What do you guys think of people with messy yards with junked cars everywhere and rusting junk on their lawns or unmown grass and rundown homes.

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I ask, as many shows show poor people with rubbish on their lawns and ancient cars rusting. I find junked cars funny for some reason. Here in NZ, you cna be fined for not mowing your lawns and keeping a yard that is a health nuisance, but this is seldom enforced, yet here in Auckland where I live 99% of homes are at least mowed lawns and 3/4 are in gardens. This contrasts to places in Australia I visited where half of the yards in West Sydney I saw had overgrown or dead grass and several had dead cars and oil drums rusting on them.

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It is the same in Maori towns, where most houses are unpainted and there are overgrown lawns and old cars everywhere. Also noticed on google earth, many ghettoes in Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and Detroit have like apartment buildings from 1840 that are abandoned, neglected and blocks with half of them missing. How can peoplelive like this. Do any of you live in a neglected home or section or have a dead car on your yard. (Of course I don't, my yard and home are immaculate and always will be, as longa s I have working legs and hands).

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maplenpg said:

EmmaMcG said:

I'm quite small and weak.

....you said you don't drink, do you not EAT either? C'mon, get some of that spud or whatever inside ya.....

EmmaMcG said:

Just have daisies in your yard.

2freaky4church1 said:

NorthC said:

2freaky4church1 said:

Just have daisies in your yard.

They will blind U.

You know what? I've wondered the SAME thing.

Our backyard isn't exactly pristine, but I can't imagine living with piles of garbage sitting around my home. When I ride the train into NYC, you get a first-hand look at people's backyards, and when you get to the poorer neighborhoods you see hoarding of junk and garbage. It's almost like the less money you have, the less you want to part with "stuff"???

PurpleJedi said:

You know what? I've wondered the SAME thing.

Our backyard isn't exactly pristine, but I can't imagine living with piles of garbage sitting around my home. When I ride the train into NYC, you get a first-hand look at people's backyards, and when you get to the poorer neighborhoods you see hoarding of junk and garbage. It's almost like the less money you have, the less you want to part with "stuff"???

I don't really understand why you can't see the logic in this. Poorer people have to save longer and sacrifice more in order to buy 'stuff' and therefore attach more emotion to it. Therefore when it comes to making decisions about throwing it away, they see it as throwing away both money that they invested and also memories, making it very difficult to part with anything. Poorer people see more value in stuff, they tend to save things 'just in case' they need them one day, even though they know the probability is they never will. Poor people also find it hard to resist a bargain, telling themselves they will one day benefit from the bargain, even though they probably just end up with something else they didn't want or need - but what little money they had paid for it so they won't throw it away.

It is utterly disgusting.

People with filthy yards usually also have filthy homes inside and people who have filthy homes inside usually also have filthy personal hygiene.

Like I said...disgusting.