Thank you for your up front reply but thinking back I’m sure you can see why I am cautious I’m a 10 year veteran of this site I’ve seen it all and nothing surprises me

The point was, why make it such a BORING front lawn?
The fact that they are that large is less surprising to me.
Maybe Americans just like the minimalist look. Europeans don't.
And I said IF we have a property of 10,000 square feet...
Than we are also pretty stacked with money, because land is expensive.
Maybe that is the reason why we don't waste it on useless grass.
But more important, we want to personalize our houses.
The American suburbs in the video looked like owners would still get lost
after living in their neighborhood for years.

You're right that most suburbs in Europe look more cramped, especially in The Netherlands. But that's because we have a 14 times higher population density.
But you're wrong that it's noisy. Most neighborhoods are not along the main roads.
The majority is build in area's of 50 to hundreds of houses on winding roads where
the maximum speed is 10 miles/hr and where children are playing.



Most of those houses are on around 1500 square feet plots.
Still, there are lots of houses on plots of 10,000 square feet too.
And I think they look less boring. But look for yourself:
only registered users can see external links

this is suburbs of detroit.
only registered users can see external links

san Fransico treat.
only registered users can see external links

new york
only registered users can see external links

none of which I would want to live in.
and trust me,this 6 acres,looks very little like the other homes around it.As i enjoy landscaping as a hobby,and did it for income for years.

Yea ,you can't cherry pick any particular part of the US and think it is all the same.
I just posted some random stuff above to indicate that not all suburbs are neat and clean and safe. Some suburbs I don't have enough ammo to drive thru and feel safe. Much less live there.
Some people like myself out here where I live have gardens, barns, livestock, hobbys ,workshops.
We raised dairy goats when i was growing up and now those sheds are used for storage of my gardening equipment and lawn Maintenace equipment i use here at home and to earn extra cash. There is no way I could live the life I choose in a suburb or city.I would go bonkers with nothing to do,no shop to do hobby work in,no garden large enough to fire up the tractor and till it and so on.
Those people that choose to live in those tiny domiciles, they are a entirely different breed and also have very little resources if they needed to provide for themselves.
I can grow some of my food if need be.
There is absolutly nothing to do in the big city but go there to get food or clothes or shop supplys. So noisy,dirty,congested.

In the 70's and 80's, we had a build style that was similar. They were called Vinex-neighborhoods. 'Vinex' was an abbreviation for 'Vierde Nota Ruimtelijke Ordening Extra', translating into 'Fourth Memorandum on Spatial Planning Extra'. It was a strategy of efficiently building safe, comfortable neighborhoods. They are similar in principle as your traditional suburbs, but not as spacious as your neighborhoods, because land is scarce and expensive. We sacrificed agricultural land for housing the rapidly growing population. They called it 'raked perfection'. Those Vinex suburbs are doing fine, crime is really low there and people are happy.
However, the Dutch stopped designing neighborhoods like that, because young people moved away and the Vinex-neighborhoods were aging. Young Dutch people found them incredibly boring. They wanted more vibrant, individualized, mixed planning neighborhoods, that don't look like they were designed by one architect with OCD and dropped down all at once. They preferred neighborhoods that look like a village that evolved over hundreds of years. Since the housing prices skyrocketed most young people don't care much anymore, as long as they have a roof over their head.
The yuppies still eagerly throw down 2 million for a 1200 square feet, 2 bedroom,
1 floor, 250 years old, renovated canal house apartment, with a roof terrace in the center of Amsterdam, over a Vinex-house that's twice as big, with a big garden,
close to the center of Zoetermeer, for a quarter to less than a third of the price.
[Zoetermeer is a 1000+ year old city, that was planned as an expansion area
in 1965 and therefore is known as the quintessential Vinex-location]

A classic Vinex-neighborhood:


I grew up in a Vinex-neighborhood. It was built in the late 70's, but designed a little less boring. Not by an autistic person with an angle ruler on graph paper, like on the aerial photo, but by someone with a bit more imagination. It had the winding roads, I talked about before, several playgrounds and areas with water and green. My girlfriend grew up in an house on top of the mall. When we went house shopping, we looked in Zoetermeer too. She said she would become very depressed in a Vinex-neighborhood and wanted something a bit more lively. We found something we like; a modern, well insulated house, with a big backyard (by Dutch standards), in a residential area that has evolved over the last 60 years. There is a big supermarket at crawling distance, several shops and restaurants at walking distance and several shopping centers a short bike ride away. Our house is however close to a main road with a maximum speed of 20 mph. The front of the house is noisy, which requires getting used to when sleeping with the window open, but the back garden is an oasis of tranquility with a wide area of water and green up to about 130 feet from our house, the next building 220 feet away and no public roads in between.

Phart, trying and succeeding are two different things. I just don't see what a man that was unsuccessful at maintaining several businesses could do to bring up the standard of living for many people with mediocre life's, and, he didn't. Trump went through a whole presidency, four years, and all he has to show for it is a bunch of misteps and possible illegal problems. The thing is that he's no longer president, even Marjorie Taylor Green said so.
Everyone is concerned with the money in their pocket, but, it's not the only concern. What about all that other stuff? What about abortion, you ask? If a woman needs or wants an abortion, for whatever reason, that is a legitimate concern for her.
What about if I'm black and need a mortgage, you ask? Banks use redlining to keep from lending money to blacks. It's much harder for me to own a home.
What about if I don't feel like a woman or you don't feel like a man, you ask? If that happened to me I would start acting like a man. Why? That's not the question. The question is why not? And who's business is it anyway except mine? If I want to use the men's bathroom and use a stall to pee, that's my choice.
These, and many more issues, are the reasons we, as a people, need to get involved with them. Your problem with men using Duck Tape to tape their package between their crack, is just that, your problem.
The area of the country I live in has several public and private trade schools that provide excellent training for many trades, and if that weren't enough, all the trade unions provide apprenticeships. The only hangup is getting young people to use them.

Phart, all of that, yes, but, the main reason is that Americans will prostitute themselves over $5. They rather buy foreign manufactured goods than be loyal to a home grown product. 👿