You know what else is throwing away money: * Every house paying to own and store all the tools for maintaining a yard. * Every home owner spending 1-4 hours e

You know what else is throwing away money: * Every house paying to own and store all the tools for maintaining a yard. * Every home owner spending 1-4 hours each maintaining said yard, when economies of scale make outside labor about 400% more efficient. Unfortunately, much of these savings don't apply when 20% of the houses in a neighborhood outsource, and they all use 8 different companies. * The ridiculous cost of building, heating, cooling, and maintaining an 8 sided cube (read: house) vs when building them adjacent to each other (read: townhouse) and pooling resources for half the maintenance. * Every house even having its own yard, as opposed to plotting residential spaces with a shared "small park" adjacent to 4-10 residences, with even larger parks dispersed throughout. (Those houses with a tiny yard the breadth of a human wingspan are exempt from this criticism.) I swear whoever is designing rural areas needs to take a look at master-planned communities like Daybreak in South Jordan, UT [1]. Sure some folks may have a libertarian, give me some land leave me alone I'll take care of myself kind of mindset, but we humans evolved in tribes. We need to build more communities that encourage random interactions with the other homo sapiens around us, while getting rid of this wasteful (both economically and from a time-wasting perspective) emphasis on owning a home and maintaining a yard. [1] http://www.daybreakutah.com/daybreak-story/ http://www.daybreakutah.com/daybreak-story/