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?

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Just enough money to buy fixxer uppers but not enough energy or money to get them properly fixed, it’s kind of like the sam vimes boot theory of economics or some such, my brother really didn’t expect to have the cheap trucks he bought to fix within a year but then he has no motivation after work to fix work on them and too much pride or not enough money to go to a shop