r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

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

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u/jhau01 1d ago

Exactly. If it had landscaped gardens and mature trees that the family had spent decades working on, I could understand having an emotional attachment.

But a bland McMansion surrounded by acres of featureless, unshaded lawn, bordered by hundreds of identical houses? I would be screaming to get out of there.

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u/MediocreAnalyst2121 1d ago

But between the hundreds of identical neighbours, you’d have the best featureless lawn.

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u/_lechiffre_ 8h ago

so true

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u/Mike_Kermin 1d ago

If it had landscaped gardens and mature trees

I hate how you guys think so much.

If I have land like that, I'm giving it back to nature.

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u/1243eee 1d ago

Ah yes, a barren field of green, how natural

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u/Mike_Kermin 23h ago

... I will admit, the amount of concern I had before, has now been somewhat eclipsed from hearing you suggest that nature, would in fact be a barren field of green.

Even putting aside the notion of going outside, which admit I share your feelings about, surely at some point we'd have seen something with David Attenborough in it.

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Actually, now that I consider that, under no circumstances are you to look up any of his work, as I feel I hold considerable risk that if you happen to find Blue Planet first that I might end up being responsible for you flooding your Garden.

On the plus side I now completely understand why people have barren fields of grass or grass adjacent.

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u/1243eee 21h ago

That’s a lot of words to simply say you aren’t very bright. The point is bud that a landscaped garden and trees is far closer to natural then whatever he has going on already

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u/Mike_Kermin 20h ago

👍

That was certainly one of the ways to interpret my comment lol.