I just want to live in a world where I can just walk around and go shopping please I'm begging you world. I'm sick of flying around for tens of miles on end with terrible wings!
Just move to another country. You might also get free medicine as a bonus.
Fuck I wish it were that easy. I wanna get the fuck out of here.
Well, from my experience - it's very easy. Pack your shit and move.
Really? How? Where did you move? Did you get citizenship, or like a work visa?
Living abroad as an American is pretty dope.
Isn't it a bitch to stay indefinitely and find work legally?
Depends on where you go and what your skills are. I've had steady, legal work for six years and am now choosing to go back to the US. For me personally living abroad was never going to be permanent. And I'll probably go back to it at some point. But I wouldn't trade the last six years for anything.
People should be allowed to own land and own homes with yards
Yeah, sure, people also have the right to fly private jet, but that doesn't mean it is a "good" decision.
sure, and people should also be guaranteed a right to housing, now which one do you prioritize?
Just implement a Japanese solution 
They should equally be allowed to own homes without yards. But exclusionary zoning, minimum setback, and maximum lot coverage laws don't allow that.
Exactly. People love to treat it as "a war on cars/lawns/etc.", but it's really a war on everybody who doesn't want to be legally mandated to have those. All we're asking for is to end the legal mandates (zoning, parking minimums, setback requirements, etc.) and for those who wish to partake in those wasteful luxuries to pay their true price without public subsidy.
Meanwhile rural areas exists what effect would turning a necessity for them into a luxury?
There's plenty of land that isn't in a city. Go get it.
If that's what you want, the place for that is the country side. But for those of us who want to live with amenities, this shit has got to stop.
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