I’m visiting a rural part of the southern US, and I have noticed that about 2/3 of the houses outside the town have yards full of cars and tractors in various states of disrepair, as well as tons of other miscellaneous stuff. Why is that? Is it kind of a culture of self-reliance and a supply of spare parts? Some other reason?
Junk removal is expensive and if you’re outside of a municipality all trash pickup is done by private arrangement.
A lot of people way out in the boonies with a decent amount of land will dig a trench and just dump their trash in it. Great for groundwater I’m sure.
Among other things, since moving to a more rural part of our state, we have uncovered these items that I assume the previous owners dumped in the woods around us:
Also, burning it in a pit or those big metal barrels.
No, the big metal barrels are all being used by the hobos living under the elevated train lines in the city.