Lawns are for much more than just flexing. It's an outdoor part of your property which is flat and open enough to use for various activities and purposes. I don't know where people get such a cynical idea that this is THE reason anyone has lawns.

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jmbwell 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah this is all very regional too. Row houses in London and brownstones in New York or whatever won’t have front lawns as a function of density, but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own food, which is all tied up in different experiences of war, while certainly countryside estates are for form more than function, while post war housing in the midwestern US was in part a build-on-your-lot market with houses literally ordered from a Sears catalog…

There’s definitely more to the story and there are myriad factors.

	▲	jyounker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sears stopped making homes in 1942. They were strictly pre-WWII.

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asdfasvea 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wouldn't a non-grassy flat and open area serve the same purpose?

	▲	blipvert 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not sure that I’d want to lie down with a book on a slab of concrete.