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        Closer to 10. Yes.

        This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it’s the best you can do sometimes.

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          it astounds me that people don’t do this, really

          like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i’m travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!

          Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.

          • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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            it astounds me that people don’t do this, really

            It’s a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around the foothills where wildfires are common.

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        Alternatively do this with bamboo (properly contained so it doesn’t spread) and it will be giant in under 1 year

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    I live in a cabin in the woods

    I live in a cabin in the woods

    I live in a cabin in the woods

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    looks like hell, actually

    utterly lonely and desolate, no one to help you if you get a health issue, no amenities anywhere nearby, nowhere to take a walk, etc etc etc

    actually more accurately it looks like purgatory, where you await your eternal judgement.

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      There could be a major road just out of frame. The trees are probably for a combination of windbreak (especially if this is amidst long stretches of open land), shade, and maybe privacy.

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      Who says you can’t have an underground workshop, a gaming setup, a matrix+lemmy+mastodon server, an underground FTTH connection, an escape tunnel with a joyride leading straight to the highway and 100m below all of that, a nuclear power plant.

      Ok, maybe someone will say something about the last one, but… You know?

      CC BY-NC-SA

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      looks like purgatory

      Having visited with family that “retired out to the country”, I can tell you that it feels like purgatory as well.