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Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by balfirevic »

adriand wrote: post #119
acapybara wrote: post #108

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There's a big assumption persisting throughout this thread which I will challenge. That is: that HOA rules and enforcement results in better-maintained properties. What I have observed as a near-universal property of neighborhoods is that there are good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods. This always correlates with the quality of the population of the surrounding area, and sometimes (but not always) correlates with…

We're from different places, clearly - where I live (in a mid-sized Canadian city), there are no HOAs. In fact, I'm not sure they're a thing in Canada more generally. Here, property standards are part of municipal bylaws. Many of the neighbourhoods in this city are quite diverse - in Canada more generally, I've never noticed the sudden, obvious changes in socioeconomic status that you notice after crossing a street o…

> There is also a legal (not to mention moral and ethical) requirement to clear snow from the sidewalk in front of your property within 24 hours of a snowfall.

What happens if you're away from home for a week (or a month)?

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by Dylan16807 »

roflyear wrote: post #113
Dylan16807 wrote: post #61

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What kind of lawn needs that, rather than 1-2 hours of mowing per month? (I'm assuming an area where grass actually fits the environment. If grass won't just grow then that's a problem that doesn't need more explanation.)

Once a week at $80/w is not insane. Adds up.

It's not insane but it sure sounds like overkill to me. That's a good bit for just mowing, and once a week is significantly more than I would expect from someone who views lawn mowing as an expensive necessity.

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by adriand »

balfirevic wrote: post #121
adriand wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're from different places, clearly - where I live (in a mid-sized Canadian city), there are no HOAs. In fact, I'm not sure they're a thing in Canada more generally. Here, property standards are part of municipal bylaws. Many of the neighbourhoods in this city are quite diverse - in Canada more generally, I've never noticed the sudden, obvious changes in socioeconomic status that you notice after crossing a street o…

> There is also a legal (not to mention moral and ethical) requirement to clear snow from the sidewalk in front of your property within 24 hours of a snowfall. What happens if you're away from home for a week (or a month)?

You either have to arrange for someone else to do it, or, the city will do it and issue a fine / charge.

In practice, enforcement is complaint-driven, so the city won’t generally do anything until someone takes the time to report it.

Reporting it may sound meddlesome, but watching an elderly person trying to move around the day after a heavy snowfall is nothing short of tragic. It’s a real issue of equity that needs to be taken more seriously than it is.

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by beckingz »

Auracle wrote: post #116
nakedrobot2 wrote: post #94

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you don't know anyone who got Lyme disease do you?

I do. It's usually perfectly treatable with antibiotics and chronic (post-treatment) Lyme disease is...controversial, among doctors. I'm not saying it isn't real, but I've known a person that thought they had celiac disease, then it was Lyme disease, then it was something else, and something else... It's one of those things that people can convince themselves they have, and there's no way to actually test for it. The…

My mother had lyme disease, which kicked off several years of auto-immune issues. Low energy and near-depression for years. No joke.

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by InfamousRece »

ethbr0 wrote: post #72
giantg2 wrote: post #18

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Similar for mosquitoes in FL

People are insane about lawns in Florida. Sandy soil that's so nutrient-deficient that you can't grow anything without chemical fertilizer. And then the damn St. Augustine that everyone obsesses about (a) still needs watering during the summer if it rains too little & (b) gets aggressively eaten by fungus if it rains too much. It's seemingly not uncommon for people to resod their lawn every few years. And they replan…

Many HOAs require a specific type of grass so they might have no choice.

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by roflyear »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #122
roflyear wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once a week at $80/w is not insane. Adds up.

It's not insane but it sure sounds like overkill to me. That's a good bit for just mowing, and once a week is significantly more than I would expect from someone who views lawn mowing as an expensive necessity.

It's mowing + weedwacking which most lawns will need. But yeah you can do every 2 weeks.

Re: No Mow May, Low Mow Spring

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Post by Auracle »

beckingz wrote: post #124
Auracle wrote: post #116

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I do. It's usually perfectly treatable with antibiotics and chronic (post-treatment) Lyme disease is...controversial, among doctors. I'm not saying it isn't real, but I've known a person that thought they had celiac disease, then it was Lyme disease, then it was something else, and something else... It's one of those things that people can convince themselves they have, and there's no way to actually test for it. The…

My mother had lyme disease, which kicked off several years of auto-immune issues. Low energy and near-depression for years. No joke.

Any infection can trigger autoimmune issues though. It's a fear I know well - my dad has lupus and I have several (thankfully relatively minor) autoimmune conditions.
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