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Here in suburban Australia, in my street anyway, there's several households that do it multiple times a week. My neighbour mows every other day. I had a neighbo

Here in suburban Australia, in my street anyway, there's several households that do it multiple times a week. My neighbour mows every other day. I had a neighbour in another place who was on his ride on mower every afternoon at 5pm. There isn't a daylight hour of the weekends where you can't hear a mower or whipper snipper (weed whacker in American) in the vicinity. I've really grown to hate lawns.

kitten_mittens_ 5y ago
How hot is it there and how much does it rain? I grew up in Idaho, where in the summer it'd get to 42-44C relatively regularly. And there was at most 200mm of precipitation a year. Most of the grass in my parents' neighborhood was Kentucky Bluegrass. Mowing the lawn weekly was something that happened to help a bit with water retention. My dad always insisted on mowing every 4 days though.
- AnotherGoodName 5y ago
  I don't know about op but keep in mind it's a big country. Very close in size to continental USA. With as much climate variation. Sydney for example has a higher annual rainfall than places that Americans consider rainy (eg. Seattle). Combine that with warmer temperatures and in many parts of Australia you are fighting a potential jungle more than fighting desertification. Canberra, the capital, on the other hand regularly gets below freezing which means less mowing required.
  - graywh 5y ago
    > higher annual rainfall than places that Americans consider rainy (eg. Seattle) a surprising amount of the US gets more rainfall than Seattle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simple-great-map-shows-that-seattle-is-far-from-america-s-rainiest-city https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simp...
    - loonster 5y ago
      Looking at that map, there are very few places that rain as often as Seattle. Most of the US that gets more precipitation, gets it in large downpours (thunderstorms).
- brenainn 5y ago
  Where I live is subtropical, and there are times in summer where the grass seems to grow tall overnight. For the rest of the year you can get away with mowing every two or three weeks to keep it under control. It's the striving for constant perfection that bothers me, instead of just waiting till it needs to be cut. I know these people probably enjoy it and have a lot of pride in a manicured lawn. I just want to live somewhere with less of them around.
  - worthless-trash 5y ago
    I cant really call Brisbane subtropical, Townsville is brownsville, so this means cairns, darwin, weipa or charters.

kitten_mittens_ 5y ago

How hot is it there and how much does it rain? I grew up in Idaho, where in the summer it'd get to 42-44C relatively regularly. And there was at most 200mm of precipitation a year. Most of the grass in my parents' neighborhood was Kentucky Bluegrass. Mowing the lawn weekly was something that happened to help a bit with water retention. My dad always insisted on mowing every 4 days though.

AnotherGoodName 5y ago
I don't know about op but keep in mind it's a big country. Very close in size to continental USA. With as much climate variation. Sydney for example has a higher annual rainfall than places that Americans consider rainy (eg. Seattle). Combine that with warmer temperatures and in many parts of Australia you are fighting a potential jungle more than fighting desertification. Canberra, the capital, on the other hand regularly gets below freezing which means less mowing required.
- graywh 5y ago
  > higher annual rainfall than places that Americans consider rainy (eg. Seattle) a surprising amount of the US gets more rainfall than Seattle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simple-great-map-shows-that-seattle-is-far-from-america-s-rainiest-city https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simp...
  - loonster 5y ago
    Looking at that map, there are very few places that rain as often as Seattle. Most of the US that gets more precipitation, gets it in large downpours (thunderstorms).
brenainn 5y ago
Where I live is subtropical, and there are times in summer where the grass seems to grow tall overnight. For the rest of the year you can get away with mowing every two or three weeks to keep it under control. It's the striving for constant perfection that bothers me, instead of just waiting till it needs to be cut. I know these people probably enjoy it and have a lot of pride in a manicured lawn. I just want to live somewhere with less of them around.
- worthless-trash 5y ago
  I cant really call Brisbane subtropical, Townsville is brownsville, so this means cairns, darwin, weipa or charters.