Glad to know I'm not alone. I live in a "wimbledon lawn" neighborhood in the NE US. Along with that comes vast caravans of clanking landscaping vehicles, a near constant drone of lawnmowers, leaf blowers, weed whackers, etc., and tiny yellow flags stuck into lawns with X marks covering pictograms of children and dogs.

The kicker: it's a lake community, where you're supposed to be able to swim and fish, and for the past two years the lake has been declared a biohazard* by late summer. Every month or so they treat the lake with some chemical cocktail that renders it "dangerous for swimming" for a week in an effort to fight the algae blooms.

Truly insane...I have to get out of here. And of course I'm an outcast for keeping my lawn all-natural. I do succumb to keeping it mowed so I'm not driven out of the neighborhood.

* blue-green algae if I remember correctly.