The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

[u/Wonderfulhumanss]

[u/meowmeow_now]

The house is so expensive looking, why no garden or landscaping?

[u/Wizard_Of_Auz → u/meowmeow_now]

Im going to guess they're probably an ethnic family. They tend to have like ostentatious houses with big gates / walls and little to no attention paid to landscaping / garden. Im surprised they've not completely concreted the five acres they have.

[u/subywesmitch → u/Wizard_Of_Auz]

Either that or they just live inside all the time and they have no desire to spend any time outside gardening, playing, etc so they just leave it as grass

[u/amylouise0185 → u/meowmeow_now]

There will be a lemon tree and veggie patch in the backyard. That's enough

[u/WolfPlayz294 → u/meowmeow_now]

Right? My dream is a long driveway leading to a circle leading to a strip, with a fountain that cycles water

[u/APFernweh → u/meowmeow_now]

Expensive and ugly at the same time. We live in dark architectural times.

[u/obligatory-anxiety → u/meowmeow_now]

That’s work, I just have lawn at my house, and it’s a pretty nice house, some neighbours have landscaping and hedges and I wave to them as I take off on my motorcycle on the weekend to enjoy what I enjoy doing which is not landscaping.

[u/Fun_Researcher_69420 → u/obligatory-anxiety]

With the kind of money this house represents you can afford a gardener one or two days a week and a landscaping agency for the lawn and edging every few weeks.

[u/obligatory-anxiety → u/Fun_Researcher_69420]

Why though.

I have a yard guy come and mow once a month in winter and once a fortnight in summer a pool guy once a month, just because “you can” doesn’t mean you have too.

My neighbours had trees that filled their valleys and gutters after 5 years of cleaning them out and water ingress if they didn’t they cut them down. If you owned it you could concrete slab the whole block if you desired.

[u/chimneyswallow → u/obligatory-anxiety]

Better micro climate. Privacy. Ecological useful.

[u/Fun_Researcher_69420 → u/chimneyswallow]

I do forget that some people think an entire desert of a featureless lawn, or a concrete parking lot, is attractive. People are weird.

[u/obligatory-anxiety → u/chimneyswallow]

Different strokes for
Different folks, I’m a stone’s throw from a whole pine forest why do I want to have a storm risk next to my house, or a termite risk.

[u/meowmeow_now → u/obligatory-anxiety]

They’re not mowing that lawns themselves. People with smaller nice house have some landscaping they hire out to do maintenance.