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?

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    13·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      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:

      • A 1960-ish era chainsaw
      • A car battery
      • Rusty pipe
      • Jugs full of what looks like motor oil
      • Empty plastic bottles
      • A large roll of some sort of material like landscaping cloth that is overrun with moss & roots now.
      • A rechargeable battery for power tools
      • What appears to be the bed cover for a pickup truck
      • Loads of other smaller plastic scraps
      • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        No, the big metal barrels are all being used by the hobos living under the elevated train lines in the city.