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Originally Posted by Crawford
I've heard about this Italian-American aversion to street trees and greenery, anecdotally. Had a coworker with a dispute with Italian-American neighbors about tree coverage and landscaping. Also heard about Italian-American neighbors protesting the city installing street trees.
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A certain class of Québécois French Canadians seems to be like this as well.
My city requires homeowners to have a tree out front with a minimal trunk diameter, and so many people either ignore it, or cut down mature trees when they buy a house, or plant some rump tree that is just barely compliant with the municipal regulation.
I really like trees (even big ones in front and around a house in general), but when I ask people about this they'll say that they don't want trees because "you can't see the house from the street!"
Some people even subtly "suggest" that I cut mine down for this reason.