• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I don’t think the house’ plot is weird, but it is weird that the surrounding fields don’t have vegetation. EnglandBelgium does not need to be a steppe.

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      8 months ago

      They seem to be freshly ploughed, something will grow there, eventually.

      A house with a narrow strip for a garden is a bit weird though

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        8 months ago

        IIRC that’s a house in Zaventem, aka Brussels Airport. So, not a great spot place to build a house.

        I don’t remember the exact story, but that was supposed to be row housing… but ain’t no-one building any more houses there.

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        Looks more like harrowed or cultivated than ploughed.

        What I initially meant was that the fields are large-ish and could have more and better buffer strips among them.

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        A house with a narrow strip for a garden is a bit weird though

        House. Garden. Soccer field. Reading grove.

        Perfection.

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          It refers to the annexes you see growing out of the back of the house. People used to (and sometimes still do) start with a modest house, and then as time went on and money came in, build out into the yard, adding a new kitchen, toilet, shed, veranda, etc.

          It has since also come to refer to things that get extended and patched up over time without a lot of coherence or forethought, like our tax codes (they just add rules, bonuses, penalties, etc. on top of the baseline instead of doing a thorough tax reform)