I’ve noticed some people treat their lawn like a carpet. If there is 1 leaf, that’s clutter that needs to be picked up. If a tire touches their grass, it’s like you got oil on their rug. They’ve usually manicured their lawn into 1 species monoculture grass with zero weeds and zero bugs. Which because of this lack of diversity, it is now incredibly fragile.
For many people, their yard is like a room of the house. And they expect people to treat it with a living room level of respect. They’ve put a lot of effort into creating this fragile monoculture grass, and they’re protective of it.
Maybe you can tell from the way the question is phrased, but I view the outdoors as different than indoors. If someone misses my driveway and leaves a mark in the grass, I don’t care because I know the grass will grow back eventually. If leaves fall on my yard, I don’t pick them up. These problems tend to solve themselves. At least that’s my view. But I’ve noticed a lot of people see it the other way.
It’s weird whatever trend is going on now.
My parents just got new neighbors who destroyed the entire garden, paved it over and just sit there, talking, smoking, giggling, playing music, like it’s their living room.
Some other new neighbors further down the road bought a house with a beautiful garden and killed everything to replace it with tiles and gravel. They’re never even outside.
People actually complain when leaves from their neighbor’s trees fall onto their property.
And it’s as if people don’t remember how it was in the 90s and before. They freak out when there’s a bug. The world used to be full of bugs before. And it’s the people who have nothing but grass who actually water their gardens.
I do what I can with the little balcony space I have. It’s messy but it’s green.