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Imagine flying to other continents and discovering they divide land by natural geographic formations. Americans could never.
Idaho about that, actually.
You mean aside from a lot of our states, and the Texas-Mexico border, and portions of the US-Canada border?
I laughed, well played
I think they meant all those coasts that are man made. Still think we should have said no when they wanted to extend Florida so far out.
Do you mean squiggly lines by a drunk British man?
Hey those are fully intentionally drawn to ensure everyone has just enough ethnic and religious minorities to ensure they force those groups to be a problem for them. Also to screw the Kurds
I'm so happy that we Europeans have really come together over the years to fuck the Kurds.
True, but I was referring to copses of trees, creeks, hillsides, slabs of boulder, underground water. Things that are a pain in the ass to farm around so often affect the division of property lines and then the selling rates of land.
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
Does the area you live in not get deforested? We generally pull boulders and whatnot out of the ground when we have to in order to make more sellable plots
Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.
This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland. Often old farmland is used for development.
We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.
I guess I shouldn't speak for places I haven't lived, even here in the US. that sounds way less shitty than what I'm used to
There wasn't really any of that out in the prairie.
There's plenty of that in the prairie. it's a pain in the ass. unless you're living on land so old that generations before you did all the work getting it ready, which would also be when things were divided up
We use lots of natural borders as the delimiters of given states. The Mississippi River is a big one. You see it more out east than west IMHO.
Because only in the US are farm fields rectangular.
A good chunk of them are circular because they can automate watering easier that way.
Aaaaakshully...
It's sort of a mix of both. Some people like to include walking paths to make everything a little easier/nicer-looking.
But they call them squares
*only ones part of a shit industry are rectangular on an American scale
"Our Glorious Agricultural Fields" vs "Their Barbaric Farming Practices"
I'm American raised on farms in a flyover state. It would be "My barbaric practices" because I took part in it.
or you know. you're the main character and nothing about your life could ever be wrong
Those were divided over natural formations due to practical concerns (war and defensible positions), not out of some love of nature
probably, but the fact that it works out better for nature is still notable. also market forces behind checkerboard country are just reprehensible and will never have consideration for human life, let alone nature
Thank Thomas Jefferson for that brain damage. It has a lot to do with why most of our topsoil is now in the Gulf of Mexico.