Obviously some don’t get this post and haven’t had to deal with bad housing development planning. Or more so, devolopers didn’t care and 35 years ago the old growth randomly grown forest trees were cute. 35 years later they are huge poorly rooted and growing in odd directions now that the sun is having its way after you spend a few grand to have them thinned. My neighborhood has buried lines, but it still doesn’t remove the danger and mess they shed every year. Every fall is multiple weekends of leaf cleaning. I love nature and trees, but being smart about building houses/shelter (that BTW is one of the 3 basic needs) is very important. As a young property buyer 25 years ago I didn’t quite realize the hassle they would become.
Of course this type of development has now produced insane, overbearing local government regulation that has it so you can’t add one square foot of made made surface on your property without spending loads of cash for surveys and building some sort of water catch system to take care of run off into the drainage system.
Sometimes we have to vent. No harm no foul….
Update:
I forgot to add neighbors who don’t get the problem and won’t spend the money to hire a tree cutting crew and their trees on their property are more of a threat to my house then theirs. And there’s nothing you can do about it. If I trim the limbs growing over my property and kill their tree I’m liable. Yet, if their tree falls on my house they have no liability. That’s what insurance is for I’m told.
Also, I imagine many people have no clue how heavy that limb that doesn’t seem very big relative to the whole tree is. When we were getting one of the hefty 7 foot diameter trunk Oaks removed when the limbs would hit the ground the whole earth would shake. And I was being diplomatic about cost. We probably shelled out 10 grand + so far. That’s not including the dozen for more 4 inch diameter saplings I personally cut down that the previous owner let grow because they liked the shade or hated landscaping.
