I would like all my land to be entirely house, please. It’s not freedom unless I’m squashed in enough that I can reach out my window and touch my neighbour’s balls.

Edit: Jesus Christ guys, I didn’t know we were so pro-McMansion. Look at how much space these houses are wasting that could go into native green space (not lawns, but the actual nature shit we need to not go insane) or community areas. I’m not against high-density living, I’m against waste, and environmental homogeny

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Front yards are a useless waste of space anyways. They’re too public to do any actual living in.

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Ehh…you can actually grow food accessible to all in a front garden, put a free library there, etc. Maybe it’s not for everyone, and it’s certainly nice to have private space also, but front yards have their place.

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It would make more sense to concentrate food production in larger fields instead of in dumb individual front yards.

Anyways, I would rather have more room for growing food in the back yard than having a front yard.

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Sure. And yet, in the absence of more radical collective spaces, a front yard can provide a little bit of that, and is nice. Doesn’t have to be for everyone.

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When you grow your own food you know exactly what went into it.

The “larger fields” are called factory farms. Sure they’re more efficient, but at terrible cost. They wash the fields with toxic pesticides and genocide every living thing that’s not the desired plant.

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