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Its eye-opening to see how little understanding of American living conditions are overseas despite the pervasive distribution of American media. My 'patch' of
by mrkstu 7y ago
Its eye-opening to see how little understanding of American living conditions are overseas despite the pervasive distribution of American media.
My 'patch' of grass here in Texas is thousands of square feet. The lot my house site on is .33 of an acre, which in metric is 1335 square meters. The house itself is ~3200 sq. feet (306 sq. meters) over 2 stories so the foundation is roughly 1/2 that so you can extrapolate that is a crap-ton of area left for our patch of grass.
This is in no way unusual or extravagant for the suburb I live in and provides lots of enjoyment for our 2 dogs and 6 kids.
- mosdl 7y agoBecause everyone else has it doesn't stop it from being excessive and wasting water. In California we are seeing more and more people switching to drought tolerant landscaping.
- mrkstu 7y agoOur part of Texas has overfilling dams and our particular town has enough excess water that neighboring municipalities are buying our unused rights from us. Our Texas adapted grass goes dormant half of the year as well so the actual consumption is relatively minimal. Our water use is fractional of a traditional manicured English garden.