The really crazy thing is that in many places you are required to maintain your lawn in something like the traditional manner. Not just in crazy Southern states

The really crazy thing is that in many places you are required to maintain your lawn in something like the traditional manner. Not just in crazy Southern states, either. In my own town in Massachusetts, I remember a controversy about someone letting their lawn revert to a proper meadow, neighbors complaining that it harbored pests which destroyed their lawns, etc. It was crazy and hypocritical, but also exemplary of a common reality across the US.